How to Sound More JAPANESE | Pronunciation Tips 🇯🇵

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@dylanshelby5224 3 года назад

I always feel so awkward when speaking Japanese. I'm not pronouncing the words wrong, I'm just saying them with an American accent and it's honestly a turn off from continuing learning Japanese so thank you for this video! 🥰

@nahshondevose4610 3 года назад

Same

@reinascully 3 года назад

Don’t be discouraged, like I said in the video you are probably completely capable of fully communicating, which is highly impressive. Actually “sounding” Japanese is more of a bonus. Plus you’re probably pronouncing it better than you think!

@dylanshelby5224 3 года назад

@@reinascully much appreciated! I love your Japanese lesson videos! 🥰

@susanma4899 2 года назад

If anything, you have more sympathy for everyone out there struggling to pronounce English.

@Book_on_the_brightside Год назад

Thank you sooo much for this video!!! I was really struggling with the ra,ri,ru,re,ro and you explained it perfectly!!!!

@archangelspence 3 года назад

Ay reina smart af. shes like a legit linguist or whatever

@reinascully 3 года назад

The intellectual honor 🙇‍♀️📚 I studied language acquisition heavily for neuropsychology research during college and it stuck

@DanteBogdan 3 года назад

@@reinascully that's cool, I didn't even know that was a thing. 👍

@jordinhocharles 3 года назад

Facts ! Just because you’re a native speaker doesn’t mean you know the technicalities of the language… lmao trust me when my Brazilian friends ask me about English I just get totally lost 🤣🤣🤣 “can you help me with imperative or past imperfect ?” Me: 😶😶😶 what are those ?

@hapwn 2 года назад

@@reinascully can you teach us the engrishu language with a strong Japanese accent please :3

@Inaeyearsago 2 года назад

@@hapwn engrishu or Enlishu ana- Ei!!!!

@user-nn1mf8lr2w 3 года назад

Even though I've been studying Japanese for about three years, I wasn't aware of the thing about ふ's prununciation. Thanks for the tip.

@Alittlebitofeverythingoffical Год назад

Fu is more of like a hu but Duolingo is kinda…yeah…

@felipecabrera511 3 года назад

In my opinion the 'r' in らりるれろ is pretty much indistinguishable from the 'tt' and 'dd' in butter, letter, lettuce and ladder... or maybe it's because I'm a Spanish speaker

@reinascully 3 года назад

Yesssssss! You’re right!! Especially when you feel where your tongue is hitting the roof of your mouth, it’s VERY similar.

@hellopurplepen 3 года назад

Thanks for this! I was playing around with the tongue position on my hard palate and thought this worked perfectly.

@naddical 3 года назад

日本語

@lol-sl6nc Год назад

@@naddical え？

@low-key5512 3 года назад

I've noticed that as someone with a Slavic background, I have found the pronunciations of Japanese words much easier than some of my American or British friends

@reinascully 3 года назад

That actually makes sense since a lot of Slavic languages are also spoken at the “middle” or “back” of the mouth, so your tongue probably instinctively knows how to mimic similar sounds 🙆‍♀️ Is it Russian?

@DemanaJaire 3 года назад

Polish here and it’s the same for me. Obviously I needed to adjust a few sounds like ら-column, う, し, ち, わ-column and ふ, but I pretty much have mastered it (At least when I’m speaking slowly), and I believe the secret lies in the fact that Japanese and Slavic languages have pretty simple articulation of vowels. So for example, if a Polish person sees name Naruto, they would pretty much read it almost exactly like a Japanese person (ru would be a rolled a bit more, and u pronounced more in the back of the mouth, but the difference is minor).

@pooferss6056 2 года назад

Finnish here, though Finno-ugric is a completely different language group, it's still phonetic and quite similar.

@cyan_oxy6734 Год назад

As someone speaking Czech and German I find the vowels to be very similar to German. The way English spelling and vowels work just don't make sense.

@ganqqwerty 3 месяца назад

did you put yourself to a test? I am woking with phonologist teacher and he noticed a lot of issues with my Russian-influenced pronunciation. He also teaches Polish people and lists their common problems.

@davywavy1918 3 года назад

I notice Japanese and spanish have similarities in their vowels

@reinascully 3 года назад

Yes!!!

