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Thank you for being so very informative. I am new to Japanese and you have cleared up many misconceptions. My only problem with your videos is the background music which sometimes interferes with what I think I hear you say. What you say is so very important! You are very clear and concise. Thank you! Keep these videos coming!
I'm German, and I find Japanese pronunciation pretty easy. Since I'm from Bavaria, the Southeastern part of Germany, I'm used to pronouncing the ら the same way as Japanese or Spanish do. In my opinion, the tricky part in learning Japanese is the pitch accent, though. Since many Western languages are stress accent languages, the concept itself is new to us Westerners.
I hated Spanish speakers when I was living in Tokyo. These newbies would come waltzing in with little to no studying and blow me and my years of studying Japanese out of the water with just a few words.
I'm a native Russian speaker (live in Moldova), and for me Japanese fonetics sounds very pleasant and clean (English is much more different and complicated).
What about the “く” in between ？For example 沢山(たくさん)、学生(がくせい)、祝日(しゅくじつ)、浅草(あさくさ). People often say these words with a heavily stressed K in the middle instead of a ku. For instance, 沢山 is pronounced more like takksan instead of ta-ku-san .
@@mochirealjapanese3430 Perhaps heavily stressed K is not the proper description of what I think I hear. What I meant was, the “ku” in those words has a short “u” sound when I heard it. For example when people say 沢山, I think it sounds like “たくっさん”. Compared with く in the beginning (such as くろい), the くin the middle seems to be shorter to me.😅
Hi. This phenomenon is what is called "devoicing of vowels." Devoicing means making a vowel or voiced consonant voiceless. For example, if you devoice zzz sound, it would be sss sound. Also d sound becomes t sound, b sound becomes p sound, g sound becomes k sound, and so on. These are all consonants, but vowels could be also devoiced. It's like a whisper. In whispers, there are sounds, but voices don't exist. So this is called devoiced vowels. In Tokyo area, vowels i and u are often devoiced, as you mentioned. KU sounds of tak(u)san, gak(u)see, Asak(u)sa are all devoiced, but ku sound of shukujitsu is not devoiced, rather U sound of SHU is devoiced, like sh(u)kujitsu. You could consult OJAD website (Prosody Tutor Suzuki-kun) for the devoiced vowels, word accents, and sentence intonations.
For me as Malay Speaker,I Don't Any Any Problems Speaking Japanese and It is Easy Cause There Some Japanese Word Has Same Pronunciation as Malay..Eg Mata in Japanese means Again but In Malay it means Eye...But For Me Im Really Confuse About Pitch Accent Pattern..
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Thank you for being so very informative. I am new to Japanese and you have cleared up many misconceptions. My only problem with your videos is the background music which sometimes interferes with what I think I hear you say. What you say is so very important! You are very clear and concise. Thank you! Keep these videos coming!
I like it very much
ありがとうございます，もち先生! いいクラスですね 🤗
You are incredibly underrated. Thank you for being so kind and making these informational videos !! You have really helped my Japanese! ありがとうございます!
Thank yooou!☺️
As a beginer learner of Nihongo, this video was very helpful for proper pronunciation. Good job! Arigato gozaimasu.
I just discovered this channel, new subscriber here! ありがとうございます！
ありがとうーー！！！
I'm German, and I find Japanese pronunciation pretty easy. Since I'm from Bavaria, the Southeastern part of Germany, I'm used to pronouncing the ら the same way as Japanese or Spanish do. In my opinion, the tricky part in learning Japanese is the pitch accent, though. Since many Western languages are stress accent languages, the concept itself is new to us Westerners.
Thank you for your helpful information. I am learning a lot about Japanese culture and language. 🌸
Thank you❤️🔥
As always great content, your videos are getting better and better each time, keep it up !
arigatooo!🥺
I hated Spanish speakers when I was living in Tokyo. These newbies would come waltzing in with little to no studying and blow me and my years of studying Japanese out of the water with just a few words.
😂
50音の発音は口元をアップにしたバージョンで口の動きや口の形をより確認しやすくした動画もアップしたほうがいいかなと思いますね。😊
it was really helpful video, thank you i am learning a lot😊
arigatooo!
As Arabic native speaker, I find it easy to speak most of the Japanese words since my language have all the sounds used in Japanese.
I'm a native Russian speaker (live in Moldova), and for me Japanese fonetics sounds very pleasant and clean (English is much more different and complicated).
really?☺️
What about the “く” in between ？For example 沢山(たくさん)、学生(がくせい)、祝日(しゅくじつ)、浅草(あさくさ).
People often say these words with a heavily stressed K in the middle instead of a ku. For instance, 沢山 is pronounced more like takksan instead of ta-ku-san .
hmm, I never feel that way and we think we put equal stress👀
@@mochirealjapanese3430 Perhaps heavily stressed K is not the proper description of what I think I hear. What I meant was, the “ku” in those words has a short “u” sound when I heard it. For example when people say 沢山, I think it sounds like “たくっさん”. Compared with く in the beginning (such as くろい), the くin the middle seems to be shorter to me.😅
Hi. This phenomenon is what is called "devoicing of vowels." Devoicing means making a vowel or voiced consonant voiceless. For example, if you devoice zzz sound, it would be sss sound. Also d sound becomes t sound, b sound becomes p sound, g sound becomes k sound, and so on. These are all consonants, but vowels could be also devoiced. It's like a whisper. In whispers, there are sounds, but voices don't exist. So this is called devoiced vowels. In Tokyo area, vowels i and u are often devoiced, as you mentioned. KU sounds of tak(u)san, gak(u)see, Asak(u)sa are all devoiced, but ku sound of shukujitsu is not devoiced, rather U sound of SHU is devoiced, like sh(u)kujitsu.
You could consult OJAD website (Prosody Tutor Suzuki-kun) for the devoiced vowels, word accents, and sentence intonations.
For me as Malay Speaker,I Don't Any Any Problems Speaking Japanese and It is Easy Cause There Some Japanese Word Has Same Pronunciation as Malay..Eg Mata in Japanese means Again but In Malay it means Eye...But For Me Im Really Confuse About Pitch Accent Pattern..
as spanish speaker, yeah pronunciation is not one of my big problems, but even with that I loved the video :D
but for me Spanish pronunciation is difficult😂
@@mochirealjapanese3430 is really similar you can do it!
Hiii Mochi-san, I'm Turkish and I have a good ear so my pronouncation is pretty good 😂 but I'm putting like for you anyway. がんばって ❤️
ありがとう❤️
Hello sensei 🌄
Ssw video please
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Dang, mochi せんせい calling us out 😮
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The most difficult syllables for me (a swede) to pronounce are shi, ji and chi. Very hard to hear the difference.
True! it's simmilar
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Looking super cute 🥰
thanks!!!
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6:40 I prefer ありがとうだってばよ 😆
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Jlpt N2 レベルを勉強しているのにこのビデオを見る😂
うれしい！ぜひ毎回見てください😂
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Kawaii!
arigatooo!
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U r so beautiful