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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:43 pm

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I heard in Japanese that the R cannot be pronunced so they pronunouced like as an L. is it safe to just replace R with L?

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no its is the opposite way around. There is no L so it is replaced with an R.

ohh! i never knew that! thanks. where did you learn that?

I am in my own Japanese class IRL

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:04 pm

is this sentence right?

Watashi wa gakusei desu.

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Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:27 am

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is this sentence right?

Watashi wa gakusei desu.

was that right? question

lol yeah that's right but keeping in mind alot of japanese words can mean 4 different things...If you said that sentence out of the blue people might think you mean that you're a celebrated musician lol. But yeah that's right completely xd .

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 2:23 pm

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is this sentence right?

Watashi wa gakusei desu.

was that right? question

lol yeah that's right but keeping in mind alot of japanese words can mean 4 different things...If you said that sentence out of the blue people might think you mean that you're a celebrated musician lol. But yeah that's right completely xd .

what does that mean?

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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 1:08 am

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is this sentence right?

Watashi wa gakusei desu.

was that right? question

lol yeah that's right but keeping in mind alot of japanese words can mean 4 different things...If you said that sentence out of the blue people might think you mean that you're a celebrated musician lol. But yeah that's right completely xd .

what does that mean?

It means 'I am a student'

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:28 am

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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:02 am

Vincent Valentine-Jenova

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I heard in Japanese that the R cannot be pronunced so they pronunouced like as an L. is it safe to just replace R with L?

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no its is the opposite way around. There is no L so it is replaced with an R.

The sound that's actually made is in between L and R. Where for L you would flatten your tongue against the roof of your mouth and for R you kind of curl your tongue, for the actual sound in Japanese it's kind of in-between with the tip of your tongue touching the roof of your mouth near your teeth and curled a bit. It's a very literal way of teaching pronunciation and all, but it does kind of help because there is a world of a difference in where you put your tongue and how you shape it when you're making sounds with your mouth.

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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:19 pm

Could there be a section about "ben"? Y'know, like Kansai-ben, Osaka-ben, etc.

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:08 am

You people offer so much help to such newcomers.

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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 3:19 am

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Could there be a section about "ben"? Y'know, like Kansai-ben, Osaka-ben, etc.

Kansai-ben is the same as Osaka-ben I believe...Kansai is that area of Osaka, Nara, Kyoto, etc. I speak Chugoku-ben--not China, Hiroshima, Wakayama (i think) area dialect. People don't usually use "ben" if you're talking to random people on the street, they use universal Japanese (hyojungo), and nowadays there isn't much of a fluctuation of ben. But if you want to know some Kansai-ben is characteristics there are less syllables in certain words and desu is replaced with "ya" at times, there's more, but that's all I can remember for now.

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