Sunday, January 2, 2011

Japanese Lesson 2: Pronunciation Guide

Japanese pronunciation is easy compared to English. There are basically only 5 sounds in Japanese. These are how they are pronounced. I will reference the pronunciation with American English pronunciation.

 ah as in father
 ee as in me
 oo as in loop
 e as in hey
 o as in tone

The vowel sounds are pronounced with brevity, not drawn out.

For the other hiragana you are simply adding a consonant in front of these vowel sounds.

And that's it! Japanese pronunciation is very simple.

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