Why Some Asian Accents Swap Ls and Rs in English? (American, Korean, Japanese, Chinese) 

💯 percent agree.

As another native English speaker I completely agree .

I can’t say it well at all despite being a native speaker…it’s the only (common) English word that is so awkward for me. 😢

As a native english speaker, when i say "Roo-ruhl" you guys know what we're saying. 3rd world unite! Free these americans from their "ruahl" prisons 😂

It's quite common for English speakers to drop final l unless the next word begins with a vowel. Of course some regional accents overcompensate and add an l after a final vowel.

Shame the teacher is American, so she can't pronounce squirrel correctly herself - she says "squurl". Well, she is not a native English speaker - native English speakers are from England. I am not from England, but I have learned to speak English like a native. Of course, a lot of native English accents are really weird and not correct at all, some to the point that they are unintelligible to me. The Geordie accent can be a really difficult one, depending on the person, but the worst by far that I have encountered is the "Birkenhead mumble" - those people should just forget about trying to speak and use sign language.

Korean is quite similar to Japanese in many ways

Oh god, literature would just be mean to give. I wouldn't have come up with that example for this sort of challenge, but that's just a bunch of sounds that seem to be the challenging ones for native asian language speakers.

It’s Briton, not Brit.

You’ve never been so wrong about everything

English is basically a mix of half a dozen languages. Some of the words are pronounced close to the original, but are written differently. Some of the words are pronounced differently but written like in the original. Some are neither. There are words with the same ending but different pronunciation and words with different endings but the same pronunciation. There are silent letter. And that is before dialects and local varieties come into play. Basically put old german, old nordic, old french dialects, latin and a dash of a celtic blend into a mixer and hope that the result is pronounceable. Check out the poem "The Chaos", that shows perfectly how there is no logic

its pretty easy to discern....usually the southern accents are the ones to drop a syllable in words like jewel or family (jewl, famly, etc etc etc.)

Japanese is extremely different from Germanic languages, I'm very proud of any Japanese person who manages to learn conversational western languages

The Korean girl grew up and studied in Canada, so she can't be regarded as a proper candidate to compare with other two girls.

사람한테 원주민이 머냐 원주민이;; 넌 벌레냐? 에휴 뚤린입이라거 아무거나 내뱉네;;

Agreed. She seems to be relaxed and having fun too, I really like when they seem to be having fun.

And she talks at a normal speed

​@@xohyuuShe literally has a USA flag on her shirt.

that's a cruel one! i'm a native english speaker as well who grew up in the US all my life and "rural" + "brewery" continue to test me.

Both brewery and jewelry for me. I can do it easily outside a sentence. In a sentence it can turn into a tongue twister for me.

There's already videos with those word mentioned here. They are always used in these videos

​@xohyuu in South Korea people call themselves just Koreans in English, they hate being called South Koreans. In fact, in English they call their country by the official name "Republic of Korea" and not South Korea. They do not officially recognize North Korea as a country, but still as a rebel territory

I know people who say lieberry. One is a good friend of mine. I have noticed people where I moved in the Midwest who omit Ts a lot in the middle of words. They say senence and cener for sentence and center. I was having lunch with some colleagues and a coworker made a comment saying something about a “senence” then our boss said right after he did that “what was the sentence? I don’t know if my coworker caught it but I did. He kept talking like he didn’t notice though.

@@anndeecosita3586 Yeah, I was kind of watching it again, and noticed the "differen" at the end, and also her "and" sounds more like "an". It's sort of like to make a "t" sound you push air out of your mouth, but maybe it gets called it a glottal "t" because you just close your mouth without pushing air out.

@@EddieReischlYeah I definitely hear what you are noticing. At 225 it sounds like “try an say” vs try and say.

Mariko speaks Korean language very well.Korean language has a lot of difficult pronunciation for Japanese. If she studies English, she will be able to speak English well.

@@user-bb2ih8ys1m this channel is Korean everyone here has to be good at Korean in order to communicate to the channel's crew @henri_ol since japanese's loan words or words that written in katakana are mostly english, she knows english well but cant speak well because all the loan words are spoken in spoken in the japanese way

@@keithle_I was playing basketball with some friends last year and we had some foreign exchange students from Japan and Korea that were going to the college at the time and one girl who I was very fond of and in tune with on the court and off the court, and who I tried and embarrassingly failed at trying to speak Japanese to (but who was incredibly kind and patient with my basic Japanese skills) since I was very nervous. It was my second time ever speaking in Japanese to someone other than my sister who studied over in Japan for a year. Well, One time through these two hours of playing together, I heard her and another of her exchange student friends, speaking very fluent English and slipping between English, Japanese, and I believe Korean as well. But my English major brain just told me I had to correct her. So I did. Basically, I just heard her say the word measure like "meh-sure" and I asked if she was meaning to say "meh-zhure" and she nodded at me, and then I explained the way it was supposed to be pronounced and how she pronounced it and then had her and the other girl we were talking to say it. She was very good once she got the hang of it, but it was the zh sound that confused her a bit because as she explained they don't have the zh sounds in Japanese or Korean.

