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This is so helpful! As a self learner, it's hard to figure out the right pronunciation without an instructor. This helps so much, especially since you show the proper mouth shapes. どうもありがとうございます
I never thought to read them on the horizontal so all the sounds are the same. Really helps me out. Thank you. I literally practice my vowel sounds in front of the mirror, and now that I know my lips don’t have to move much when putting consonance with the vowels, I think I can pronounce things easier. I will keep practicing.
This is easily one of the most well-put-together and thoughtful videos on Japanese.. why does this beautiful, kind, graceful person not have more subscribers and likes and recognition for the work she puts into this.. amazing… and in just a 13 minute video..
Thank you so much. I was using a guide from a website called tofugu. I finished the reading hiragana section. I moved on to the pronunciation of hiragana and found their guide on that somewhat hard to follow. I'll use this for now. It's good practice saying the different kana vertically and horizontally and the fact you pronounce them as well helps so much. Life saver :)
Not many people are aware that reading hiragana horizontally actually helps them understand how to read. I’m glad you found it helpful! Thank you for your comment 😊✨
Same here. I was using the Tofugu guide as well and I did well with the vowels but once I tried to take the test, I kept getting stumped becuase it focuses so much on the Romanji letters vs the characters. This is sooooo much more helpful.
Thank you so much. This lesson is exceedingly useful. Your vocalisation approach is very professionally done. You have certainly given me the confidence to pronounce the hiragana accurately. I hope you can do another video lesson on the modified syllables to cover the g, z, d, b, p, kya, kyu, kyo (etc), and the double consonants kk, pp, ss, tt. Please do cover the subject of long vowels too. I am struggling with all these. Thank you.
Thank u so much for this video！ As a foreign people it is really so hard for me to distinguish the differences of 「r」and 「u」sound with them in my mother language. But your video make it super clear to understand ! Expecially the part about the shape of mouth and the position of tongue.They really help me a lot!!! Thank u soooo much for filming this pronounciation tutorial!!!!
Thank you for saying that. Here's another tip for ん at the end of the sentence. ruclips.net/video/EyYyieWzVK0/видео.html A little bit more detailed explanation is there, just in case if you need.
I started learning 日本語 like a month ago, and I have to say this is tremendously helpful! Just about a week ago I discovered pitch accent and got more interested on the pronunciation side of the language, so now aside learning new words, phrases and Kanji, I try to practice this kind of things as much as I can. ふみさん、ありがとうございました！
You've just started! Welcome to Japanese language learning world! Pitch accent is important when you want to sound natural. I think listening a lot natural Japanese helps! Ganbattekudasai😄
For people who are Arab just telling y’a that yes “shi” does look like the letter “ل” in Arabic but a reversed that may help you, because it helped me and I’m Arab to remember it
It’s not difficult for french 🤗 It sounds very similar when we "roll the r’s" over a french text (as opera singers or as artists would sing until the mid XXth century). It’s exactly something between L and R
My native language is English. I've always had trouble rolling my Rs for Spanish until I started trying to pronounce the R row in Hirigana. Now it's hard NOT to roll my Rs 😂 Makes sense right?
We use these so much in portuguese that I thought it was strange that people couldn't quite pronouce it. I have dificulties with this closed "u" sound. It's so similar to what I speak everyday that's it's hard not to say it my way
An absolutely superb lesson - thank you so much. One small point (I don't know if other viewers would agree) - I find the background music rather distracting. However, your presentation is first class. Thank you again.
@@twitchkakyotoVODS I've found it really helpful! I've been using this channel and Lingodeer and I've gotten to putting together basic sentences and learnt both Katakana and Hiragana in about 4 months?
Wow, this is fantastic! Especially how you described "shi." Mouth first shaped like "i" (eeee) and then say the vowel. This was really helpful for me! Thanks.
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Thanks for this. I was saying it wrong in my head. I'm curious why the romaji is 'fu' instead of 'hu'. Is it a little more like 'f' than the other 'h' syllables?
