26:15 I think the word you are looking for is "a tap" Thank you for a really needed video. Typically this is not taught outside of a university. And it really is something most Japanese language learners want to know.
*Misa has such a beautiful sounding voice.* 1. Pronounce Japanese vowels as you would Spanish vowels. 2. Pronounce Japanese consonants as you would Anglo-Saxon English consonants. 3. Speak "through your teeth" / with you mouth nearly closed. If you watch Japanese speak Japanese, hardly do they open their mouths .
For American English speakers the closest related sound we have to the ra ri ru re ro sounds is when we quickly say LETTER or LADDER. When we speak normally we do not pronounce either the Ts or the Ds in full, it would sound odd if we did. So we tap our tongue on the roof of our mouth just behind our top teeth, and THAT is the closest we come naturally to the Japanese R. (Also if you learn Spanish, you learn the Spanish tap their Ds similarly to the Japanese R.)
Except that it isnt like "just a t or d or r tap". It has a l pronunciation, that means the sound goes alongside your tongue, yet you position your tongue like a tap r.
Speaking fluently and being an expert are two different things. She might have a great speech, but it doesn't mean that she knows the history and the in-depth stuff of the language.
I agree Chris...Mia speaks english so well...she even correctly knows the differnt inflections for UK english vs. American english... I love this channel!
The funny thing is, since I'm German, I don't really have an issue with the vowels. They're actually quite close to how I'm used to pronouncing them (except for う, which is somewhere between u and ü). The ones I find more difficult are し,じ,ち,らりるれろand the different facets of ん. Like how it changes in 繊維(せんい) vs. 安心(あんしん) and again in -番目(-ばんめ).
Thank you so much for your videos Misa Sensei! I've just started to learn Japanese and your channel was such a great find! Your explanation of pronunciation was spot on, really helpful. As a native Portuguese speaker, I feel that the らりるれろ sounds are not too difficult, but the ふ sound is so hard! 😅
I'm also a native Portuguese speaker and didn't have any trouble pronouncing ふ . I guess the sounds we find hard to replicate vary from person to person even though we speak the same language 😅. I'm not sure, but It could also be because I'm a Brazilian-Portuguese speaker (don't know about you), and since Brazilian pronounciation of Portuguese differs quite a lot from other Portuguese-speaking countries and is a little closer to Japanese phonetics, it might've been a helping factor.
@@JorgeBriggs indeed, what I found difficult was that it was something between a hu and a fu, and I was tending more towards fu. I got it right after a little bit more practice. Also Brazilian here by the way.
Misa-sensei, this is a terrific video. It's the best thing I've ever seen on the subject of Nihongo hatsuon. Your explanation of mouth shapes is great! Hontoni subarashii desuyo. Thank you very much.
Awesome video on Japanese pronunciation, being a Native Spanish speaker Japanese is easy to pronounce ,both Spanish and Japanese share a lot of sounds that sound so much alike,we have almost the same 5 vowels:)
I speak Spanish as a second language (started learning in 6th grade back in 1962) and find the Japanese "R" very close to the Spanish intervocalic "R" - ie as in "pero", not as in "perro".
本当にありがとう！ It’s very helpful! This is a class that’s also difficult for the teacher. Thank you for your hard work. Please make more pronunciation videos from time to time.
Misa I had just found you here and the 2 videos so far I've watch I love them. I have been trying to find ways to learn Japanese. Now that I have found you I can. I want to thank you so much. Not only are you helping with pronouncing the words properly you are also helping with spelling. I will be binge watching all your videos this weekend just so I may learn.
I’ve been learning from you for years now, and while watching this video it really struck me how strong your command of English has become. And also how strong your teaching skills are. You are clearly more comfortable and confident in the way you teach now. You are a truly gifted language teacher. Thank you for all your hard work and great lessons.
