Japanese Accent Carol 陳佳渝 Yoyo 林芷帆 Jessica 黃芊芊 Sindy 林欣慧 Cindy 謝依君 Scarly 李紅穎

Why Japanese have their particular strong accent? (Cindy) Consonant-vowel formation, and comparison in English and Japanese phonetic symbols. (Carol) Japanese pronunciation: voiced sounds; “r” and “l” features in Japanese. (Yoyo) Stress, “sokuon”, and “choon” in Japanese pronunciation. (Jessica) Interview (Sindy& Scarly)

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Japan English Japanese VS English→ stress, retroflex School education → focus on grammar and reading culture→ pursuit perfect→ effect on speaking translation

Comparison in Japanese and English Phonetic Symbols The formation of consonant-vowel in Japanese. There’s no voiceless sound in Japanese. and し ; and ( じ ); and ち. There’s no diphthongs and schwa in Japanese. /r/ and /l/ sound are identical in Japanese.

There are some consonants in English that Japanese doesn’t contain: / v/, /ð/, and /ө/. / v/ becomes バ (ba) ビ (bi) ブ (bu) ベ (be) ボ (bo) /ð/ becomes ラ (ra) レ (re) ロ (ro) /ө/ becomes サ (sa) シ (shi) ス (su) セ (se) ソ (so)

Japanese Pronunciation Tend to insert vowels particularly at the end of a words ending in a consonant Japanese has no closed syllables (C)V or CVCV e.g. get becomes getto sound, cake, hot dog, book … etc.

Trouble with ‘ r ’ and ‘ l ’ sound i.e. rule becomes ruuru （ルール） i.e. radio becomes razio （ラジオ） Lack of the /v/ sound It now has two accepted pronunciations, /b/ and /wh/ i.e. video becomes bideo or whideo

Might use /fu/ and /hu/ interchangeably both are the same sound in Japanese For instance, "who" might be pronounced as "foo “

‘ ti ’ and ‘ di ’ often become ‘ chi ’ and ‘ ji ’, respectively Like chicken tube, steam, tip, student, ticket, team ‘ tu ’ and ‘ du ’ often become ‘ tsu ’ and ‘ ju ’, respectively Like sportsman i.e. suitcase, tuna, tool, tour, tourist, tree

Glottal stop Japanese “sokuon” There’s glottal stop in Japanese, but not in English. Japanese use glottal stop when they translate foreign language in to katakana. Glottal stop usually appear when there’s a short vowel.

Example switch→ スイッチ racket→ ラケット fashion→ ファッション classic→ クラシック sandwich→ サンドイッチ basketball→ バスケットボール

Long Vowel Japanese “choon ” All the Japanese characters have the some vowel length. In order to make the long vowel sound in the katakana, Japanese use two vowels to make it sound longer.

Example coffee→ コーヒー (ko o hi i) cola→ コーラ (ko o ra) table→ テーブル (te e bu ru) cake→ ケーキ (ke e ki) party→ パーティー (pa a di i) guitar→ ギター (gi ta a)

Stress When English translated into Japanese as a borrowing words, they sometimes have different stress Example button→ ボタン ribbon→ リボン

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