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Have trouble pronoucing らりるれろ,,, please help
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05-10-2009, 10:29 AM
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Japanese people are hard to find "L" and "R".
Usually, they seems to pronounce らりるれろ as La Li Lu Le Lo.
Lol, i think you got it mixed up, have you ever heard the "L"
sound in the japanese language? When japanese try to speak a language with the "L" sound, they say "R" instead, example: herro
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05-10-2009, 10:52 AM
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If you insist. I, however, shall continue to pronounce them ら, り, る, れ, and ろ.
No sh*t...
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05-10-2009, 11:43 AM
Japanese can't distinguish "l" and "r" consonants because there is ONLY one liquid consonant in the phonology.
Same goes to Korean and other languages around the world (mostly non-Indo European).
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