I really appreciated the way you showed the difference of the sounds btw English and Japanese as well as the tongue position. Could you make more video about pronunciation of other letters? Tks
I really like the way Misa-sensei explains Japanese so that everyone can understand and learn them easily!Please keep going like this it is really helpful for the people who want to learn Japanese! ☆Thank you☆ ☆ありがとうございます☆ ○●○●CHECK POINTS FOR EVERYONE●○●○ 🌸Did you drink water today? 🌸Did you eat anything today? 🌸Did you take your pills?(if you take) 🌸Did you take care of yourself? 🌸Is there something you forgot to do today? {And always love and take care yourself. You are important to your family and friends!Also NEVER GIVE UP and try to make your dreams come true!}
Super helpful to get the nuances of the lingual part of linguistics. How to position your tongue against your teeth and such is super important. I am trying to teach my five-year-old Rs and explaining that tongue position is pretty challenging!
Misa sensei is the best teacher I've ever found👍 I'm really glad that you provide us with deeply detailed lessons, Thank you for the efforts you put in your videos 💕 Today lesson is very great , I wasn't sure how to pronounce the Japanese letters right especially the ら sound, but thanks to you now I know and I shall keep practicing more.✨ + it would be great if u can make other video about pronounciation.👍
You've become such a language master at this point, excellent video as always! I still struggle with the う pronunciation, I have the tendency to go for an "oe" sound (I'm Dutch)
This is great content thanks for that. I sometimes dabble in Duolingo and it finds certain words hard to pick up with my fairly thick Scottish accent but this has helped considerably so I guess it was pronunciation that was the biggest issue.
Fantastic. My wife is third generation (sansei) American and used to hear her mother use Japanese words differently. Your note that masu/desu in Kansai has the ending u sound helped my wife to understand why her mother's Japanese sounded different than in Tokyo. Thank you so much.
Did you consider that I love you? Ohh Misa desu, you were the one who turned me onto Japanese learning. I was going to be learning Russian but your video was in the thumbnail on the side I clicked on it, and I haven't stopped since. Oh Misa child. Misako
I'm so glad that English my 3rd language and in my first 2 native languages, vowel sounds are always pronounced in the same way, so, it was pretty easy to pick up how to properly pronounce vowel sounds, but, R or L and pitch pattern it's all just headache
ive been struggling to pronounce the r's in japanese, everytime i heard a teacher say 'ra' it sounded similar to 'la' or 'da' and i thought you would pronounce it as either la or da. Thank you for the tips!
THANK YOU!!!!!!! I watched like 4 videos and this is the one that finally got me to make the r sound!!! (Now I just gotta practice to make the sound feel more familiar)
I think if I combine your videos with my Japanese from zero books I might actually learn better. Always easier when you have someone to listen to or talk to. Thanks for the lesson. I really appreciate it. Arigato gozaimasu!!
So advanced tip for people who are really confused by the whole DESu, MASu pronounciation, same as I was for a long time. Disclaimer: I am not a linguist, so if I explain something not quite correctly, i actually welcome people correcting me. So to many non-Japanese speakers, these sounds basically sound like you are pronouncing です ます たくさん「沢山」as "des", "mas", "taksan". But this is not actually how most Japanese pronounce it. One pitfall is when you think of desu as des, you pronounce it as one mora (des) instead of two mora like Japanese speakers (de-su). This is not super noticable at the end of a sentence like です, but it is much easier to hear in words like TA-Ku-SA-NN or Su-KO-SHi (たくさん、すこし). One tip that really lifted the fog for me in this is this: You basically still pronounce the U, but you pronounce it unvoiced. Voiced basically means that your vocal cords vibrate, when you pronounce the letter in question. In most languages, all vowels are usually pronounced as voiced. Good way to train this is to say aloud and long vowel uuuuuuuuuuuuuu for like 10 seconds. While doing this, if you place your hand on your throat, you will actually feel your vocal cords vibrating. Now you can try to pronounce the same long vowel uuuuuuuuuuuuuu without the vocal cords vibrating (check with your hand placed on your throat). If you do it correctly, it makes a sound that sound to me a bit like letting air out of a tire. When you can do that, you can try pronouncing です as DE-SU (but with the U unvoiced). And if you can't do it, don't worry too much about it. People will still understand you.
whoa im impressed with your rolled R, in my first language it is pretty strong and native speakers often struggle with that sound at least until school if not their entire lives
The more I watch about how to pronounce Japanese, the more I think that I shouldn't have much problem with it because of how similar it is to the pronunciation of our language. ありがとうございます、みさ先生~
Definitely do more videos on pronunciation! This was very helpful. Please cover the ち, つ and りょう sounds, those always give me trouble. 落ち着いて remains difficult for me to say.