Because she grep up and studied in Canada.

No wonder why she’s so white-washed

She mentioned the most authentic one. Koreans don't typically speak like a native English speaker like the one in this video.

She grew up in Canada.

I can definitely pick up the Chinese accent in her English. Matter of fact, northern Chinese. The Korean girl while speaking slowly, has the best accent

@@JosephOccenoBFHso she’s Canadian?

I'm Korean I find your native language way easier than English to pronounce.😂

@@michel94818 In terms of pronunciation, English is more complex. In terms of grammar, Spanish is more difficult.

@@michel94818 There is a Korean RU-vidr who lives in Mexico. Her name is "Chinguamiga"

@@AndrewASW6840 You are so true. I'm studying your language.😊

Yo creo que nos es más fácil pronunciar la "r" del idioma chino que la del inglés.

I bet she's an ESL teacher.

It depends on a person's regional accent. Some Americans pronounce every syllable in certain words and drop syllables or endings consonants in others.

I've always prnounced "rural" as 2 syllables, but for me the words girl, whirl, twirl, and squirrel are all a single rhyming syllable, despite the spelling differences, just the leading consonant is different.

They'll get two syllables in the Southern US, but pretty much one around the Great Lakes, where I'm from.

Rural is usually two syllables and squirrel is usually one. BUT a lot depends on accent. Some people pronounce hell which is usually one syllable as two when it sounds like he yell. Also some accents drop syllables out of words like mirror they will say meer and mayonnaise as manaise.

@@EddieReischl Chicagoland born and raised for me, so Great Lakes also ;-)

One thing I did notice, when teaching Korean to Chinese people and teaching the ㄹ sound (tapping sound), the Chinese people in general are more familiar with British English. So they don't do the American d/t which does sound closer to ㄹ, which is part of the sounds covered in this video.

@xohyuu I noticed R is different across Portuguese dialects. My Portuguese teacher pronounced R as simple H, but I noticed some other varients have R similar to French R.

Yeah Saki would have been a better Japanese person for this specific video, but it was still fun nontheless

@@janslavik5284 For balance yes, but realistically, none of them should been English speakers so that we could get a much more authentic representation.

But it does show the general tendency (except the korean girl cuz she actually speaks english). But Chinese people can pronounce all of the english consonants perfectly; where they struggle is with the vowels. They don't understand what I call "compound vowels" (there's probably an actual linguistic term for this but I'm not a linguist); Basically, for English words, the vowel sounds shift slightly. For example, "Bye" sounds like "ah - aye", and "Ron" Sounds like "Roh- AH - N" if you really slow yourself down and extend the word as long as you can. Chinese people can't do that shift, they just either stick with "rohn" or "rahn" in the "ron" example. Or they literally make it into a 3-syllable word For Japanese, they only have 5 vowel sounds "ah, eee, uuu, eh, oh" and have trouble with all other vowels and some consonants.

국뽕좀 자제해라;; 어디나라든 국뽕이 문제네;; 저런것들이 커서 푸틴같은놈이 된다니까;;;

@@user-dk9xr4ry3w 말걸지마 쪽팔린줄도 모르는 뇌 고장 난 넘아;;; 이런애들 해외가서도 만나게 되면 말섞이기도 실타;;; 절루가라

Not really as it's written because in portuguese when you have an R in the beginning of the word it doesn't sound like an R but like an H for example~ anyone in the world would pronounce Renato as it's written but in brazil people pronounce Henato. In portuguese the R only sounds like an R when it's in the middle of the word also the double RR sounds like an H for some phonetical reasons I would say.

​​@@ProjectJILLit's pronounced as it's written, just with Portuguese spelling rules. Double R and initial R in Spanish/Portuguese sounds different than single R. In Spanish it's generally thrilled, in Portuguese it ranges from uvular like in French to a softer H-like sound, although there are people that pronounce it just like in Spanish. But it's completely consistent within our spelling. All words with initial R or double R are pronounced like that. Therefore, it's pronounced as written.

