Michal Dworaczek wrote:
> The best is that Japanese are not aware in the sound difference of R&L,
> V&B. This makes the pronunciation easier to foreigners.
When you are trying to master the language and pronunciation, you'll
find that the tongue takes on a shape similar to both R and L when you
prononce the Japanese R. This isn't as true for the B, because they
simply don't have a V sound :)
Also, Scott mistyped SU-I-CHU as SHU-I-CHI -- SEW-EE-CHEW versus
SHOE-EE-CHEE, which sounds far less like the english switch ;)
Too bad we don't really have an Asian studies program at the U of S.
Received on Thu Jun 1 19:57:19 2006
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