I tought myself the japanese R just for the fun of it. And this was the first time I actually watched an explanation of it, and lo and behold, I was doing it perfectly correct!! I am so happy :) It was such a hurdle though, to try to make an R sound with your tongue. Since I'm German, my R is even more different than for the English, we do our R completely by throat!
Congratulations Misa! You explained very well how to pronounce the vowels, the ふ sound and the "R+vowels" column (which are perhaps the most difficult for foreigners to understand). Being Portuguese, Japanese sounds are not strange (we have all of them in Portuguese, including how to say the "r") but there are subtleties that become confusing for those who hear Japanese pronounced in different ways. My biggest doubt was related to the "R": "Ra, Ri, Ru, Re, Ro", "La, Li, Lu, Le, Lo" and "Da, Di, Du, De, Do". From the beginning I learned and say "ra, ri, ru re, ro" as you taught, but I managed to improve, making it sound a little closer to "da, di, du, de, do" (I say "ra" thinking on how to say "da" and I can say a "ra" closer to the one you taught). Anyway, maybe I'm not explaining myself well, but I really enjoyed your video!
to somebody who speaks flemish-dutch, the vowels are very similar only the u becomes eu and e becomes the french è , but we combine all the vowels as well to make more dual vowels
omg yes i moved to the gloriously unintelligible flemish speaking west flanders 2 years ago (from a slavic country) and any attempt i make at trying to pronounce your complex vowels always has people laugh and tell me i sound like a russian cleaning lady =.= but im not giving up, merely through running some everyday errands i learned to understand (not speak) a lot of flemish and i can FINALLY hear these horrendous sounds in my head clearly as i see them spelled lol also i dont think any other language has this many distinct vowels, so many you need crazy combos to spell it, aa ee ie ei ij oo uu eu ou and so on, jesus sometimes that weird W sneaking in like in vrouw. this is becoming a full blown essay of a comment im sorry. just wanted to add that flemish sounds very pretty to me, while i cant stand hearing dutch-dutch
@@bambipickle great post, you had me laughing so hard, surprise: I'm a full blown West-Vlaming myself and will stay so forever. You do have my sympathy in learning our language, I mean even neighbouring provinces struggle to understand us, lol. I am kind of proud my province is so stubborn in keeping our dialect alive against official pressure to speak proper Dutch.
@@daveangels hahaha im glad i made you laugh, though the frustration in learning is REAL especially that the locals speak west flemish that i heard is "incomprehensible babble" even to people from like, gent which is so close. I think dialects are fascinating and weird cause my 1st language doesnt have any and the differences in language are tiny across regions:( and i really dont think Flemings will ever succumb to pressure to speak "properly", the dialects seem to be alive and well, in my college there's a lot of people from other regions and they basically sound funny and foreign to each other it's crazy (if you know what i mean). also glad to hear youre west flemish PROUDLY cause i heard the stereotype is that it's this underdeveloped catholic farmer shithole... i like it though it is very cozy and i love seeing tractors casually strolling main streets of my town (which i wont name but i got to say it sits on the french AND walloon border so that might give you an idea)
@@bambipickle glad to hear you like it, i'm closer to the coast myself, a small village not that far from Bruges, lived here my whole life, i do hope our dialect keeps going, young children are all brought up in proper Dutch, but luckily once they start to grow up a lot of them start to talk dialect again with their friends :). it is true that even on the smallest of distances , even almost village to village different words are being used. The whole catholic thing is dying out , no worries, give it another generation.
The funny thing about pronounciation tips is that it's fun to see how native English speakers has to adjust their Japanese pronounciation, especially with wovels, while in Finnish, the wovels sounds very similar, and if someone wants to sound like native speaker, watching TH-cam videos, like yours goes long way. Myself I already have the speech in very good shape, only thing is that I have to start memorizing the kanji which is going to be a massive pain since I'm still in the start line, but I'm very certain that some day I'll get it! がんばります！
Im kinda thankful i was born in poland. Polish 'r' is similar to the japanese one, so i had almost no problem learning how to pronounce it. Thanks for the video!