@fen_350z 3 года назад

This is almost like accents with Spanish for some of the pronunciations

@felipecabrera511 3 года назад

The difference is that in Spanish we put the accent in one and only one syllable, while in Japanese the accent can take more than one syllable and, in fact, the most important thing is actually the accent drop (or lack thereof)

@RaineAvina 3 года назад

Dude, it's killer trying to learn Spanish and Japanese at the same time. I slip into Spanish so often while trying to speak Japanese.

@mimi_j 3 года назад

Agreed

@reinascully 3 года назад

Spanish & Japanese (& Portuguese) have a lot of interesting similarities, like reading words exactly the way it’s written, so glad you noticed!

@TheMosquitto 3 года назад

@@reinascully Isn't there a weird b or v sound with Spanish though (also j = h)? I studied Italian a couple years back and I had a friend studying Spanish, and it was the one thing he always picked out as me saying it wrong when I was trying to pronounce Spanish when I only knew Italian. I'm trying to study some Japanese right now and intonation is really hard, and it's one of the things that programs like Rosetta Stone and Duolingo really fall behind on 🤔

@spencervoth5057 3 года назад

Reina: "Here's how to sound more Japanese while speaking Japanese" Those of us who don't know any Japanese: 👁👄👁

@jessicasezer9061 3 года назад

@user-or5rq6fk1x 3 года назад

Why would you want to sound Japanese when you don’t Even speak Japanese?

@luciandelle 3 года назад

@@user-or5rq6fk1x reading romanji version, well atleast that's why I'm here

@B3lph3g0r 2 года назад

yea lol

@B3lph3g0r 2 года назад

@@user-or5rq6fk1x repeat lines anime people said..

@JifromthePH 3 года назад

8:19 we have to acknowledge how cute fuwafuwa sounded when Reina said it

@ingridfreitass3760 2 года назад

As a brazilian being fluent in english and almost fluent in japanese, one of the best things was that even though my native language structure is not even similar to japanese, we pronounce vowels and consonants in the same way. So when i was trying to sound more japanese and improve my accent it was more about sentence intonation etc. Nowadays one of the things im really pround of is my japanese accent. Btw, i've been studying japanese for 6 years. Reina, i rllly luv your content

@fauxcommander 3 года назад

As a linguistics student who studies Japanese, this video was kindly appreciated 😌

@LadyBug-ox8bg 3 года назад

Her voice sounds different when she speaks japanese😄

@kaydencew.7976 3 года назад

This happens with most people lolol. For some reason, your voice raises naturally when speaking Japanese.

@shellys.9531 2 года назад

@kaydence w. Was just talking about this. Seems true for females but guys seem to go lower in pitch when speaking Japanese. Also cool spelling of your name btw :)

@quirkygachagxrlx311 2 года назад

Yeah, it happens to a lot of multilinguals. When I speak Japanese my voice pitch goes high, but when I speak norwegian it goes lower than the lowest voice I can make in Japanese.

@jaredf6205 2 года назад

@@kaydencew.7976 Yeah, everyone gets this with Japanese. Code switching probably has a little bit to do with it. Though to me it seems that because Japanese has two pitches used for stress(English uses mostly volume and speed for stress), when a non native speaker learns it, the default pitch of their voice is used for low pitch often used at the beginning of Japanese words and the need to raise it for the high pitch in the rest of the word. For native speakers, it seems their default voice is used for the high pitch, which most of a sentence is made up of and only the low pitch parts do they lower their voice. So non natives are raising their voice for most of the sentence, while a native speaker is keeping normal pitch for most of the sentence.

@djackson4605 2 года назад

@@jaredf6205 Yus!

@selgeaus 3 года назад

「橋の端で箸を使う」is what I often use to teach my students about different pitch (p.s. I am a high school Japanese teacher)

@robertandrewww Год назад

This is probably some of the best linguistics lessons I’ve ever seen. The way you graph the sounds and enunciations and note that different emphasis means different words is flabbergasting. Honestly, most people try to teach Japanese but it seems like it’s towards a semi fluent Japanese audience. Idk anything so these videos are very helpful. Thank you so much. I’m breaking down languages and cultures one country at a time.

@maggiem6209 Год назад

Excited to say that while I definitely don't have the tone fluctuations down, I can easily pronounce the vowel sounds correctly and often default to them when trying to visualize a new word. I met a lovely woman from Osaka a few weeks ago and she said that while my accent was very strong, she could understand me just fine. Big step on my way to fluency!!