Hi, Leo-san, good point! I've never given a thought to that, but actually, it makes sense. は、へ、ほ 's sounds are made at the glottis, and ひ's sound is made at the soft palate, but ふ's sound is made by the lips. F sound is made by the lip and the teeth, so the place is almost the same. Maybe your theory is correct ...
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Thank you. I guess ふ's sound is almost an English 'f' but the teeth don't actually touch the lip. It seems all these consonants are just breath, but with ふ the sound is more forward than the others. Would you agree?
Hello ふみさん。thank you for making this video, it’s very useful. I have a few questions. 1 you said fu sounds like blowing a candle very gentle so I wonder what it sounds like when you say it loud 2 how to pronounce hiragana with tenten especially ざ じ ず ぢ づ Thank you for any help that you are able to provide 🙏🏻
Hi, thank you for the questions! 1) Blowing a candle is about aspiration and the shape of you mouth. So even if you say ふ loud, the vowel う is said loud. I hope this explanation makes sense. 2) I'll make a short about those. So could you wait a little more?
Thank you, this video was very helpful! But I still have a question. I wanted to learn hiragana and I also saw rows with g, z, d, b and p. Are you supposed to learn them too or not?
Thank you ma’am for this video. But I am still confused about the sound of the row R. While pronouncing the “ri” in the row we say “li” but while saying thank you in Japanese I’ve heard it as arigato where “li” is pronounced as “ri”. Could you please explain this? Thank you
Hi! Thank you for the question. Japanese R is neither English "r" nor "l." I explain what the R row like here in another way. Could you take a look please? It might help. ruclips.net/video/kzDdvQtpRAM/видео.html 3:22 you'll see ら sound, then り sound.
Stefan san, Thank you for asking, but I'm sorry, right now I'm not accepting new students. I might in the future, but I can't say anything right now. I hope you can find a good teacher.
오늘은 쉬운 내용이라서 일본어공부보다 영어 듣기공부가 되었습니다.감사합니다.😊 今日は易しい内容なので日本語勉強より英語聞き取り勉強になりました。ありがとうございます😂 Today was easy content, so I studied English listening rather than Japanese.Thank you.😅
Wait, what? The ん sound, for example in ありません, doesn't touch your mouth? I thought it was the same sound that an English "n" makes. I'm really glad you pointed it out! ありがとうございますふみさん
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally very much so! I struggled with words like べんり all the time because I wasn't able to understand how to get from the ん sound to the り sound. I'm still not sure I completely understand the し sound tbh but that's my fault lol Btw: if I'm correct, the u sound, for example in ふ, seems to be pretty close to the German ü like in "müde".🤔
thank you for the video!! it is actually my first step(lesson) for learning Japanese and it was quite easy because I am Uzbek. In the Uzbek language, there is almost the same pronunciation!!! But for English people, there will be some problems with pronunciations. THANKS AGAIN, It was helpful!!!
Hi, I tried listening to Uzbek with this video. ruclips.net/video/YLoOKX7gZHQ/видео.html There are a lot of sounds which Japanese doesn't have, so I guess Japanese sounds are easy for you, but not vise versa! Thank you for the comment. I'm glad to hear that this video was helpful😊
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally I think the Uzbek language is the most difficult language for learning 😅. I am Uzbek, but I don't know Grammer at all. And for learning this language you need spend about 3-4 year!!! 🤯 even though you cannot fully understand Uzbek because in every region of Uzbekistan they have own pronunciation of language!!😅
If you do self-study, genki has explanation in English. But which book is good depends on the person, so if you can go to a big bookstore, compare books there and choose one by yourself 😊
Wonderful video. Do Japanese children sing these characters in the same way that English speaking children sing the alphabet? At different points in the video, it struck me that there was something melodic about what you were saying -- beyond the obvious related sounds.