15:41 so for this one do we also need to do the high to low pitch mora for Chiisai? Or is that only when the word starts with a leading vowel? Also I just want to point out that Misa is a next level sensei, because this kind of nuance is not typically taught in a lot of Japanese instructional videos(at least not beginner level stuff) here on TH-cam so just want to say I appreciate you Misa :D
For 小さい it's chi-I-SA-i (lower cases being low pitched and upper cases being high pitched). There are different patterns to pitch accent though. If you wanna look up the pitch accent for a certain word i recommend using either Prosody Tutor or Kanshudo, and if you want an in depth explanation Dogen has pretty good content about it.
I'm glad that i'm a portuguese native speaker, and my vowels sound pretty much the same as they do in japanese. One of the reasons I picked japanese to learn.
I really appreciate the effort you put into making these lessons. It's helped convert my "textbook" Japanese to "real world" Japanese.
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26:15 I think the word you are looking for is "a tap"
Thank you for a really needed video. Typically this is not taught outside of a university. And it really is something most Japanese language learners want to know.
I wonder if Misa is a certified language teacher--she certainly has a command of teaching all aspects of language learning...
*Misa has such a beautiful sounding voice.*
1. Pronounce Japanese vowels as you would Spanish vowels.
2. Pronounce Japanese consonants as you would Anglo-Saxon English consonants.
3. Speak "through your teeth" / with you mouth nearly closed.
If you watch Japanese speak Japanese, hardly do they open their mouths .
For American English speakers the closest related sound we have to the ra ri ru re ro sounds is when we quickly say LETTER or LADDER. When we speak normally we do not pronounce either the Ts or the Ds in full, it would sound odd if we did. So we tap our tongue on the roof of our mouth just behind our top teeth, and THAT is the closest we come naturally to the Japanese R. (Also if you learn Spanish, you learn the Spanish tap their Ds similarly to the Japanese R.)
Exactly, other good examples would be "kitty" or "kiddy"
Latter vs ladder. That one trips me up how it sounds the same!
I know portuguese and it is a blessing that portuguese sounds are the same as japanese xD
Except that it isnt like "just a t or d or r tap".
It has a l pronunciation, that means the sound goes alongside your tongue, yet you position your tongue like a tap r.
The phonetic term is a "flap" if you're looking to reproduce this explanation to someone unfamiliar with how Americans speak.
Your videos have really made learning Japanese so much easier so thank you!!
"I'm not an expert in English"!?! Don't be dense Misa. You are FLUENT! If i could speak Japanese like you speak English I would die a happy man!
Speaking fluently and being an expert are two different things. She might have a great speech, but it doesn't mean that she knows the history and the in-depth stuff of the language.
I agree Chris...Mia speaks english so well...she even correctly knows the differnt inflections for UK english vs. American english... I love this channel!
This is EXACTLY what I've been needing!! I love linguistics and really want to improve my accent/pronunciation. Thank you SO MUCH Misa sensei♡
The funny thing is, since I'm German, I don't really have an issue with the vowels. They're actually quite close to how I'm used to pronouncing them (except for う, which is somewhere between u and ü). The ones I find more difficult are し,じ,ち,らりるれろand the different facets of ん. Like how it changes in 繊維(せんい) vs. 安心(あんしん) and again in -番目(-ばんめ).
the desu masu explanation was very welcome.
The title of this video cleared up the pronunciation of “Desu.” I knew something was going to be uploaded. Thanks.
Misa is putting so much work into these :)
ありがとうございます、先生
Thank you so much for your videos Misa Sensei! I've just started to learn Japanese and your channel was such a great find! Your explanation of pronunciation was spot on, really helpful. As a native Portuguese speaker, I feel that the らりるれろ sounds are not too difficult, but the ふ sound is so hard! 😅
I'm also a native Portuguese speaker and didn't have any trouble pronouncing ふ . I guess the sounds we find hard to replicate vary from person to person even though we speak the same language 😅. I'm not sure, but It could also be because I'm a Brazilian-Portuguese speaker (don't know about you), and since Brazilian pronounciation of Portuguese differs quite a lot from other Portuguese-speaking countries and is a little closer to Japanese phonetics, it might've been a helping factor.
