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Japanese Pronunciation Gone Wrong

Started by omareduardo · 9 months ago

I heard about edufire through thisÂ blog post by koichi at tofugu.com. I created an edufire account and finally today I decided to ‘browse’ the videos there. The very first one I clicked at is such a disaster that I felt compelled to write about it. Here’s the ... Continue reading »

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Tofugu_Erin
9 months ago

It definitely is important to find tutors who know what they're talking about. If you learn pronunciation incorrectly, it's really hard to change in the future!

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omareduardo
9 months ago

I agree 100%. I watched the videos mentioned in this post, and then I had to cleanse my brain and just speak Japanese with a normal pronunciation to take the wrong pronunciation off my head! 困るね。

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Tami
9 months ago

I have found that edufire is a great place to learn and they offer plenty of wonderful tutors.

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omareduardo
9 months ago

I can't disagree with you. There are many good tutors and a great community, however, it's good to keep an eye open.

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Sandkat
8 months ago

I saw that Koichi is starting to do vids on EduFire. From what I've seen of his stuff on YouTube, he seems really good.

I think my two biggest pet peeves are people that mispronounce "karaoke" and "sake". One of my American co-workers asked a friend if she wanted to go out and do "care-ee-oh-key" once, and she had no idea what he was talking about.

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omareduardo
8 months ago

Koichi is indeed pretty good. He actually had a free lecture yesterday that was really good.

And yeah, karaoke and sake are two very common ones... also people that pick up japanese from anime often pronounce kawaii [is cute] as kowaii [is scary] which makes it particularly funny.

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Artificial
8 months ago

you know how bad his pronunciation was. I’m not saying this to criticize him since I still find that the video is good at teaching the sentence structure

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