Why L and R sound the same to Japanese (Captioned)

[Alexanderzxy]

I have to say that this Japanese girl is genius. English is already very difficult for them and this girl can speak both English and Français. However, who are the target audiences, people who live in ottawa?

[MultiImpact12]

your pretty

[Foilsdown]

raff out roud

[SmallGodFly]

Tres bonne francais! And a very thought provoking extract!

And you're very cute, ignore the mole haters. Haters gonna hate. ;)

[alaynaabnormal]

I think her mole is cute! Something you don't see everyday. :)

[Fagottron]

@alaynaabnormal I agree. She's sexy, too.

[TheZeup2000]

I am a Francophile and I stumbled upon your video randomly, just to find out exactly 'Why L and R sound the same to Japanese,' and got a pleasant surprise with your french. My goodness...

[secutorclaudius]

moley moley moley!! very sexy girl though. pants down to you.

[maromikun]

I couldn't watch this for the annoying beeping. Feels like I have fucking tinnitus. Ugh.

[EmperorTerran]

fucking more face cross eyed bitch, you told us nothing

[bondigold]

LOL, very clever. I think most gaijing will miss the all of the layers of your meaning. Perhaps 1 or 2 more minutes in 1 or 2 more languages would add extra icing to the cake.

[zuckerarm]

has a crush on !

[TheSiiel00]

waaaw tu parles super bien français , ton accent est presque parfait, tu dois être trilingue?

[anonanon222]

you have never been kissed before.

do you nair that thing?

Thanks for the video ge0wk

[sunburnmuse]

like this /watch?v=u9WMw_zuWVs&feature=r­elated , the rolled R that its pronounced in Spanish/Portuguese language when they says RRRRRRRRRRamirez, RRRRRRRonaldo, Serrrrgio RRRRRRRRRRamos. Its kinda hard when your not born their or when in your language you never do that, like for me in French.

[roschler]

I thought the reason some Japanese natives have the "L"/"R" trouble is due to the way they form their "R" which is like the Spanish "R" but a single "trill" instead of multiple ones ( a single flick of the tongue). Fighting that reflex of wanting to single-trill the tongue causes the problem. This is similar to the trouble some English speakers have trouble pronouncing the "d" between vowels in Spanish, since it changes to a fricative sound more like "th" in "the" (but not interdental).

[roschler]

@roschler - Ugh, too many boolean constructs during coding tonight. I mean to say (but interdental, not dental).

[sunburnmuse]

She said arguing with a laboratory test on animals that its from the perception and conditioning that Japonese can't pronounce L & R differently. Like in every language we are conditioned at the begining of our lifes to pronounce sounds that in others languages when we growth, we will have difficulty to pronounce. Like for me in Portuguese i have difficulty to prononce the "R". Its like "RRRRRRRRonalidnho" then in french the pronounciation its totaly different we pronounce the R rapidely.

[sunburnmuse]

Waow! She speak very good in French too, barely without any accent at 95% peferct. I know cuz i speak 3 languagues, French, Portuguese and English.

[MisticWays]

Now talk Spanish!! >:(

Lolz xD Throughout the video I was wondering

what the difference in L and R were @_@

[anticliche321]

you pretty

[RPGJoel]

moles lead to cancer :(

[MrAniallator]

How did you learn English and French so well?J'etude Francais mais ma progresse est tres lente :/ Ce m'enerve... Tu as des conseils pour m'aides a apprendrai les langues?

I'm trying to learn Japanese too ^^ 私はナイルです。

[uzerofutube]

The closed captioning is very close to be closed.

OK, it's on, but I don't understand how the cat's perception has something to do with the "L and R sound the same to Japanese"...

But you're awesome anyway.

[gguagliardo]

I have to admit that I'm pretty jealous of your superior ability to speak 3 (more?) languages fluently. You are an inspiration for me in a way. I'm a computer science geek but have recently taken up an interest in linguistics and anthropology. I'm making it my goal to fluently speak Japanese, German, Italian, Spanish, French, and Korean. Tall order, I know. Well maybe I could do with only knowing some French and Korean, heh.