Children don't sing but just say these in order when they get in school. I guess one reason is that あ stands for あ sound in Japanese, but A(ei) doesn't stand for [ei] sound in English, and "a" can be read in many ways, so they have to know the name of the alphabet. The melody is called "pitch accent." Japanese is a pitch-accent language, so the melody is actually very important. My latest video deals with that. ruclips.net/video/vC7M6Mv1TgI/видео.html
I know it is just me, but when I listen to Lady instructors on Japanese letters or words, I just can't understand how they are pronouncing the harder to say letters. I think I try to say the same thing into a Google Translator, and it just does not work correctly Example the "R" sounds. To me the lady teacher kind of sounds like an muted L sound and using the tongue. I try these sounds into the Google translator and it does not work. If I do a muted Spanish R sound with my tongue, it does work. Tried words like Roku, Gorufu, Bare, and so on. I will keep practicing, but some letters just don't make sense how the teacher is saying them.
so grateful for this, thank you! My 4 and a half year old was so curious because she loves Studio Ghibli and asked about the writing. I found this after she also asked about the menu writing at a Japanese ramen and sushi shop we ate at! I don't want to think it is añl Kanji, I hope she will learn many languages and build safe bridges among people, we all have so much in common, down to our bones.
wow, your 4 year old is interested in other languages? Wonderful!! I’m sure she will be connected with a lot of people from other countries in the future. Good luck with her🥰✨
I think for the らりるれろ and also for ふ the only thing that helps is lots of listening. I watched many videos but for me it's the same every time. I understand when it's explained and I can copy the sound. But when it comes to an example suddenly it sounds completely different to me. In this video for example, ふ is explained to sound like "hu", not "fu". In the example word ふじさん it suddenly sounds like "fu". I can also see the lips touch each other as they do when you say "fu". Maybe it's difficult for a japanese native speaker to think about these sounds from a non japanese native mind. In the end there has to be a reason why ふ is written as "fu" instead of "hu".
I checked the video, but my lips aren't touching when I'm saying ふじさん 😅 And it's ふ, not "hu." I think romaji makes you confused and prevent you from hearing the real sound. It's best to think with ひらがな or カタカナ. Ganbattekudasai〜 😄
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This is so helpful! As a self learner, it's hard to figure out the right pronunciation without an instructor. This helps so much, especially since you show the proper mouth shapes. どうもありがとうございます
I’m glad that my video worked for you 😁こちらこそ、コメントありがとうございました😊
あなたのアイコンを見て、とても見覚えがあるのですが、野村さんでしょうか？
I never thought to read them on the horizontal so all the sounds are the same. Really helps me out. Thank you. I literally practice my vowel sounds in front of the mirror, and now that I know my lips don’t have to move much when putting consonance with the vowels, I think I can pronounce things easier.
I will keep practicing.
ありがとうございます。
This is easily one of the most well-put-together and thoughtful videos on Japanese.. why does this beautiful, kind, graceful person not have more subscribers and likes and recognition for the work she puts into this.. amazing… and in just a 13 minute video..
Wow, that’s so sweet. Thank you so much…✨😊
This is my thinking too, but I couldn't have put it any better! 🏆
This is so clear and helpful, thank you
Thank you for saying that!
Thank you so much. I was using a guide from a website called tofugu. I finished the reading hiragana section. I moved on to the pronunciation of hiragana and found their guide on that somewhat hard to follow. I'll use this for now. It's good practice saying the different kana vertically and horizontally and the fact you pronounce them as well helps so much. Life saver :)
Not many people are aware that reading hiragana horizontally actually helps them understand how to read.
I’m glad you found it helpful!
Thank you for your comment 😊✨
Same here. I was using the Tofugu guide as well and I did well with the vowels but once I tried to take the test, I kept getting stumped becuase it focuses so much on the Romanji letters vs the characters. This is sooooo much more helpful.
Japanese do not only do but they pour there soul at what they do this is the wonderful essence of Japanese culture.
💜本当にありがとうございます！フミ先生。😊
That's the best explanation I've ever seen. Thank you.
Glad to hear that.Thank you 😊😊
I’m a native Spanish speaker. It seems like Japanese pronounces R the same way as in Spanish so i had no trouble saying らりるれろ. Very cool lesson!