@drskelebone 3 года назад

This is probably the most useful "here's why your pronunciation is bad" video I've ever seen. This makes a lot more sense now, and I kind of get the whole tongue/lip/teeth thing for why something is one letter in English, but making that sound isn't right in Japanese. SO COOL!

@justjailibee 2 года назад

So glad that as a Filipino, Japanese and Filipino language has almost the same pronunciation, especially the way we say “r”.. and is also phonetic and syllabic… the only difference is that our writing system is similar to the english alphabet, and we don’t use any other characters. And since i’m trying to learn both english and japanese, it makes it easier for me. :D

@nateykaiwatch 5 месяцев назад

tagalog has a lot of english in it so you should be fine also great english

@justjailibee 5 месяцев назад

@@nateykaiwatch thank you!

@Muichiro.Ame.Tokito 5 месяцев назад

Same, as a filipino, i also noticed it when i was learning japanese, hiragana. I have learned english, and learning it isn't that hard, i wish you good luck on learning your english

@IWr74 3 года назад

Reina, I speak Spanish, English and now I'm studying Japanese, but I'm struggling with terms and particles 😅 and knowing two other languages makes it more difficult because I'm mixing things 😂 Thanks for your advices for pronunciation, they're very helpful! 🙏🏽

@kiy3091 Год назад

literally same! Spanish has also helped me while learning Italian as well.

@MeArtist6 10 месяцев назад

Did you get good at Japanese?

@fennerarmstrong3346 3 года назад

Yay! I love these Reina-sensei episodes. They've helped me so much!!

@Shanedin24 3 года назад

I never knew learning a knew language was this deep. Great job!

@moniquemorris6890 3 года назад

Everytime Reina sensei uploads a japanese lesson video, I want her to become my own personal teacher. Love you Reina!!

@emilyrose0503 3 года назад

I absolutely love your language videos. They are so informative and helpful! Thank you!!

@agorapanologia 3 года назад

I love this so much. Something that I've noticed can really help in pronunciation for Japanese learners is the learning to master the subtle drop off of the "i" and "u" sounds inbetween and at the end of words, making it softer or even leaving it out entirely.

@OG-SQUIRTLE Год назад

This video helped me so much! Thank you!

@kategerry6162 11 месяцев назад

Very clear, thank you!

@EarlDerrickReal 3 года назад

Learning Japanese is can be difficult but your videos that point out subtle details like this one is making it a whole lot easier. More power to you! Domo!

@alixcardinaud9952 3 года назад

Thank you so much Reina !!!

@DanteBogdan 3 года назад

It's fascinating learning about this, have a nice weekend!

@moonshiro 3 года назад

I LOVE THIS! I've been learning Japanese on and off since I was 7, sometimes more seriously and when not it was usually from hearing cuz I have harder time learning the reading and writing. I knew a lot of the stuff you talked about but I never knew how to explain those stuff besides describing the tongue movement to people! also I think the emphasis on where you put higher notes, lower note or the power in the word is *great* cuz usually it's so subtle, it's really easy to miss those type of stuff and they're important! I would love to see more videos like this one! very informative, very easy to understand and follow and just overall making The Learning Experience fun which I think is most important thing! Thank you for doing this video! it was great!! hope you're doing well!!

@ryaneckels5411 Год назад

This is a fantastic video! Very helpful with detailed instruction without getting boring. Awesome content.

@neotakehaya Год назад

I’ve been studying Japanese for almost two years, and this helped a lot! Thanks so much!

@morganschmidtke9015 3 года назад

Very well done! Thank you! I think my #1 takeaway was when you mentioned that your tongue basically stays at the bottom of your mouth and doesn't go past your soft palate when speaking Japanese. When I studied abroad I was always pretty good at intonation and was told that I didn't have a typical American accent when I spoke Japanese. But I did notice that Japanese people didn't open their mouth as much and was curious as to what was going on there. Love the tips!

@minion_lover2343 3 года назад

Thank you! The photos helped me pronounce them a lot better.

@Kritselisan 3 года назад

Thank you for the video Reina!

