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Ever notice the difference between English in Japan and Actual English? When I first came to Japan, I saw some really really REALLY strange signs / shirts / restaurant menus. What's the weirdest Engrish you've ever seen? I'll start by posting this one I saw today.



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Engrish??

weirdest Engrish ?

I can't see the pic. in you post~ sorry~! plz upload it in the forum then all the man will see it ~
 
hahaha...well the Japanese syllables has no letter L or V or any constant ending syllable other that N....
so if i was to speak Engrishi or Engrando-go i would sound like this..
guess what i am saying and take a prize :p

i amo sasori, i rabu yu oru...
i speako engrish bery goodo.
habu a greato timeh
see yu raita.
😊
 
Engrish doesn't refer to the Japanese accent; it's about unusual word choices. check out www.engrish.com for examples.
 
HAHA "flesh"... man, I love engrish.com Been frequenting that place for years.
 
i amo sasori, i rabu yu oru...
i speako engrish bery goodo.
habu a greato timeh
see yu raita.
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I always wondered why when teaching english the teachers don't just refuse to let them use all those extra add-ons.
How hard can it be to drop the extra 'O' or 'U' sound?
If they end up speaking like that it basically years of english lessons wasted because most english speakers couldn't understand their own language when spoken like that. ☝
 
MadamePapillon said:
I always wondered why when teaching english the teachers don't just refuse to let them use all those extra add-ons.
How hard can it be to drop the extra 'O' or 'U' sound?
If they end up speaking like that it basically years of english lessons wasted because most english speakers couldn't understand their own language when spoken like that. ☝
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I also think it is sad that people think it is not wrong talking like that. I seriously don't understand many things they say when adding the extra Japanese vocal to the English word.

Can anyone please tell me why Japanese people can't drop that cute (read annoying) vocal at the end. I don't know, I might be wrong and it might be virtually impossible to do it, I dunno.

Mauricio
 
scorpion da black said:
hahaha...well the Japanese syllables has no letter L or V or any constant ending syllable other that N....
so if i was to speak Engrishi or Engrando-go i would sound like this..
guess what i am saying and take a prize :p
i amo sasori, i rabu yu oru...
i speako engrish bery goodo.
habu a greato timeh
see yu raita.
😊
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hello i am qouting my self

no one wants the prize :P :-)
 
MadamePapillon and maushan3:

Accent reduction is a long and difficult process that requires a lot of commitment, practice and coaching, not because people with accents simply can't hear the difference, or don't know how to "properly" pronounce foreign sounds and speech patterns, but because they are unable to reproduce those differences consistently in their own speech. There are several aspects to languages that vary in importance depending on the language, and vary in difficulty depending on the speaker's first language and how late in life they start learning. The larger group of vowels and consonants in English are challenging for native Japanese speakers, and at first, are simply substituted for sounds present in Japanese. 90% of Japanese syllables end in vowels, so that "extra vocal" is an integral feature (and I'd say flaw) in the way that most Japanese students learn and regard English. The result of this is what I call "katakana English*," where the speaker sounds as if they are reading English transliterated into katakana. This is the accent that so many English speakers find at best endearing, and at worst unintelligible and unbearable.

I think a problem endemic to language acquisition is the mindset that accent reduction isn't a priority; learners simply use the sound sets they are already familiar with, and don't care that their bad habits make it difficult for other people to understand; as long as the words they use are correct, it doesn't matter to them how to pronounce those words like a native speaker.

As an English teacher, I spent a lot of time on this, because proper pronunciation is more impressive than using complicated vocabulary. I found that this flaw in English teaching wasn't solely the students' fault; almost all of the students I worked with on pronunciation were delighted when I showed them that they were capable of sounding like a native English speaker, and became more excited about learning the language. I found that the bar for English teachers is set so low, and the curriculums set forth by the eikaiwa I've seen do not adequately encourage pronunciation skills.

*katakana English is what scorpion da black has tried (and failed) to reproduce, but it is not worth correcting this. For good examples of katakana English, go to a karaoke place in Japan and play an English song.
 
