Can Japanese people pronounce the L sound correctly?
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Sure they can. With practice. It's because the Japanese language does not distinguish between /l/ and /r/, ınstead using a sound somewhere between the two of them. If you've been speaking nothing but Japanese for your whole life, it's very difficult during conversation to constantly try to make your 'r's and 'l's distinct.\n\nTo comment on alyck's comment, actually they're not bouncing willy-nilly between /r/ and /l/. It's that their single sound is between them and sounds more like an /r/ when we expect an /l/ and more like an /l/ when we expect an /r/.  In fact, they're using the same sound in both. Like how it seems to us that a lot of Europeans say 'wery vell', when actually they're using the same half-w, half-v sound in both words.\n\n\nIt's the same reason so many Europeans pronounce the two th sounds as /t/, /d/, /z/, /s/ or whatever.\n\nAnd the same reason we English speakers so mutilate sounds like 'ö' when we learn foreign languages!
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Listen to the final sound in the singular form of the word.  If the last sound vibrates (put your hand against your throat to feel this!)the sound of the plural will also vibrate, hence it will sound like a /z/.\nIf the last sound does not vibrate, the plural will not vibrate and it will sound like an /s/.
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I think it can be pronounced a number of ways. \n  Nye- yen, Noo-yen, When, and Nwen are the ones I've heard.
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My son  plays on line games with people all over the world. He has asked that question of some Japanese people and they said yes that their keyboards have the characters of their language. Evidently, there is some type of an interpreter component that changes it to English when playing international games with English speaking people.
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♡Hi MissFred! I learned that "nikkou" means sunshine or sunlight so I hope we're discussing the same "nikkou" here. I think "nikkou" is a beautiful word too! The pronunciation would be like knee-koh-oo  *The u- oo sound is often times very faint, soft in many cases. *Although there are those who pronounce it a bit stronger. I hope this helps you! Have lived in Japan over 8 years now.♡ *If I have the wrong word, pardon me in advance! (*^o^*)
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assume the position and yell "HAA DOO GANNN" if you fail also try the japanese "KAAMAAMAHAA" basically the same but slightly differant hand moves...hope I helped..
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1. "r" is soft, and "rr" is hard. And yes, they really sound different. (eg  pero = but, perro = dog; caro = expensive, carro = car)\n2. it's pronounce like the "g" in general or like "y" \n3. j always sounds like "h" (a little harder though) in hello.\n   ga, go gu sounds the same as in english. ge, gi sonds like j in spanish, like "h" in english.\n   ch always sounds like ch in cheese.\n4. there aren't any spanish native words beggining with "w", but it sounds like "gu"\n5. therre's no difference in pronunciation between "v" and "b" in spanish, they sound like "b" in english
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I'm not Japanese and I only speak for myself. However, when I learned to speak German I would want to learn to speak it properly. It is possible to speak many languages with an American accent. By learning how to speak the language as spoken by native speakers, you both learn how to speak it properly and honor the native speakers of the language. You do not give up anything of yourself as a language spoken with an accent from another language is technically wrong.
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♡Well, I'm sitting with a group of 8 Japanese (as I pretty much do once a week) and I asked them your Q just now. This is what they said ～　It's a little difficult for us to pronounce "R" as well as "L", "V", "TH" and a few other letters or combinations of letters because they are those letters/sounds that aren't used in our everyday Japanese. SOME of us aren't accustomed to forming the letter(s) with our mouths or making the correct sound. We're just not used to it so when SOME of us speak English, which is foreign to us, we have some difficulty. It's not on purpose! It would be the same for some "foreigners" trying to speak Japanese and using "tsu", "gyo", "ryu" and such, they just don't get it. Think about it. We stress SOME because many Japanese people don't have the problem and pronounce "R" and all sounds perfectly. ～～So Coffee, there you have it, straight from the mouths of Japanese, who all speak English exceptionally well I might add!♡
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You could also use dashes - \nHogo-no-kaze.\n\nIf you're asking how to "spell" it - why not just use Hiragana? \nほごのかぜ
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In Cantonese , it sound like " Mo tong Hall Lok"\nIn Mandarine, it sound like " Wu Tung Ker Ler"
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If everyone is pronouncing it wrong, then I suspect it is an unusual J sound for Americans.  If it does not sound like the J in jeans, jell-o, or jolly, then you should expect that people will get it wrong.  We do not pronounce the letter J any other way.  Also, the first A could be long or short - the second one is most likely short.  So your name would be pronounced either Jay-nuh or Jaw-nuh here in America.  If neither of these is correct, then people will definitely be pronouncing it wrong.  Don't be offended - just correct them and they will learn.  It may take a few times, but that is to be expected.
