Japanese pronunciation

[BKJ1216]

Anyone got some good guides on how to pronoune japanese words? I was looking at one site and though i had it down beore i ran into hangetsu-dachi. I thought it was hon-gee-zoo-dah-chee but someone said I was wrong.

[ninjanurse]

In my experience, all vowels are pronounced and are similar to the sounds in spanish. The vowel "Y" is not pronounced but is part of the vowel after it so that it is not a separate syllable.

 

[CheekyMusician]

There's a lot of good sites on the 'net that explain this better than I will.

 

Basically, though:

 

a is pronounced ah

 

i is pronounced ih

 

u is pronounced ooh

 

e is pronounced eh

 

o is pronounced aw

 

So Ha would be pronounced hah. The 'n' is pronounced like you would expect it to be. Ge is pronounced geh and tsu is pronounced like the beginning of the word Tsunami.

 

So its pronounced Hah-n-geh-tsu dah-chee.

[BKJ1216]

alright thanks