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Re: Japanese Pronunciation Gone Wrong

Busby SEO — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:51:00 -0000

I agree with tofugu.

Re: Japanese Pronunciation Gone Wrong

BusbyTest — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:09:26 -0000

Yup tofugu your right....

Re: Japanese Pronunciation Gone Wrong

Artificial — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:20:02 -0000

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

Re: Japanese Pronunciation Gone Wrong

omareduardo — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:49:56 -0000

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.

Re: Japanese Pronunciation Gone Wrong

Sandkat — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:31:28 -0000

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.

Re: Japanese Pronunciation Gone Wrong

omareduardo — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:44:26 -0000

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

Re: Japanese Pronunciation Gone Wrong

Tami — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:26:06 -0000

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

Re: Japanese Pronunciation Gone Wrong

omareduardo — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:30:18 -0000

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。

Re: Japanese Pronunciation Gone Wrong

Tofugu_Erin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:15:36 -0000

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!