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The ones who said "L" are correct.
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It is true that there is no "J" sound in Hebrew, though it is not difficult to trace and understand the phonetic changes by which the original consonantal "I/Y"-sound came to be pronounced as it now is in English.  (more on that below)\n\nI also doubt people who have given any thought to it actually think that the J, as pronounced in modern English, represents the Hebrew sound used in these words.    Those who know any Hebrew at all (including many who know almost none!) understand that the names you list were pronounced, in Hebrew with a consonantal "Y" sound.\n\n------------------------------------\n\nI think your underlying question is,  "Is it PROPER for us to pronounce these names (e.g., Jerusalem and Jesus) as we do?"\n\nMy answer:  Yes, for two basic reasons -- two processes common to human language.\n\n1) how names are adapted ("Anglicized") when translated \n\n2) how sounds within any living language change over time\n\n\n1)   As part of TRANSLATION, we ANGLICIZE names that we borrow into English -- a very ordinary sort of practice between any two langauges.\n\nWhen we speak these names are NOT claiming that this is "how the ancient Hebrews pronounced it" .   And we are NOT speaking biblical Hebrew, but English.     These are ANGLICIZED forms, and that is what we typically use when we bring foreign names into English.     So, for instance, we  pronounce "Paris" like an English word, including the final s-sound, NOT the way the French do [Paree, with a rather different /r/ sound from English].  Nor do we call the German city "Muenchen" [with a u-umlaut sound that does not EXIST in English, as well as a  "harsh" /ch/ sound  like that in Scottish "loch" that is likewise not native to English].    Rather we  say "Munich" [Myoo'-nik].\n\nSo, when we bring a name (or directly borrow ANY word) from a foreign language, we adapt it to the sounds and sound patterns of our own language.  Note that all this happens in part because some of the sounds and sound-patterns of the original language are unusual or even unpronounceable to those in the 'receptor' language.   So we HAVE to change it.\n\nIn fact, the more important the name is, and the more those in another culture use it, the more likely it is to be pronounced in a distinctive way that fits in with the patterns of the "receptor" language, rather than the original language.\n\nWhen it comes down to it, we seldom pronounce foreign names precisely the way speakers of those languages do (or did), and the more distant or unusual that language and its sounds, the more different the translated name will sound.\n\n2)  normal HISTORICAL changes -- pronounciation of words, and of particular letters CHANGES over time.  \n\nThis is just a  normal part of what happens with  LIVING languages --ALL of them.   (English, as a Germanic language heavily influeneced by a Romance language [Norman French] has perhaps experienced more radical changes than many others -- in grammatical forms, in vocabulary and in pronunciation.)\n\nHence, we do not even pronounce older ENGLISH words or names the way they were 'originally' pronounced.   In fact, the same goes for HEBREW.   There are certain letters in the Hebrew alphabet that are almost certainly pronounced differently by those reading biblical Hebrew or speaking modern Hebrew today  (and scholars often debate about precisely how those letters were formerly pronounced -- there's a famous OT passage based on the different pronunciation of a word sibboleth OR shibboleth... only we are not quite sure how the two groups pronounced those two s-sounds).   For that matter, some of these pronunciations changed between the time of Moses and David, David and the exile, the exile and the time of Christ...     that is not even to mention the different regional accents/dialects of the ancient language (which again are
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It depends on the language I guess.  In French I probably wouldn't pronounce it the same way as you would in English.  And what do thoses word mean anyway?  Sometimes with the ethymology yuo can figure out the pronounciation.
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Japanese is full of great onomatopoeia.  My favorite is "icha-icha" which means to make out, kiss, etc.  I also like "hokka-hokka", the sound of steam coming off hot food!
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you might try learnig to spell JAPANESE first- just a thought