• Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
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    I’m not gonna lie, this seems like a decent bridge for English to Japanese (for basic phrases and sentences). It’s probably better to teach romaji long-term, but those are all close enough to how they’re actually pronounced that you’d probably be fairly understandable, albiet with a weird accent.

    That said, I don’t know very much Japanese, I’d love to hear the thoughts of any Japanese speakers.

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      I feel like the pronunciations are too far to be understandable for a lot of these. Especially depending on your English accent.

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        Is IPA taught in schools? I had it as part of my English education, and it’s not hard for people speaking Latin-alphabet phonetic languages like Czech.

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        When my Japanese wife gets annoyed at me she speaks with a Southern accent. It never works because I always crack up at it

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      Japanese speaker here. It’s kinda close actually. Like if you slurred the words a bit while saying them there’s a better than average chance you wouldn’t have to repeat yourself.

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      I would also love to hear the thoughts of any Japanese speakers, sounds like a useful superpower to have in Japan./s

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      Its actually decently close, but a touch off. Off enough that you’ll definitely sound like an American trying to speak Japanese, and if you’re actually in Japan, they may not recognize a few of these. The numbers are good aside from 6 (Roku) and 10 (needs a y in it, like jyew). Ohio is also hilariously accurate enough.

      In Japanese, R and L are the same, and it sounds a bit like making both sounds at the same time (its done by trilling the R, a little bit lik rolling an R). In this document, they use L, but you’ll probably have an easier time being understood using R. (Key ray instrad of key lay, Airy got toe).