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Bidouleroux
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To be honest, every sound except the らりるれろ is in the English language in some way or another, it's just that people generally aren't very good at forming new speech habits. I got pretty lucky in sort of inheriting a talent for language study (my great grandfather spoke five or six languages semi-fluently, plus his native English). It also helps that I've been to Japan twice and have been studying the language for five years, lol. I get annoyed at how quickly it deteriorated to merely "okay" Japanese both times after I returned from Japan...using it as your primary language day in and day out really gets it flowing smoothly. When I came back, I found myself using あいづち while my Dad and I talked on the way back from the airport, lol.

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考えられなかった is practically a tongue twister, and I'm really rusty, lol. Thanks for the compliment.

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What impresses me more is hearing a person of English mother tongue pronouncing Japanese almost correctly! マジ感心.


Yeah, those られる are a mouthful. But I was most stricken by how well you can hold off your English stress accentuation. Stress-timing also massacres the rhytym of Japanese mora-timed sentences. You regularly hear English-as-mother-tongue naturalized Japanese speak with a worse accent than a Chinese grandma, even after some ten to twenty years hearing and speaking nothing but Japanese. I have it easy though, as my mother tongue is French (no stress + all mora except ら り る れ ろ).



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考えられなかった is practically a tongue twister, and I'm really rusty, lol. Thanks for the compliment.

In reply to this comment by Bidouleroux:
What impresses me more is hearing a person of English mother tongue pronouncing Japanese almost correctly! マジ感心.


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