@@JorgeBriggs indeed, what I found difficult was that it was something between a hu and a fu, and I was tending more towards fu. I got it right after a little bit more practice. Also Brazilian here by the way.
Don't round the lips, that's the key. Say "roda" (circle) without rounding the lips, and you are halfway there, just change the vowel.
@@jaycee330 that works :)
Thanks for the tip.
Misa-sensei, this is a terrific video. It's the best thing I've ever seen on the subject of Nihongo hatsuon. Your explanation of mouth shapes is great! Hontoni subarashii desuyo. Thank you very much.
Awesome video on Japanese pronunciation, being a Native Spanish speaker Japanese is easy to pronounce ,both Spanish and Japanese share a lot of sounds that sound so much alike,we have almost the same 5 vowels:)
I speak Spanish as a second language (started learning in 6th grade back in 1962) and find the Japanese "R" very close to the Spanish intervocalic "R" - ie as in "pero", not as in "perro".
ミサ先生のチャネルが大好きです！🫶🏻💕
本当にありがとう！ It’s very helpful! This is a class that’s also difficult for the teacher. Thank you for your hard work. Please make more pronunciation videos from time to time.
Thank you so much! Your videos are always so useful. 💕
I just love it when you point out our typical mistakes and laugh!!! 🤣🤣🤣 thank you Misa for another great video!😘
Misa I had just found you here and the 2 videos so far I've watch I love them. I have been trying to find ways to learn Japanese. Now that I have found you I can. I want to thank you so much. Not only are you helping with pronouncing the words properly you are also helping with spelling. I will be binge watching all your videos this weekend just so I may learn.
So far, this is one of the better explanations of the "r" sound I've found so far. Thank you. You got a new subscriber.
I’ve been learning from you for years now, and while watching this video it really struck me how strong your command of English has become. And also how strong your teaching skills are. You are clearly more comfortable and confident in the way you teach now. You are a truly gifted language teacher. Thank you for all your hard work and great lessons.
Thanks Misa! You will turn us into fluent Japanese speakers 😁👍
I can't wait to hear this explained - thank you in advance.
ありがとうございますみさ先生
Please make a lot of video for kanji 😭💕💕
Beautifully done. Love the video. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much, you are one of my fave channels to watch.
ありがとう ございます!!! Especially for the part with the "r" sound. You did it Misa, finally I can pronounce it! Hell yeah.
I really appreciated the way you showed the difference of the sounds btw English and Japanese as well as the tongue position. Could you make more video about pronunciation of other letters? Tks
Your visual on R sounds is super super helpful!! Thank you!
I really like the way Misa-sensei explains Japanese so that everyone can understand and learn them easily!Please keep going like this it is really helpful for the people who want to learn Japanese!
☆Thank you☆
☆ありがとうございます☆
○●○●CHECK POINTS FOR EVERYONE●○●○
🌸Did you drink water today?
🌸Did you eat anything today?
🌸Did you take your pills?(if you take)
🌸Did you take care of yourself?
🌸Is there something you forgot to do today?
{And always love and take care yourself. You are important to your family and friends!Also NEVER GIVE UP and try to make your dreams come true!}
Super helpful to get the nuances of the lingual part of linguistics. How to position your tongue against your teeth and such is super important. I am trying to teach my five-year-old Rs and explaining that tongue position is pretty challenging!
Your explanation is very good and clear, that's great
Saving this video for after work. Needed this! Asked this question awhile ago been waiting for an answer
Your videos are soo helpful ❤️❤️
The vowels are exactly the way I was tought in Choir, so that's pretty neat
It's just how the vowel should be actually... 99% of languages in the world uses that way. 😅
@@CobraMJD True lol. I guess it was more emphasized in choir because my teachers thought it was more imporant than when you're just speaking
Misa sensei is the best teacher I've ever found👍 I'm really glad that you provide us with deeply detailed lessons, Thank you for the efforts you put in your videos 💕 Today lesson is very great , I wasn't sure how to pronounce the Japanese letters right especially the ら sound, but thanks to you now I know and I shall keep practicing more.✨ + it would be great if u can make other video about pronounciation.👍
Thank you Misa!