@rileyreshi 3 года назад

I've been learning Japanese for a few months now and this really cleared some things up! Thanks! 🔥

@iamwombmyn 2 года назад

This was by far the dopest language vid I've ever friggin seen omg!!!!!

@LadyKostrya 3 года назад

I took Japanese in middle school and high school, and I had native speakers as teachers, but I never knew about intonations. As someone who has been studying Japanese for school for many years, this video was very educational.

@SwatterKFP 3 года назад

Thanks for all these tips and tricks, it really does help 😊

@michellegraham5125 3 года назад

Love tips like this when your learning something new during lockdown 2.0 here in the u.k 🥰

@Herodude60 Год назад

This is a really useful video! I was really having trouble with Fu and the R sound and this video helped a lot with those.

@17th_Colossus 3 года назад

Reina you're a great teacher, thank you :)

@Ve.rg_il 11 месяцев назад

I'm really thankful 🪂💋

@gundambassexe31 3 года назад

Hi Reina Sensei ! Thank you for the informative vid

@mrmatz408 3 года назад

oh man, this was super helpful. I knew some of these, but others not so much. thanks, Reina!

@wwild2k 7 месяцев назад

Thank you very much, you are pleasant person to listen to!

@ayathav 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for your clear explanation.

@heatherjustcreate 3 года назад

I think I need to just practice these pronunciations every day to get myself used to these new mouth sounds. Thanks for the video!

@user-lj3zk4vy5k 3 года назад

Dammmn girl, this was AMAZING! Please consider doing more of these, お願いします🤲

@Sirius91387 3 года назад

This was awesome. Thank you!

@mushrrafali4956 11 месяцев назад

Under only 5 minutes I can relate so much!!!! need more practice

@jaddaj5881 Год назад

This video was very well organised and explained. Thank you.

@yashpadte 3 года назад

Thank you so much for the tips Reina :D

@renley5778 3 года назад

This is super helpful tysm!! 💜

@ChosoDioLaw 3 года назад

Thank you, I needed this cause I want to improve! Really helpful :D

@camera415 2 года назад

Thank you so much! One of the things I adore about Japanese is the fact that's it's extremely phonetic and sounds absolutely lovely when spoken. It sounds better when the intonations and inflections are used when speaking. Thanks for the tips!

@alexberg7753 3 года назад

I never noticed the subtleties of pronouncing the fu/hu sound. Thank you!

@erniesunny2 3 года назад

This was soooo helpful! ありがとうございました🙏

@minervaloves Год назад

Best explanation on how to pronunce "ふ". Arigatou!

@offgriddlifestyle2544 3 года назад

Thank you sensei reina 💕

@PutitoCorner Год назад

I just started learning Japanese and found the enunciation/pronunciation of the sounds difficult, especially the らりるれろ sounds. Then I remembered that you have this series that I watched a while back. Now, I have a new appreciation of the work you’ve put on this. ありがとうレイナ先生！

@dannystratyys4002 2 года назад

This was fun thanks!

@aarus910 3 года назад

This is really cool, Reina!

@naeyonii 3 года назад

Thank you!!!Now I can sound Japanese when I speak it!YAY

@paulmccool378 3 года назад

Great video, Reina. And damn useful.

@qk5574 3 года назад

OMFG this is the first time I have ever said taberu (with the L sound) the right way and I sound Japanese! 😭😭 thank you! Arigato Gozaimasu Scully Sensei 🇯🇵

@jcvp2493 2 года назад

Love the video . Clear clean awesome 😎

@Ahwwrestling596 Год назад

I am super interested in learning this language thx for your help

@beezxyz 3 года назад

Ur so helpful I’m learning Japanese and take notes from ur videos I’ve learned so much tyy

@reinascully 3 года назад

This means so much to me- thank you!!!! Good luck on your studies!!!!

@milkyspjce2101 2 года назад

the ら was so helpful! thank you

@Gigadrax 3 года назад

Love the dogen callout! Such a good content creator!

@ZoBeeWitched 3 года назад

Super helpful!

@fuyusan 2 года назад

"That rain candy" あれ雨飴 are ame ame

@liftdCasserole Год назад

I just started studying Japanese and I even moved to Tokyo. I was having such a hard time with the ら、り、る、れ、ろ pronunciations because I couldn't stop rolling or trilling the r sound. I'm grateful I found this video of yours. Helped me lots thank you sm.