I've heard that Japanese people are good at pronouncing Spanish, so yes, the other way around is true! 😃
Thank you so much. This lesson is exceedingly useful. Your vocalisation approach is very professionally done. You have certainly given me the confidence to pronounce the hiragana accurately. I hope you can do another video lesson on the modified syllables to cover the g, z, d, b, p, kya, kyu, kyo (etc), and the double consonants kk, pp, ss, tt. Please do cover the subject of long vowels too. I am struggling with all these. Thank you.
A Super-Charged lesson, but so graceful, and easy to understand. 丁寧語
Thank u so much for this video！
As a foreign people it is really so hard for me to distinguish the differences of 「r」and 「u」sound with them in my mother language.
But your video make it super clear to understand ! Expecially the part about the shape of mouth and the position of tongue.They really help me a lot!!!
Thank u soooo much for filming this pronounciation tutorial!!!!
Thank you so much for saying this. It means a lot to me.
Thank you for the comment ☺️
Excellent explanation! ありがとうございました！
Exactly the answer I was looking for regarding pronunciation of the N sound. Thank you very much!
Thank you for saying that.
Here's another tip for ん at the end of the sentence.
ruclips.net/video/EyYyieWzVK0/видео.html
A little bit more detailed explanation is there, just in case if you need.
I started learning 日本語 like a month ago, and I have to say this is tremendously helpful! Just about a week ago I discovered pitch accent and got more interested on the pronunciation side of the language, so now aside learning new words, phrases and Kanji, I try to practice this kind of things as much as I can. ふみさん、ありがとうございました！
You've just started! Welcome to Japanese language learning world! Pitch accent is important when you want to sound natural. I think listening a lot natural Japanese helps! Ganbattekudasai😄
I'm really happy to understand how to pronounce らりるれろ
ふみ先生教えてくれてありがとうございます
Seeing the shapes of the mouth and hear the sounds for each prononciation is so helpful. Well done!
thank you so much!!! you explaining where the tongue should meet for the R column was when i finally figured it out,, ありがと！！
Good to hear. I’m happy for you😁 Thank you!
This was very helpful, thank you!!
Thank you 😊
I'm now able to imitate the sound of those letters better. Thanks for your helpful video!
Thank you so much, please continue teaching, thank you so much again
Its relaxing hearing,studying with your videos,simple,direct or straightforward and clear.
Wow, a lot of compliments 😳
Thank you 🥰
Thank you, this is beyond helpful. And no way has explained the 'r' row as well as you did!
Glad to hear that! Thank you😄
Wow! Thank you so much for this! ❤
actually really helpful especially ふ and ん thanks
Glad to hear that 😊
Thank you. That is exactly what I needed. I was getting confused with the sound of the hiragana. Great help this!
This helped so much with my pronunciation thank you so much.
I'm glad to hear that! Thank you for the comment!
Thank you 🙏🏼
For people who are Arab just telling y’a that yes “shi” does look like the letter “ل” in Arabic but a reversed that may help you, because it helped me and I’m Arab to remember it
Hi from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
Thanks for your effort to explain articulation and underline specifics ! Most videos don’t
Thank you 😊
らりるれる always get me
😅
It’s not difficult for french 🤗 It sounds very similar when we "roll the r’s" over a french text (as opera singers or as artists would sing until the mid XXth century). It’s exactly something between L and R
My native language is English. I've always had trouble rolling my Rs for Spanish until I started trying to pronounce the R row in Hirigana. Now it's hard NOT to roll my Rs 😂 Makes sense right?
We use these so much in portuguese that I thought it was strange that people couldn't quite pronouce it. I have dificulties with this closed "u" sound. It's so similar to what I speak everyday that's it's hard not to say it my way
Nice
Your video is so helpful for me, thank you for this.
Can I get the PDF of alphabet chart please.😅
ふみ 先生
I'm starting to feel more confident to speak Japanese thanks to you
ホントに ありがとうございます
Glad to hear it! これからも、がんばってくださいね😊
Thank you for this video, you are lovely and the video is very well done and very helpful!