こんにちはみさ先生これが面白くて発音を練習のために役に立った時々ふとらりるれろに自信がないけどこの動画の説明が分かる安かったいつもありがとうございますところで髪がめっちゃくちゃ綺麗で似合う
Misa, awesome approach to teaching pronunciation, the diagrams and using your hand to simulate how the tongue should move were really helpful!
You've become such a language master at this point, excellent video as always! I still struggle with the う pronunciation, I have the tendency to go for an "oe" sound (I'm Dutch)
This is great content thanks for that. I sometimes dabble in Duolingo and it finds certain words hard to pick up with my fairly thick Scottish accent but this has helped considerably so I guess it was pronunciation that was the biggest issue.
"Fu" uses the voiceless bilabial fricative for those of us that know IPA. As opposed to "f" in English which is the voiceless libido-dental fricative
Really good at explaining these ideas. I got some good practice in too because you build that in. Thanks!
Please watch
Fantastic lesson! Finally I understand how to pronounce R sound in japanese :)
SHI and JI are still my week point though.
ありがとうございます！みさ先生‼
Thank you for the effort you put into making this video. Really helped me learn some new things!
Signed up your patreon. Your videos have helped me get a teaching job in Japan. You’re awesome 👏🏻
Fantastic. My wife is third generation (sansei) American and used to hear her mother use Japanese words differently. Your note that masu/desu in Kansai has the ending u sound helped my wife to understand why her mother's Japanese sounded different than in Tokyo. Thank you so much.
I'm sure you are bored doing these beginner video lessons Misa but they do n gave help us beginners! Hello from the USA. 👍
Did you consider that I love you? Ohh Misa desu, you were the one who turned me onto Japanese learning. I was going to be learning Russian but your video was in the thumbnail on the side I clicked on it, and I haven't stopped since. Oh Misa child. Misako
Very useful details !!
どうもありがとう !
This is PERFECT!!! This is exactly the kind of video I’m looking for when perfecting my Japanese. Please make more
I'm so glad that English my 3rd language and in my first 2 native languages, vowel sounds are always pronounced in the same way, so, it was pretty easy to pick up how to properly pronounce vowel sounds, but, R or L and pitch pattern it's all just headache
ive been struggling to pronounce the r's in japanese, everytime i heard a teacher say 'ra' it sounded similar to 'la' or 'da' and i thought you would pronounce it as either la or da. Thank you for the tips!
I really appreciate the time and effort you put into your videos. They really help a lot with learning this language. Thank you so much 🧡
Those damn hidden う's... Trip me up constantly in writing😂
THANK YOU!!!!!!! I watched like 4 videos and this is the one that finally got me to make the r sound!!! (Now I just gotta practice to make the sound feel more familiar)
I think if I combine your videos with my Japanese from zero books I might actually learn better. Always easier when you have someone to listen to or talk to. Thanks for the lesson. I really appreciate it. Arigato gozaimasu!!
Ms. Misa. Thank you. Love you for giving valuable videos 😊
So advanced tip for people who are really confused by the whole DESu, MASu pronounciation, same as I was for a long time. Disclaimer: I am not a linguist, so if I explain something not quite correctly, i actually welcome people correcting me.
So to many non-Japanese speakers, these sounds basically sound like you are pronouncing です ます たくさん「沢山」as "des", "mas", "taksan". But this is not actually how most Japanese pronounce it. One pitfall is when you think of desu as des, you pronounce it as one mora (des) instead of two mora like Japanese speakers (de-su). This is not super noticable at the end of a sentence like です, but it is much easier to hear in words like TA-Ku-SA-NN or Su-KO-SHi (たくさん、すこし).
One tip that really lifted the fog for me in this is this: You basically still pronounce the U, but you pronounce it unvoiced.
