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Ruby Chan:
Thankyou so much! That really makes it much easier to understand! So are all the consonant sounds the same as in english then?
Sakaki:
Okay, I accidentaly got rid of the post I posted before Ruby Chan's.
Blasted computer browser!
R sounds different in Japanese then R in English.
Think of almost an L. Kind of like a Spanish R, but no roll.
T is going to sound a bit different in Japanese also.
Think of how Yuki says Touya. An English T is sharper than Japanese many times.
Also on many words you'll hear them pronounce the N by itself. I'm not positive yet if it depends on the word, or if it's just the preference of the speaker.
My favorite Seiyuu Seki Tomokazu seems to like to really emphasize his N's.
Aw, it's so cute.
I've been studying Japanese for about a year now by watching Anime everyday with the sound way up so I can hear the words well and by downloading as much music as I can and learning the words to the songs. You'll pick up the pronounciating pretty fast just by doing those things.
Also, if you watch the interviews with the Seiyuu on the anime dvd's you get, it's really helpful for hearing how Japanese is spoken in a regular conversation.
Ruby Chan:
I did that on a Fruits Basket DVD....do all japanese people say 'hai' every other word when they're listening to someone, or is that just Yuki and Tohru's seiyuu?
Sakaki:
Hai is the word they use for yes.
It gets used for a lot though. Like here we'd be going, "uhuh" while someone is talking to show we understand. They'll say, hai, for that.
I've seen that word range from formal, "yes, sir." to very informal like, "uhuh."
So you can think of it as similiar to our yes.
And from what I've seen they do use it alot.
Ruby Chan, if you want to see some really sugoi interviews, you should get the D.N. Angel dvds. They have interviews with the guy who does Daisuke and the guy who sings the theme song. It's good to watch both guy and girl interviews, because guys will use different words than girls will. So, you can become familiar with which words those are.
I like how they say sugoi alot. For some reason I find that really kawaii!
I'm waiting for Fruits Basket 3 to come right now, I think it has the interview with Seki on it!
LemonPing:
yume = dream
no= of
kimi= you
hitori no boku = i am alone [one person]
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