Introduction to Japanese Pronunciation (basic)

[KansasCityRob]

@ShoyuJapanese

Thank you for posting! This really helps

[xxDreamOceanxx]

Thank you for posting this! I am on my way to learning Japanese and this is VERY helpful thank you!

[WerewolfChlid]

i really want to learn Japanese sooo badly!! i want to move there and need help, but i don't get this, dose antone no where i can learn japanese without paying much or downloading anything?

[ShoyuJapanese]

@WerewolfChlid Not sure about your situation, but if you have a university degree, one of the easiest ways to get here in Japan is to teach English. It's kind of like getting paid to learn Japanese.

[WerewolfChlid]

@ShoyuJapanese thanx, am going to start university soon, and have always fanced being an English teacher, and being one in Japan would be very good:)

[ManekiNeko28]

the way you explain the pronunciation of japanese was been really helpful. thanks so much.

[Spiderglass219]

i want to learn japanese, so i looked this up...it's very helpful. but for each sound, are both symbols necessary? are they combined as is or...how does that work?

[cactuss11]

@Spiderglass219

The symbol (kana) on the left is hiragana, the one in the middle is katakana. They represent the same sound, just written differently. Katakana is used for words of foreign origin (eg. chocolate-chokoreeto, orange-orenji, guitar-gitaa) Any other word you can write with hiragana, but most people use kanji as much as possible. Kanji are the symbols borrowed from Chinese,and lots of kanji characters have the same meaning as in Chinese just different pronunciation.

[VraiCrystal]

Thumbs up if you're an UTAU user. :D

[dappleback]

@VraiCrystal XDDD I came to this video looking for something to send to my friend who is trying to make an UTAU for the first time... So scrolling down to see this was pretty hilarious.

[NagoyaIchirou]

i already know this and i can speak it too but i dont understand it

[animexluverxnhu]

omg! Arigatou! *O*

[djdragon181]

Thank you very much. This is very helpful.

[Shivey73]

that is really clear and simple. thanks

[ycsamh]

cool, thx