Pronounciations

[Shougun]

Try easing into it like this:

say "A" as in long sound, as in "pray"

then say "or"

then "zee"

then "ah!" as if you just had a good thought lol.

With difficult words that don't sound native to you, best thing to do is break them up and ease into them like that. Say them slow, monotone, then ease into saying it faster until you master it. I taught a good many people at my old job how to get down proper Spanish pronunciations this way xD

Ah - or - zee ah...


ok so like A Orange Zebra!!!


Since we were talking about languages before I wanted to add - love the letter based phonetics that we can make so many weird sounds lol


You where showing Japanese of the English equivalent, Hanbāgā (ハンバーガー)-> Hamburger, getting a close phonetic is pretty much impossible with that kind of Asian base language (Like Chinese). However put in some accent marks in English (or other relating letter bases (we are a big family of languages )) and you can get pretty dang close lol. Of course the Asian languages have their benefits too (like 1-3 compact images per whole meaning (Kanji/Chinese) vs 2++ drifting images per word)

Its too bad we dont have a larger acceptance of accent marks in English - a lot of borrowed words would be said closer to the original with tiny tweaks, not only sounding more worldly of a language it'd also be more consistent for pronunciation lol.