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!
Omar Eduardo Fernández
· 1 year 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。
Tami
· 1 year ago
I have found that edufire is a great place to learn and they offer plenty of wonderful tutors.
Omar Eduardo Fernández
· 1 year 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.
Sandkat
· 1 year 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.
Omar Eduardo Fernández
· 1 year 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.
Artificial
· 12 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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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.
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.