Thank you !!😊
just started to learn japanese and this is very helpful. thank you so much!
I'm glad to hear it is helpful. I wish all the best in your Japanese learning journey!✨
This was extremely helpful. Thank you very much 😭😭.
Glad to hear that! Thank you 😊
Thank you very much! Your lesson is the best and the explanation is so clear and professional! If I’ll speak japanese, it mostly thanks for you!
Wow, thank you, but if you’ll speak, it’s on you😁😁
An absolutely superb lesson - thank you so much. One small point (I don't know if other viewers would agree) - I find the background music rather distracting. However, your presentation is first class. Thank you again.
I'm sorry about that. Some people pointed it out, so I don't use background music anymore.
I’m just beginning to learn Japanese, I love your videos thank you ☺️
I'm glad to hear that☺️ Thank you! Good luck with your learning journey !!😄
How far have you gotten, and this this channel a big help for beginners?
@@twitchkakyotoVODS I've found it really helpful! I've been using this channel and Lingodeer and I've gotten to putting together basic sentences and learnt both Katakana and Hiragana in about 4 months?
このビデオ、素晴らしい発音教材ですね！ありがとうございます！
ありがとうございます！
そう思っていただけてうれしいです🥰
thank you you are such a good teacher 😃
Thank you!! 😄✨
Wow, this is fantastic! Especially how you described "shi." Mouth first shaped like "i" (eeee) and then say the vowel. This was really helpful for me! Thanks.
My pleasure😊✨
I always got problem with the ん glad I found this channel ありがとう☺️
Thank you 😁✨
Oh this is a life saver, I’m using a textbook to learn and doesn’t really include the pronunciation thank you!
My pleasure!😄
Helped a lot!!
Good😊
Thank you so much.
Your English is also very good
Is it your first or second language?
10 months late to the party, but damn, this is the best guide out there
Thanks a lot :D
My pleasure! Thank you for your comment☺️
you are very good! Brazillian portuguese has similar phonemes, but I was having a hard time with "fu". Thanks a lot!
I'm glad to hear that! Thank you for the comment ☺️
ありがとう先生❤️❤️
どういたしまして😊✨
The r/l always confused me. Now i can practice that sound. Didn't know about 'fu' being pronounced as 'hu' still.
Thanks for the video!
I'm glad that now you know the difference! My name is Fumi, and not many people who speak English pronounce my name correctly.
Thanks for the comment😁
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Thanks for this. I was saying it wrong in my head. I'm curious why the romaji is 'fu' instead of 'hu'. Is it a little more like 'f' than the other 'h' syllables?
Hi, Leo-san, good point!
I've never given a thought to that, but actually, it makes sense.
は、へ、ほ 's sounds are made at the glottis, and ひ's sound is made at the soft palate, but ふ's sound is made by the lips. F sound is made by the lip and the teeth, so the place is almost the same. Maybe your theory is correct ...
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Thank you. I guess ふ's sound is almost an English 'f' but the teeth don't actually touch the lip. It seems all these consonants are just breath, but with ふ the sound is more forward than the others. Would you agree?
Thank you so much for this video, it really help me a lot, ありがとうございます
Good to hear it. Thank you!!😊
Hello ふみさん。thank you for making this video, it’s very useful. I have a few questions.
1 you said fu sounds like blowing a candle very gentle so I wonder what it sounds like when you say it loud
2 how to pronounce hiragana with tenten especially ざ じ ず ぢ づ
Thank you for any help that you are able to provide 🙏🏻
Hi, thank you for the questions!
1) Blowing a candle is about aspiration and the shape of you mouth. So even if you say ふ loud, the vowel う is said loud. I hope this explanation makes sense.
2) I'll make a short about those. So could you wait a little more?
Thank you! Very useful for me.
Thank YOU! I’m glad to hear that 😊
Thank you, this video was very helpful! But I still have a question.
I wanted to learn hiragana and I also saw rows with g, z, d, b and p. Are you supposed to learn them too or not?
