need some info on ''aozora''

Carlosx2

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who can tell me how to pronounce this,

i have a clue but i want to be sure.

As far as i can translate it, it has to be blue sky. 9 my japanese if not that good. good enough to come this far but never hear some one pronounce this, so i am not sure.

thanks for who can help me out

 

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Donor

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• 1 Sep 2006

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blue sky is right, it is pronounced 青空／あおぞら／aozora. (just how it is spelled, as long as you know the Japanese phonemes.

 

Tomii515

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like oww-zoo-r/daa, ah-O-zO-r/da

 

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Donor

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I would say "ah-oh-zoh-rah," if I had to try to spell out the phonemes without using IPA. The "r" in Japanese is different from English; it sounds almost like a "d," but the two are definitely distinct phonemes.

 

RockLee

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d?? I think you mean "la" Ah-Oh-ZOh-LAh. It doesn't sound anything like a "d" to me ☝


Here's a song from Takahashi Hitomi called "aozora no namida", you can hear how she pronounces aozora

 

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Donor

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that sounds like an "l" to you? hmm, I know that Japanese people have trouble distinguishing betweening l and r, but the two are very distinct to me. When I explain the way I make an r in Japanese, it's like bouncing my tongue off the roof of my mouth; like rolling an rr in Spanish, but without repeating the sound. To most of the American students I study with, it seems much closer to a d than an l.

 

RockLee

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Must be a difference in mother tongue?