if this is a nationalism, it would be nice contrubution to the worldIn that case, my thinking is that our direction should be to take advantage of that difference. Instead of worrying whether the difference makes us better or worse, we should put that difference to work for usﾂ…. From difference rises creativity. The roots of inferiority toward the West run deep among the Japanese people, but to see ourselves and our differences in that manner acts only to further deepen that inferiority complex.ﾂ" .............................
.It is our duty as Japanese toward the rest of the world to make a conscious effort to study the Japanese language brain that we have inherited in order to make better use of our natural creativity
It's not the brain, caster. It's the environment here. Japanese born abroad must still have the same genetic disposition in their synapses, yet they can speak English perfectly. Or do you disagree?Japanese brain
there is a difference action by language surely..
why is Japanese not good at speaking english?
why is Japanese not good at speaking english?a
why is Japanese not good at speaking english? LOL
The Japanese 'r' is an alveolar tap/flap. It takes place in the same place as the English 'r' and 'l' sounds, but it is equal to neither. It's common to replace the sound with one you are familiar withI had that 'language incompatibility' happen to me in reverse. This Japanese girl at my old school was trying to teach me to say her name properly (it was spelled Rie but pronounced Lee-eh) and while I could say it properly I had to really think about what I was saying otherwise I kept calling her ree-aye.
That is because they do not understand the phonology of either the Japanese R or the English L. Re-read my previous post and look at this chart. The Japanese 'r' is in the same column as l and the upside-down r (English L and R), meaning it takes place in the same part of the mouth, but the articulation is different. You can even click on the characters for example audio of each consonant; the sounds are a bit exaggerated but the difference should be very clear.Actually though many Japanese tell me the sound is actually closer to "L" than it is to "R"
If English speakers want to more naturally pronounce Japanese, they need to learn how to properly pronounce Japanese instead of trying to approximate native English sounds to Japanese ones. As I said, the sounds are more complicated than I explained, and substituting one foreign sound for another hardly does anything to make one's Japanese more "natural"
All this, despite his Japanese brain!
☝The significant part of Prof. Tsunoda's discovery is that the Japanese pattern of hearing nature sounds in the language sphere is not a matter of ancestry, but rather dependent on whether Japanese was the first language learned.
Makes me wonder if anyone has read the quote in the OP?
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