How to pronounce Japan, Japanese, and Japanese people
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Replying to @Dogen
Man this stuff is super hard but interesting as hell. I got my N1 8 years ago and I've been living in Japan for 9 years. I consume a lot of Japanese contents and have to use a lot of Japanese in my work and off work as well, and I can notice that my own accent
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It's funny how we learn how to ignore correct pronunciation in Japanese because we read that we shouldn't care much about that in our elementary Japanese textbooks, while that is not true for other languages (see Korean or even English!)... I wonder why they do that to us
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This is because there are no comprehensive, easy to use phonetic resources for elementary and intermediate Japanese learners; I try to teach Japanese pronunciation in detail on my Patreon to address this issue. Cheers!
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