*katakana English is what scorpion da black has tried (and failed) to reproduce, but it is not worth correcting this. For good examples of katakana English, go to a karaoke place in Japan and play an English song.

come on that was funny :-)
 
sorry, making fun of the way people talk stopped being humorous when I turned 12. I prefer to help these people, not mock them.
 
nice gaijin said:
sorry, making fun of the way people talk stopped being humorous when I turned 12. I prefer to help these people, not mock them.
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i am not mocking any one...
it is just fun to see how many english accents actually exist...
every country has its own accent of english now :p

we spell our Ps and Bs as B....

so an avarage arab would sound like this: " jaban is a very bobulated blace "

i know it is funny.....:-)...you are just too strict :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
Lately I noticed in some anime that pronunciation became a bit better, its still damn weird, but at least they noticed that it sounds better if they remove the sounds originally not present in the words, but still, they pronounce it weirdly.
 
Good pronunciation is a tough nut to crack, and I always encourage my students not to say 'endo' and 'salada'. It's not that a native speaker prorbably can't work out what they're saying, but it does make life harder and make the speakers more difficult to understand. Some of the language schools even encourage bad pronunciation, with 'robot' being taught as 'Roberto'.

That being said, my pronunciation is usually pretty good, but getting the stressed syllables right is another story.
 
Yep, the street goes both ways. Native English speakers are familiar with stress accents, but tend struggle with pitch accent or tonal languages, which comprise most of the languages in Asia. Fortunately, the pitch-accent homonyms in Japanese aren't so prevalent as to impede communication, but native English speakers tend to impose their native stress accent on their second language, the source of the infamous gaijin accent.

In tonal languages, this inability to differentiate between and reproduce the tones becomes a major handicap for stress-accent speakers; coupled with the difficult writing system, this is why Chinese is considered one of the most difficult languages for an adult English speaker to learn.

christ, that was way too academic.
 
Derfel said:
Lately I noticed in some anime that pronunciation became a bit better, its still damn weird, but at least they noticed that it sounds better if they remove the sounds originally not present in the words, but still, they pronounce it weirdly.
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Really? To me it seems they're getting worse and worse, haha - But even that is better than to actually watch the dubs! :p
 
*DISCLAIMER*
I can fully appreciate the difficulties in translating between English and Japanese, and I have myself on many occasions been the victim of my own 'Japanglish' with my Japanese friends. We all have a good laugh, and hey, it happens.

Ok, with that out of the way, this one had me near tears:


This one also:
 
Shinohan said:
Really? To me it seems they're getting worse and worse, haha - But even that is better than to actually watch the dubs! :p
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Actually, I've found they're starting to make an effort to put out better quality dubs. It's slow going though, and the original is always better but it IS improving.

But I watched this episode of an anime once and one the the main characters was supposed to say something in english...I have never heard such a mangling of the english language before. It was baaaad, I actually cringed. 😌 Especially since the character was supposed to be really cool.
 
scorpion da black said:
hahaha...well the Japanese syllables has no letter L or V or any constant ending syllable other that N....
so if i was to speak Engrishi or Engrando-go i would sound like this..
guess what i am saying and take a prize :p
i amo sasori, i rabu yu oru...
i speako engrish bery goodo.
habu a greato timeh
see yu raita.
😊
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HAHAH. That made my sides hurt from laughing too much.

I am so sorry, I love your.. ??
I speak english very good
Have a great time
See you later.

I love the line "See yu raita"
ahaha it sounds very asian.

I think most people actually have a hard time saying english words properly. xD Most of the time I can't understand what people are trying to say when they have a really bad asian accent.
 
bakaKanadajin said:
*DISCLAIMER*
I can fully appreciate the difficulties in translating between English and Japanese, and I have myself on many occasions been the victim of my own 'Japanglish' with my Japanese friends. We all have a good laugh, and hey, it happens.
Ok, with that out of the way, this one had me near tears:
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My God, that's the most messed up one I've seen so far :-).

In my hotel I stumbled on these razor blades wrappings:

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Those of you who like anime, please watch Fate Stay/Night, only the first few episodes, until Archers monologue, and Genshiken II around ep. 9-11 I think. Thats the worst, really the worst engrish I have ever heard in my life.
Well anyways, here's Archer's monologue:
 
Yes, lol its ownage. Here's an interesting AYB alternative.

I believe its the best I ever saw, watch it for yourself.
The animation's a bit choppy, for a better one look on newgrounds.com
 

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