I’ve never heard anyone say six in Japanese sounds like lock, in the Judo class (yes I was in a Judo class, not very long though) I was in back in school they said Roku like the Roku TV boxes that used to once be popular.
It’s because a native Japanese speaker it’s likely to split an English word like lock into 2 syllables(and ad an oo sound to the end so the 2nd syllable has a vowel) resulting in “lo-ku” and there is no distinction between r and l in Japanese so it’s also “ro-ku”
I’ve never heard anyone say six in Japanese sounds like lock, in the Judo class (yes I was in a Judo class, not very long though) I was in back in school they said Roku like the Roku TV boxes that used to once be popular.
It’s because a native Japanese speaker it’s likely to split an English word like lock into 2 syllables(and ad an oo sound to the end so the 2nd syllable has a vowel) resulting in “lo-ku” and there is no distinction between r and l in Japanese so it’s also “ro-ku”
I also got confused with that.
Roku TV is pronounced as “row coup TV” though? The Japanese is maybe closer to “rock coup”, just the the R is rolled.
Also, the U isnt actually pronounced; it is the natural ending sound that finishes the K. This is why all Japanese words end in a vowel