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Originally Posted by Lucas89
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. |
I agree with this. IMO it's much better to sound like you are trying than to sound like you're confident with lalilulelo. This reminds me of someone in my class who thinks his Japanese is amazing because he took it in high school; when he was talking to these exchange students that came in our class he just sounded arrogant because he would say something completely wrong but act as if he had a native accent. As long as you're humble and apologize for how terrible your Japanese is, you'll be fine.