Voiced basically means that your vocal cords vibrate, when you pronounce the letter in question. In most languages, all vowels are usually pronounced as voiced.
Good way to train this is to say aloud and long vowel uuuuuuuuuuuuuu for like 10 seconds. While doing this, if you place your hand on your throat, you will actually feel your vocal cords vibrating. Now you can try to pronounce the same long vowel uuuuuuuuuuuuuu without the vocal cords vibrating (check with your hand placed on your throat). If you do it correctly, it makes a sound that sound to me a bit like letting air out of a tire. When you can do that, you can try pronouncing です as DE-SU (but with the U unvoiced).
And if you can't do it, don't worry too much about it. People will still understand you.
If you can't do it, you'll just be mistaken for someone from Kansai.
Thank you so much! Really helped me with the Japanese R 💕😊
I always had trouble pronaunciating the word 水泳 instead of (suiei) i said something like (sueei) This video really helped me, thank you Misa-Sensei! 🖤
whoa im impressed with your rolled R, in my first language it is pretty strong and native speakers often struggle with that sound at least until school if not their entire lives
i don’t have trouble with pronunciation, but i have a lot of trouble with long vowels so this was pretty helpful
The more I watch about how to pronounce Japanese, the more I think that I shouldn't have much problem with it because of how similar it is to the pronunciation of our language.
ありがとうございます、みさ先生~
Your lessons are so good!! Thank you 🙏
I need to review your lesson. Thank you.
thank you so much Misa ! it's great lesson
Thank you so much for this video, this was very helpful for a beginner like me! :)
ふ is so hard for some reason, but now I at least understand how to pronounce it I think. Thanks!
I just found this channel you are are a great instructor with a great personality =j I need this to be more prepared for my trip to Japan.
Another great video Misa and a subject a lot of people don't get right. Especially the R's.
みさ先生、存在ありがとうございます ♡
These explanations remind me of my 1st year in phonology in linguistics in UWI. Very clear and scientific. Subarashi!!
What an interesting video. That 日本語を勉強していますぅ〜〜〜〜 was hilarious! i'm gonna talk like that from now on lol
Definitely do more videos on pronunciation! This was very helpful. Please cover the ち, つ and りょう sounds, those always give me trouble. 落ち着いて remains difficult for me to say.
This was very much needed, thank you. I was wondering about most of these and now i know how to pronounce them.
みさ先生、手伝ってくれてありがとうございました!
I tought myself the japanese R just for the fun of it. And this was the first time I actually watched an explanation of it, and lo and behold, I was doing it perfectly correct!! I am so happy :)
It was such a hurdle though, to try to make an R sound with your tongue. Since I'm German, my R is even more different than for the English, we do our R completely by throat!
Hope you're feeling okay Misa :)
Reduction and simplification of consonants is quite understandable, but the same with vowels is something really new
Brilliant as always
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ありがとうございましたみささん。
This channel is awesome. Thanks!
Great stuff as always 先生！おつかれさまでした🙏🏻✨ (wonderful Care Bears dress also! ☺️🌸🐻).
ありがとうみさ先生
Ty so much! I learned so much from you already! ありがとう！
Congratulations Misa!
You explained very well how to pronounce the vowels, the ふ sound and the "R+vowels" column (which are perhaps the most difficult for foreigners to understand).
Being Portuguese, Japanese sounds are not strange (we have all of them in Portuguese, including how to say the "r") but there are subtleties that become confusing for those who hear Japanese pronounced in different ways. My biggest doubt was related to the "R": "Ra, Ri, Ru, Re, Ro", "La, Li, Lu, Le, Lo" and "Da, Di, Du, De, Do". From the beginning I learned and say "ra, ri, ru re, ro" as you taught, but I managed to improve, making it sound a little closer to "da, di, du, de, do" (I say "ra" thinking on how to say "da" and I can say a "ra" closer to the one you taught).
