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Originally Posted by Laian
Honestly, just pronounce them as Ls.
When I was studying in Japan, it boggled my mind when people years deep in studying Japanese still pronounced the らりるれろs with an R sound.
Next time you say something like れんらく (renraku) just say "Lenlaku." Honestly. If you try to perform some of these other suggestion of meeting some medium point between both the L and R pronunciations, you'll just look like you're trying too hard and it wont be natural.
Best of luck.
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That all depends on how they pronounce their L's
If they pronounce L's anything like me then saying 'Lenlaku' won't sound even remotely like the original word.
Besides, the point is to just take advice and suggestions and practise until it does sound natural anyway, so by the time your used to it, it hopefully won't sound like your trying too hard.
Although when I speak with pen pals from Japan over skype I can hear them trying very hard to pronounce L and R in some cases, but I know that it's not their first language and they are just practising, and I'm guessing that most Japanese people would probably think the same if it looked like a foreigner was trying hard to pronounce their language in the correct way.
Basically what I'm saying is, in my opinion it's better to look like your trying too hard at risk of sounding un-natural, than to not try at all and going through daily speech without even trying to pronounce it the correct way in the first place.
If you practise every day, saying words and sentences with らりるれ or ろ in them, you will eventually just get used to it.