Yes, you have to learn them too.
I'll make a video about them. Thank you for reminding me of that
Thank you for the video! This helps a lot!😄
Thank you!☺️
thank you much for the video. it was totally helpfulllll
Start learning Japanese today, and your video is so helpful! Thank you so much!
Wow, you found me on your first day! Ganbattene :)
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally I'll do my best!
Thank you ma’am for this video. But I am still confused about the sound of the row R. While pronouncing the “ri” in the row we say “li” but while saying thank you in Japanese I’ve heard it as arigato where “li” is pronounced as “ri”. Could you please explain this? Thank you
Hi! Thank you for the question.
Japanese R is neither English "r" nor "l."
I explain what the R row like here in another way.
Could you take a look please? It might help.
ruclips.net/video/kzDdvQtpRAM/видео.html
3:22 you'll see ら sound, then り sound.
this helped me when I was learning. say two d's together closesly like d d, your tongue almost bounces from d to another d.
Thank you so much for this video, it's really helpful!
Could you do a video where you explain also how to pronunce g z j b p and d?
It might take a while, but I will definitely make that video😁
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Thank you!!
Thank u so much for this video😊
Thank you it helps me
Thank you so much for this! This was brilliant! Do you give private lessons?
Stefan san, Thank you for asking, but I'm sorry, right now I'm not accepting new students. I might in the future, but I can't say anything right now. I hope you can find a good teacher.
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Alright. Thank you. Have a wonderful day.
오늘은 쉬운 내용이라서 일본어공부보다 영어 듣기공부가 되었습니다.감사합니다.😊
今日は易しい内容なので日本語勉強より英語聞き取り勉強になりました。ありがとうございます😂
Today was easy content, so I studied English listening rather than Japanese.Thank you.😅
そういう勉強もできるんですね！😂 いろいろ役立ててもらえてうれしいです！
new subcriber. love your teaching style!
Thank you, and welcome to my channel✨
Thank you
What a beautiful discovery this diamond of a lady is! 😊
Wow, thank you!!✨
oh thank you so much for explanation!!!
Sure! Thank you for leaving your comment
Excellent sensei 😊
Miss your voice is too sweet...🎀
Sensei❤
ありがとうございました
どういたしまして！
So basically the pronunciation for the following r sequence is (la - di- du-de- ro)? Correct.
Thanks for the video
My pleasure 🥰
Until I saw this video, there are only a few Hiragana words that I know. I was like:
なに ?!?
Wait, what? The ん sound, for example in ありません, doesn't touch your mouth? I thought it was the same sound that an English "n" makes. I'm really glad you pointed it out! ありがとうございますふみさん
I’m glad my advice was helpful 😁😁👍
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally very much so! I struggled with words like べんり all the time because I wasn't able to understand how to get from the ん sound to the り sound.
I'm still not sure I completely understand the し sound tbh but that's my fault lol
Btw: if I'm correct, the u sound, for example in ふ, seems to be pretty close to the German ü like in "müde".🤔
thank you for the video!! it is actually my first step(lesson) for learning Japanese and it was quite easy because I am Uzbek. In the Uzbek language, there is almost the same pronunciation!!! But for English people, there will be some problems with pronunciations. THANKS AGAIN, It was helpful!!!
Hi, I tried listening to Uzbek with this video.
ruclips.net/video/YLoOKX7gZHQ/видео.html
There are a lot of sounds which Japanese doesn't have, so I guess Japanese sounds are easy for you, but not vise versa!
Thank you for the comment. I'm glad to hear that this video was helpful😊
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally I think the Uzbek language is the most difficult language for learning 😅. I am Uzbek, but I don't know Grammer at all. And for learning this language you need spend about 3-4 year!!! 🤯 even though you cannot fully understand Uzbek because in every region of Uzbekistan they have own pronunciation of language!!😅
Thank you so much
Oh, thank YOU for leaving a comment!
Thank you sense
my pleasure 😊
will u do video about takakana too?