Anyway, maybe I'm not explaining myself well, but I really enjoyed your video!
to somebody who speaks flemish-dutch, the vowels are very similar only the u becomes eu and e becomes the french è , but we combine all the vowels as well to make more dual vowels
omg yes i moved to the gloriously unintelligible flemish speaking west flanders 2 years ago (from a slavic country) and any attempt i make at trying to pronounce your complex vowels always has people laugh and tell me i sound like a russian cleaning lady =.= but im not giving up, merely through running some everyday errands i learned to understand (not speak) a lot of flemish and i can FINALLY hear these horrendous sounds in my head clearly as i see them spelled lol also i dont think any other language has this many distinct vowels, so many you need crazy combos to spell it, aa ee ie ei ij oo uu eu ou and so on, jesus sometimes that weird W sneaking in like in vrouw. this is becoming a full blown essay of a comment im sorry. just wanted to add that flemish sounds very pretty to me, while i cant stand hearing dutch-dutch
@@bambipickle great post, you had me laughing so hard, surprise: I'm a full blown West-Vlaming myself and will stay so forever. You do have my sympathy in learning our language, I mean even neighbouring provinces struggle to understand us, lol. I am kind of proud my province is so stubborn in keeping our dialect alive against official pressure to speak proper Dutch.
@@daveangels hahaha im glad i made you laugh, though the frustration in learning is REAL especially that the locals speak west flemish that i heard is "incomprehensible babble" even to people from like, gent which is so close. I think dialects are fascinating and weird cause my 1st language doesnt have any and the differences in language are tiny across regions:( and i really dont think Flemings will ever succumb to pressure to speak "properly", the dialects seem to be alive and well, in my college there's a lot of people from other regions and they basically sound funny and foreign to each other it's crazy (if you know what i mean). also glad to hear youre west flemish PROUDLY cause i heard the stereotype is that it's this underdeveloped catholic farmer shithole... i like it though it is very cozy and i love seeing tractors casually strolling main streets of my town (which i wont name but i got to say it sits on the french AND walloon border so that might give you an idea)
@@bambipickle glad to hear you like it, i'm closer to the coast myself, a small village not that far from Bruges, lived here my whole life, i do hope our dialect keeps going, young children are all brought up in proper Dutch, but luckily once they start to grow up a lot of them start to talk dialect again with their friends :). it is true that even on the smallest of distances , even almost village to village different words are being used. The whole catholic thing is dying out , no worries, give it another generation.
This was great! Thank you!
The funny thing about pronounciation tips is that it's fun to see how native English speakers has to adjust their Japanese pronounciation, especially with wovels, while in Finnish, the wovels sounds very similar, and if someone wants to sound like native speaker, watching TH-cam videos, like yours goes long way. Myself I already have the speech in very good shape, only thing is that I have to start memorizing the kanji which is going to be a massive pain since I'm still in the start line, but I'm very certain that some day I'll get it! がんばります！
I took Spanish in high school, so most of the Japanese sounds aren’t too difficult for me, but I accidentally roll my r’s sometimes. ¡Arrrrrrrrigatou!
I like the ninja bunny😌 I know how hard it is to explain Japanese for non Japanese speakers. This channel is great♡
Im kinda thankful i was born in poland. Polish 'r' is similar to the japanese one, so i had almost no problem learning how to pronounce it. Thanks for the video!
OMG! I LOVE your content! Thank you so much for all the details
15:41 so for this one do we also need to do the high to low pitch mora for Chiisai? Or is that only when the word starts with a leading vowel?
Also I just want to point out that Misa is a next level sensei, because this kind of nuance is not typically taught in a lot of Japanese instructional videos(at least not beginner level stuff) here on TH-cam so just want to say I appreciate you Misa :D
For 小さい it's chi-I-SA-i (lower cases being low pitched and upper cases being high pitched). There are different patterns to pitch accent though. If you wanna look up the pitch accent for a certain word i recommend using either Prosody Tutor or Kanshudo, and if you want an in depth explanation Dogen has pretty good content about it.
@@_syzygy_ Misa covered pitch accent in a previous video.
@@jaycee330 i know, but its very shallow compared to Dogen who has a whole series of videos about it
Obrigada, excelente aula! 💖
This video is so useful! Thank you so much!💛
I'm glad that i'm a portuguese native speaker, and my vowels sound pretty much the same as they do in japanese. One of the reasons I picked japanese to learn.