By the way you are gorgeous, like an Asian Marilyn Monroe. ;)

[mspetitegeek]

@SE962582C Thanks, I'll take that under consideration. You should probably look into removing all that asshole from your face, too. ^_^

[varekai918]

@mspetitegeek right on!

[HaleStorm98]

@mspetitegeek Your very pretty and the mole is fine, people who make fun of you for it aren't happy with themselves, and I love how you don't let it phase you. Your sweetness makes you even prettier ^_^.

[SE962582C]

@mspetitegeek Upon reflection it was most ungentlemanly of me, as a man, to make such an unworthy comment to a lady apparently of refinement, especially to a person labouring under disabilities, incapacity and invalidity, and I do hereby tender my most humble, faithful and sincere apologies.

[JoshtheUni]

@SE962582C Fuck you, asshole.

[Al5ezdlt]

@SE962582C Just die.

[uzerofutube]

All I see is invisible caption, you mind telling us in what language the caption is?

[mspetitegeek]

@uzerofutube The captions should be in English, a translation from French. Does it not appear when you press the CC button?

[silaipek11]

I have no idea what you just said .. but it sounds so romantic <3-- yeah by the way no homo im a girl kk :)

[ArturoYamashita]

Japanese CAN distinguish the sound difference of English L and R. But, they are not used to pronounce them differently. They will be able to pronounce them properly with practicing. Because, their old ancestors decided to make it in between. Japanese L is pronounced EL. (エル) and R is pronounced "A-Le", AAl, or AL (アール). Japanese ラリルレロ is pronounced more like La, Li, Lu, Le, Lo. That's why they are not good with rounded R sound.

[bweedin]

With proper training you can absolutely tell the difference. I learned some sounds in Mandarin Chinese that don't exist in the languages I grew up speaking, and yes at first they sounded exactly the same to me, but after a few years of practice I learned to distinguish them.

[loosey5]

Hearing you speak French gives me a boner.

[caduceus33]

It's Greek to me!

[dcdemon]

Me luv you long long time

[Dragonfyre137]

I stopped watching when I realized it's french....

[mspetitegeek]

@Dragonfyre137 Is that a knock against French, or are your captions not on? ;)

[Dragonfyre137]

@mspetitegeek

let's say I'm not a big fan of french.

[smartgirl63]

I am learning Japanese at my college and have the opposite problem. I can't correctly pronounce the letters ら,り,る,れ, and ろ. I can hear the way it is pronounced, but can't imitate those sounds. I try to combine the letters r and l, but end up just saying one or the other. I guess it is like trying to make purple when all you have ever known are the colors red and blue. For Japanese people, it would be like trying to see red and blue, when you only know of purple.

[wardog810]

hole le mole le

[philxcorexinxurxface]

@wardog810 lmao, thats so wrong :p

[Biimbe1]

Very interesting

[andydrewy]

The cat study reminds me of something I heard about in a Google Techtalk on language a while back. There's an Australian Aboriginal tribe called the Thaayorre whose language doesn't have words for "left" and "right"; just absolute directions like "north," "south," "east," and "west". Because of that, the people there have an amazing sense of direction (despite not knowing their left from their right). Anyway, cool video! The French sounded great to me :)

[mspetitegeek]

@andydrewy Interesting! To them, our sense of direction must be so impoverished. "What, you can't tell the difference between NNNNNW and NNNNW?"

[brandoscostumes]

@andydrewy you should peep Lera Boroditsky's recent stuff about that if u havent

[Turbo852]

I remember learning about this when I was little. It was hard to understand what my Japanese grandmother was trying to say sometimes, so my mom explained it to me. She said that "r"s were sort of a combination of the "r", "l", and "d" sounds. I guess if they only have that one sound, it is hard to distinguish between them not having learned it all their lives.

[mspetitegeek]

@Turbo852 Exactly. I wonder how long it would take to learn the difference once you were an adult, if it were even possible.