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06-21-2008, 03:22 AM

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Originally Posted by lizzey View Post
Yes a native English speaker can get use to of prounounciation but what I mean some words like house is ei can sound like ee (yes in japanese which is not a proper way)should be careful in stressing the word correctly or else it could mean something else thats why pronunciation is important.
*家 → いえ → ie, not ei

えい (ei) → a few different meanings!

いい → ii -> good, well, etc ええ → ee -> the casual yes.

I think a better example would have been ie (house) -> iie (no)

But yes, there are several words with small pronounciation differences.

Edit: I think I should have said a plethora rather than several, now that I think about it

Last edited by Nathan : 06-21-2008 at 03:34 AM.
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