2:11 starts here
It helped me to after rhis session i can speak hiragana clearly ありがとうママそれは私を大いに助けてくれました arigatou
I'm so glad to hear that! がんばってね！😊
Mam i want to know which book i should buy to be more fluent in japanese pls tell me
If you do self-study, genki has explanation in English. But which book is good depends on the person, so if you can go to a big bookstore, compare books there and choose one by yourself 😊
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally thank u mam
thank you so much, as someone with a southern US accent the "r" was so unnatural for me 😂
Wonderful video. Do Japanese children sing these characters in the same way that English speaking children sing the alphabet? At different points in the video, it struck me that there was something melodic about what you were saying -- beyond the obvious related sounds.
Children don't sing but just say these in order when they get in school.
I guess one reason is that あ stands for あ sound in Japanese, but A(ei) doesn't stand for [ei] sound in English, and "a" can be read in many ways, so they have to know the name of the alphabet.
The melody is called "pitch accent." Japanese is a pitch-accent language, so the melody is actually very important.
My latest video deals with that.
ruclips.net/video/vC7M6Mv1TgI/видео.html
For me that Am Brazilian it's the same sound many letter and vowel
Thank you so much sensein
Sure!!✨
I’ve been learning japanese for months now but I still can’t do the r sound lol
😊👍thank you.
Before I saw the timeline, I half expected the video to be a 3 second video of someone saying "ひらがな"
I came here for the "う" sound. It's so close but so different from the way I say in portuguese that's it's hard not to say it my way
Hi can you please make the pronunciation of Hwaga please.
Do you mean "hiragana"?
I know it is just me, but when I listen to Lady instructors on Japanese letters or words, I just can't understand how they are pronouncing the harder to say letters. I think I try to say the same thing into a Google Translator, and it just does not work correctly
Example the "R" sounds. To me the lady teacher kind of sounds like an muted L sound and using the tongue. I try these sounds into the Google translator and it does not work. If I do a muted Spanish R sound with my tongue, it does work. Tried words like Roku, Gorufu, Bare, and so on.
I will keep practicing, but some letters just don't make sense how the teacher is saying them.
playing "music" in the background while teaching subtle phonetic differences seems counter productive
Many people have told me so, so I don’t use any background music anymore…😅
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally thanks for sharing. with or without, this is a great vid' either way and helps us beginners immensely. thanks:)
Oh, thank you!😊✨
Yasashii sensei desu! 😊😊 Arigato.
Dou itashimashite!!😊
You deserve subscriber's ありがと❤
嬉しいです😊 ありがとうございます！
Thanks!
so grateful for this, thank you! My 4 and a half year old was so curious because she loves Studio Ghibli and asked about the writing. I found this after she also asked about the menu writing at a Japanese ramen and sushi shop we ate at! I don't want to think it is añl Kanji, I hope she will learn many languages and build safe bridges among people, we all have so much in common, down to our bones.
wow, your 4 year old is interested in other languages? Wonderful!! I’m sure she will be connected with a lot of people from other countries in the future. Good luck with her🥰✨
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Yes, she ls drawing her version of Kanji all over things now!
Amazing!
And thank you for your Super Thanks. I finally realized now!
I think for the らりるれろ and also for ふ the only thing that helps is lots of listening. I watched many videos but for me it's the same every time. I understand when it's explained and I can copy the sound. But when it comes to an example suddenly it sounds completely different to me. In this video for example, ふ is explained to sound like "hu", not "fu". In the example word ふじさん it suddenly sounds like "fu". I can also see the lips touch each other as they do when you say "fu". Maybe it's difficult for a japanese native speaker to think about these sounds from a non japanese native mind. In the end there has to be a reason why ふ is written as "fu" instead of "hu".
I checked the video, but my lips aren't touching when I'm saying ふじさん 😅
And it's ふ, not "hu." I think romaji makes you confused and prevent you from hearing the real sound. It's best to think with ひらがな or カタカナ.
Ganbattekudasai〜 😄
amazing video , thanks alot
My pleasure :)