@buggy-boy 2 года назад

ありがとうございますれいな先生！

@Soulless_Sommy 2 года назад

OMG ILY that was so helpful! Thank you for that :]

@jamesprice4962 10 месяцев назад

That was a brilliant lesson.

@graefx 3 года назад

箸 vs 橋 was always the classic example we used and to really hammer home how context sensitive Japanese was. We had a class called Japanese phonetics that started exposing us to the tonal subtleties but it was more supplementary than anything.

@organicjapanesewithcuredol49 3 года назад

Yes it's so hard to tell whether someone is telling you to turn right at the chopsticks or asking whether you want a bridge with your food from the konbini.

@kairu_b 2 года назад

Very helpful!

@brandonjackson934 2 года назад

I am learning japenese and I found that your channel is the most best explained and most organized a ever saw.

@reinascully 2 года назад

Wow that means quite a lot- thank you so much! Happy my channel can help in any way 😊💛

@juanlimongarcia8028 10 месяцев назад

Excellent 😊

@justsimplykath 4 месяца назад

Honestly that intonation is challenging when I'm trying to speak japanese. 🫠

@kyrabrown6529 3 года назад

This is so helpful the examples made it so much easy to understand and pronounce better

@reinascully 3 года назад

Ah, this made my day! Thank you~ good luck in your Japanese studies! 📚🇯🇵

@kyrabrown6529 3 года назад

@@reinascully Im glad i can make your day! I love watching your videos they are so helpful and fun :)

@louieestrivo Год назад

The way you speak and teach reminds me of my elementary teacher. HAHAHA Thank you Reina for this very informative video.

@LloydSeven 3 года назад

Thank you, this helps

@JTPieterse 3 года назад

Awesome, thanks.

@raymondvalera1765 2 года назад

Hi you're really cute for a start Reina! I did worked in Japan as a guitarist and being around the locals really help how they sound, particularly when I listen to your songs that I love so much. I miss Japan and I'm from the Philippines.

@mehlover 3 года назад

This is great cause I need to review this!

@JustinBone 2 года назад

The "fu" was really helpful. I always find that though it doesn't immediately sound the same, almost rolling an r but doing so shortly can make the r noise we're after.

@cactustactics 3 года назад

I was so happy when I worked out you could pretty much hit the 'R' sound by saying 'D' and finessing it. I went around saying 'tsumodi' for a week

@Dannyb0y25 2 года назад

Good stuff, thanks.

@dido2341 3 года назад

TYSM OMG

@Prime2678 3 года назад

Wow you was your at 4am to upload this video! Trooper! Hehe I got Rosetta Stone thanks to you from your previous video! Thank you Reina!

@domigosan 2 года назад

Thank you so much for the work that you put into teaching others, 私 really do appreciate you れいなさん。どうもどうもどうも！

@WillJohnson321 2 года назад

This is so helpful! I'm learning right now and I want to learn to pronounce the letters as accurately as possible from the start. Your advice with ふ was very helpful. And your explanation of らりるれろ is a bit different then the others I have heard so far. I find myself able to better pronounce the kana now. Thank you!

@kingjules7604 3 года назад

Great vid Reina! So glad you mentioned Dogen 😄

@reinascully 3 года назад

He’s too funny 😂

@user-rg3uo7lz3e 3 года назад

教えてくれたありがとうございます❤🙏

@StuckInProgrammers 2 года назад

Ok, I’ve been learning Japanese for a year & a half, continuing to struggle with らりるれろ pronunciation. Your video totally helped! Part of it was realizing how much my tongue was still hitting my front teeth when I had been trying it before. ありがとうございます! ☺️

@kingofpapaya 3 года назад

I've recently started to focus more on pronunciation. One thing I've been focusing on lately is not only how people are pronouncing words but trying to focus on their mouth shapes while they are speaking. I can't say for sure, but I feel like trying to imitate they way they speak, physically, has helped my pronunciation overall.

@tobih1633 6 месяцев назад

I really appreciate this video, I've been using music and other videos to help my pronunciation being a complete beginner. This does help clear up some confusion I have had within my studies. The site I study through doesn't always have a way to find the vocal pronunciation. I have found myself being able to disconnect my knowledge of English while learning Japanese a lot better than I thought I would, but I will definitely be coming back to this video for references!