@@ProjectJILL In portuguese R sounds like R. It sounds like R in portuguese, it doesnt need to sound as in other languages to be "right". There is not a "R sound like R" , the languages have different ways of pronouncing the letters. And what is "right" for one it's not always the "right" for others. The sound of the R in portuguese is as the "H" in english. Even the name of the letter is "Erre". There is not a "R sound like R" just because in your language it has a different sound.

Even nowadays I still cant pronounce "february" correctly. It always sound so weird to me the way that I pronounce it.

@@valerioluizfelipe I've noticed that Double R and Initial R are pronounced differently depending on the region? My Brazilian Portuguese teacher pronounced them as the English H, but I've noticed some dialects were different. I heard European Portuguese does it closer to French R?

Didn't they literally just do that?

⁠@@maartenvandersteen5134Christian meant people from Those countries.

@@marydavis5234 yes and they have already had that.

@@marydavis5234 I think that he mentioned about Asians trying to speak Spanish/Portuguese words.

@@michel94818 It's a norm that Asian struggles with Spanish RR. (Some do manage to do)

Half of the words portrayed today are French loans and come from Ancient Latin.

Dude when she said "atmosphere" I felt like I was hearing a recording from a science presentation. Her English pronunciation is fantastic! She also does this wild thing where she drops into a different and much more american sounding tone of voice that really sells it for me. I am a native English speaker from Canada and she could have fooled me!

That went over like a led robster.

it is very easy for second language :(

@@PCs454as a* second language. You just failed lol

well im trying to learn 2nd and 3rd languages and cant hold a conversation more than 2 minutes

English is usually considered one of the easier languages to learn as a non-native speaker. The rules are simple and can be fully understood even when you don't have a good grasp on the rules. Of course people try to point out exceptions to the rules to say "see, it's not easy" but even if those exceptions were followed using the standard rules, you'd be understood completely and easily.

@@Djinnerator Not really. For those who speak a Latin language it can be quite hard because it is not phonetic which makes it harder.

Everyone on World friends teach English at international schools in South Korea.

@@xohyuu I understand braza 😅🤣

@@xohyuu I've been fermenting in enough K-content for far too long that I understand the reference. 🤣

I love Mariko's Cuteness.

As a filipino I have a hard time pronouncing F and P, B and V, and S Z. This only happened when these pair of letters exist together in one word. I’m also confused between ch- and sh- initial, tion, cion and sion, th- initials becomes D initial, then sometimes D initial in English pronounce As J to us though we don’t have J.😂😂 Ex: dew,due,duet,duty Those D initials becomes J to filipino

its actually just a germanic language with a large portion french/latin vocabulary its not a huge mash up of a lot of european languages at all. most of the french words we also have another germanic equivalent because the french invaders became the ruling class and didnt mix with the commoners

@@0151. what you would call “Old english” is indeed a Germanic language but modern English is indeed a mash up of many languages. As a small example there are plenty of words that you would claim as English that are derived from the Irish language such as trousers, whiskey and slogan just to name a few. If I took the time I could hand pick many many words that have origins from many different European languages and more recently from Asian and African languages. Modern English is a massive mash up of languages.

@@seanbyrne7919 no, modern english is a germanic language. vocabulary doesnt have anything to do with what family a language is in. the vast majority of english words come from french, latin and the germanic languages english evolved from with a small amount coming from anywhere else

@@0151. are you denying that there are hundreds if not thousands of words in modern day English that have origins outside of French Latin or Germanic languages?

@@seanbyrne7919 the number is irrelevant because the proportion is tiny

Nah the mandarin speaker was much cleaner.

They have an F, but it's not labiodental as many languages like English or my native Spanish, it's bilabial, as if you were blowing up a candle. In fact, this F is confused frequently with an H. And even then, that F only ocurres natively in one syllable: Fu.

It's been some time that I've noticed that they pronounce words like "Futari" more like "Hutari", so I got used to it.

There's two commonly used romanization systems in Japan (technically 3). Hepburn romanization (created by an American) maps the syllables as such "は ハ ha ひ ヒ hi ふ フ fu へ ヘ he ほ ホ ho" and was promoted by Americans (during occupation). So lots of place names are rendered as Fuji and Fukuoka. But the Japanese government uses Kunrei-shiki romanization which maps the same syllables as such "は ハ ha ひ ヒ hi ふ フ hu へ ヘ he ほ ホ ho" making the syllabary list very regular (with minor tweaks building upon the earlier Nihon-shiki).

@@azarishiba2559 What the fuck are you talking about?!?!?!?! In Spanish F is deaf fricative *labiodental* I don't know exactly about japanese, never been there, but in songs "futari de" is obviously fricative. In Korean, however, there are *NO* fricative sounds in their language.

In Fujian they speak Hokkien, not Mandarin.

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