How do you pronounce names of anime characters?

Blackangel

Blackangel

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is it easy for you to pronounce them?
or is it hard to repeat them like kawasaki, sakakibara, or any other complicated name lol
 
Grungie said:
This is the first time I heard Kawasaki being a complicated name.
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lol, at first i pronounced it as 'kavsaki'
and it was hard for me to pronounce it lol. and what's the most complicated name according to you grungie? i highly doubt i can pronounce it, if it's hard even for you.
 
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lol, at first i pronounced it as 'kavsaki'
and it was hard for me to pronounce it lol. and what's the most complicated name according to you grungie? i highly doubt i can pronounce it, if it's hard even for you.
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Kawasaki’s a fairly well known name in America, they make motorcycles.

I can’t think of a name I find difficult for me to pronounce, not trying to flex, but when you know how hiragana and katakana are pronounced, it’s super easy.

The only names that I think would be hard for native English speakers would be ones where the pronunciation throws people off, like Hiroomi. It’s not pronounced like Hirumi, but Hiro-omi.
 
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Kawasaki’s a fairly well known name in America, they make motorcycles.

I can’t think of a name I find difficult for me to pronounce, not trying to flex, but when you know how hiragana and katakana are pronounced, it’s super easy.

The only names that I think would be hard for native English speakers would be ones where the pronunciation throws people off, like Hiroomi. It’s not pronounced like Hirumi, but Hiro-omi.
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lol there is this thing about knowing and then about using and discussing about lol
oh wow true that. and hirromi if i pronounce it, it will be still come out as weird lol
 
Star_Of_Hope said:
It's not that difficult.
Probably because I am an Asian and we usually don't have much of an accent
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You more than likely do, a lot of people just think they don't have an accent. The continent of origin doesn't mean anything when different language families exist. Even with Europeans, just because you're Italian doesn't mean you're naturally good at speaking Russian, because Italian is a Romance language and Russian is Slavic. Being a native Italian speaker would give you an edge on Spanish or Portuguese because all 3 are Romance languages.
 
Grungie said:
You more than likely do, a lot of people just think they don't have an accent. The continent of origin doesn't mean anything when different language families exist. Even with Europeans, just because you're Italian doesn't mean you're naturally good at speaking Russian, because Italian is a Romance language and Russian is Slavic. Being a native Italian speaker would give you an edge on Spanish or Portuguese because all 3 are Romance languages.
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Are you sure?
Most of the people can master their sister languages easily. May be Star can too
 
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Are you sure?
Most of the people can master their sister languages easily. May be Star can too
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There’s a difference between accents and learning grammar and grammatical structures. People live in America and speak English for decades and still have a noticeable accent. I’ve been speaking Japanese for 30 years and they can still tell I’m not a native speaker.

So statistically the chances of someone who learned a language a couple years ago and isn’t fluent not having an accent is very low.
 
Grungie said:
You more than likely do, a lot of people just think they don't have an accent. The continent of origin doesn't mean anything when different language families exist. Even with Europeans, just because you're Italian doesn't mean you're naturally good at speaking Russian, because Italian is a Romance language and Russian is Slavic. Being a native Italian speaker would give you an edge on Spanish or Portuguese because all 3 are Romance languages.
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I see
From whatever information I gathered, our country people don't have much accent. May be I need even more information then
 
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I see
From whatever information I gathered, our country people don't have much accent. May be I need even more information then
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In general or with speaking Japanese? If it’s the latter I’ve seen a handful of Indians as guests on NHK and without watching, you can hear they’re foreigners. Though I also couldn’t tell you what their native language is, because India has a gajillion languages, so that could be a factor.
 
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There’s a difference between accents and learning grammar and grammatical structures. People live in America and speak English for decades and still have a noticeable accent. I’ve been speaking Japanese for 30 years and they can still tell I’m not a native speaker.

So statistically the chances of someone who learned a language a couple years ago and isn’t fluent not having an accent is very low.
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Based on the statistics you are right. It's just that I know couple of my American friends who can speak with British accent and no one can tell they are not native speakers.
 
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Based on the statistics you are right. It's just that I know couple of my American friends who can speak with British accent and no one can tell they are not native speakers.
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Could just be your friends not recognizing it, as that contrasts heavily from my time in England where they could tell we were Americans trying to sound British. Unless it’s one of those accents that’s really easy for Americans to fake.

America and Canada have similar accents, but there’s signs you can hear that someone’s Canadian. It didn’t take me long to find out the Youtuber Nitro Rad was Canadian without him mentioning he’s from Nova Scotia, the heavy OU sound in his words is pretty Canadian. Same thing with Avril Lavigne in her song Complicated. In the first line “Chill OUt whatcha waiting for”
 
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In general or with speaking Japanese? If it’s the latter I’ve seen a handful of Indians as guests on NHK and without watching, you can hear they’re foreigners. Though I also couldn’t tell you what their native language is, because India has a gajillion languages, so that could be a factor.
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they got too many languages? i thought it's just one or two or at most 5 lol
and that tells me it's hard to master accent. and i am sure your japanese is good grunge.
 
DiamondDust said:
I pronounce as i want to lol my language pronounce and japanese pronounce kinda similar
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wow d and i never knew that and that's cool
then it should be easy or you to pronounce anything without much struggle unlike me
 
I am not an avid watcher of animes in the native language, outside of English and German. If it is a name that I am unfamiliar with, I will base my pronunciation on what the show pronounces it, and if I know anyone that knows the proper pronunciations for it.
 
There's some pretty generic names that can pop up a lot in anime which I wouldn't have much issue pronouncing, but yeah some of the less common names I can not only struggle to pronounce but even remember.
 
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