Re: 早口、早口言葉 Tongue Twisters! (Episode 2)

[iaw2010]

well done!! keep it up. btw you're creating interesting videos!!! seeya

[MissHannahMinx]

haha, that was pretty fast!

[blankppr]

Thanks. =D I had to do it a few times to get it right. lol.

[duzknmm]

Great!!!

You are better than Japanese. :D

[blankppr]

Thanks, but I doubt I am better. hehe.

[orhoagkno]

That's great.

That'd be as fast as I can go too!

By the way, for me - a Japanese speaker - English in itself sounds like tongue twisters, especially when native speakers speak at a native rate of speech, hmmm...

[blankppr]

hehe. Thanks. ^^

Japanese is like that for me too most of the time; it's so fast that I only catch a few words that I know and any of the other ones that I may know, my brain doesn't even catch. haha.

Also, I think that some English-speakers speak REALLY fast even to other English-speakers. haha.

[orhoagkno]

That's interesting. Truthfully I didn't expect that, because from what I can tell from this video, you seem quite used to the sounds and intonations of the Japanese language. It's a matter whether or not you know those words, isn't it?

And I'm sorry to dwell on this, but English words connect each other when spoken fast, and I think that makes spoken English hard to catch - at least to me - and I still don't know how to solve this problem. Grrr

Anyway, good luck with learning Japanese!

[blankppr]

It generally is about words I know or not but since my knowledge of Japanese is not very good and worse in practice, it makes it hard for me to figure out the meaning fast enough so I am only really good with words I completely know and not just know what they mean in English - if that makes sense.

It's hard for me to understand what you mean since I'm a native English speaker and have not thought about it. But...

[blankppr]

I think the more you listen to English, the better you will get. Japanese was VERY hard for me to even know where a word started and ended before I listened to a lot of things closely. I'm not sure though...

Thanks =) Good luck with listening to English too!!

[orhoagkno]

Yeah, I will. Thanks.

And I don't want to put a burden on your shoulder, but I am waiting for your new videos to come. :D

[blankppr]

=)

Thanks, I'm really glad you like them. ^_^ I'll try to make another one soon - Though I'm still unsure what to make one on, besides replying to "games" like the 早口言葉 and such. There will be one though. haha

[orhoagkno]

It'd be tough to come up with an idea what to make.

I don't mean to push my opinion, but how about this? I saw on your profile page that you made onigiri the other day, and I wonder what kind of onigiri you tried! hehe

[orhoagkno]

Thank you for the quick reply. :)

I see! Now it makes sense to me.

I think it's a great advantage, I mean, you don't have much trouble with sounds and intonations. You can focus on knowing the meaning(s) of the words you learn.

Also, I know what you mean. People usually don't care much about their own mother tongue since they actually use it. What I wanted to say is the change of the sounds. This is a very easy example, but "I want you to understand" sounds like "I wan' choo ta understan'".

[blankppr]

No problem. =)

That's true. I guess it helps for sure, though I didn't think about it in that way before. Thanks =)

Ahh. I understand that. I never even thought about it, but that must be hard for sure. I can't even say "I want you to understand" the proper way without saying it at more than half of normal speed. I think English must be a really hard language to learn with things like that and the fact that there's no consistent sound-rules.

[blankppr]

It's even hard for native-speakers to say words they don't know properly or to spell things right.

[ToLokyo]

Good job!

Thanks for posting the response. ^_^/

[blankppr]

Thanks, and no problem, I love participating. ^_^