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 Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 6:53 pm
ALL SOUNDS IN JAPANESE ARE DIFFERENT IN JAPANESE FROM ENGLISH EXCEPT:
M,H,I,S
CONTENTS
heart guide
heart basics
heart voicelessness
heart various posts on pronouncing sounds.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:13 pm
THE GUIDE
heart this is something you MUST know to know what i am talking about.
heart bilabial= p and b, say these sounds. when i tell you soemthing is bilabial, it means you say it your lips
heart dental= this mean you pronounce something with the tounge touching your upper teeth.
heart palatal= say "ch". for an palatal sounds you say it in the same place you would say ch. (this means put your toungue for saying this sound in the same place as for "ch")
heart velar= this is a throaty sound. you may know the phrase "guttteral", this is for very thraoty sounds, which only exists in indian and arabic languages.
heart laryngeal= simply, its the "h" sound
heart aspirate= this means the consonant has a breathy sound (non existenet in japanese, but very existint in english)
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:14 pm
BASICS
heart 言う is often pronounced 「ゆう」
heart 言う⇒ ゆう
heart 言って⇒ゆって
heart 言った⇒ゆった
heart 言ったり⇒ゆったり
heart 言ったら⇒ゆったら
heart 言います⇒いいます
heart 言える⇒いえる
heart 言えば⇒いえば
heart 言わない⇒いわない
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:18 pm
VOICELESSNESS
heart these are unvoice consonant
k,t,s,sh,ts,p,h,ch
they re i or u slienced when one come before another and at end of sentencees and when they are before other voiceless consonants
heart く・き・し・す・ち・つ・ひ・ふ・ぷ
人（しと・ひと） Shto、Hto
奥さん（おくさん） oksan
ふとん Fton
力（ちから） Chkara
ポップ popp
です des
言います iimas
there is one special rule:
します shmas
し also becomes silent before ま・み・む・め・も （マ行）
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:24 pm
う
a japanese u is pronounced without the lips rounded.
you will notice that when you say "oo" your lips also stick out, do this in japanese to just dont round the lips.
so, the repersentivtive of this japanese u is the hiragana う
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:26 pm
DENTALISM
the japanese language is mostly dental sounds, which makes it osund softer than english.
english is mostly palatal sounds, that are aspirated.
though i will post all sounds that are dental instead of palatal, it is still good to remember this.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:33 pm
た・て・つ・と
the t sounds are pronounced with the tounge toouching the upper teeth.
ALSO UNLIKE ENGLISH the are NOT aspirated (say tin, if you hear or feel a breathy sound that is aspiration. now say it infront of canle. at candle the fire blow out/flicker. you do not want that fire to even flicker) remember not round lips when saying the tsu's u
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:35 pm
だ・で・ど
like t's they are pronounce with tounge touching the upper teeth.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:38 pm
ざ・ず・ぜ・ぞ・づ
this "z" sound in japanese is dental.
it is different from english in that it is pronounce more like "dz"
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:44 pm
な・ぬ・ね・の
these are dental. (rememeber i only list things that are different from english, dont think i just elling you that these n are dental)
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:45 pm
に
this is a palatal sound.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:49 pm
わ・を
a bilabial sound, it is pronounced by by bringing the lower lips down from the upper lip at the starting of the sound "wa" or "wo" (if you pronounce it that way, in japan it is a amtter of preference, in your country it is a matter of what you are being teach)
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:52 pm
ふ
not as hard as the books say rolleyes they just dont want to go throught the hard concept of "u". if you stick your lips out but not round them like i told you, just put them closer and blow.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:54 pm
ら・り・る・れ・ろ
bring your toungue to where i told you to pronounce the japanese d (see above) no say "ra" and tap your toungue once and JAN!(ta da!) you get japanese r which sounds like l r and d.
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