This is the pronunciation guide for the Japanese words of this blog only since I acknowledge that there are different methods of indicating how Japanese words are pronounced.
A – as in “a” in “arm”
B – as the “b” in “boy”
D – as the “d” in “dog”
E – as the “e” in bet
F – as the “f” in “fork” and sometimes as the “h” in “hat”
G – as the “g” in “good”
H – as the “h” in “hat”
I – as the “i” in “hit”, sometimes diminished or unpronounced
J – as the “j” in “joy”
K – as the “k” in “keep”
M – as the “m” in “man”
N – as the “n” in “no”
O – as the “o” in “or”
P – as the “p” in “pot”
R – as the “r” in “rat”
S – as the “s” in “sad”
T – as the “t” in “toy”
U – as the “u” in put, sometimes diminished or unpronounced
W – as the “w” of “wash”
Y – as the “y” in “yoyo”
Z – as the “z” in “zoo”
With apostrophe ( ‘ ) or double consonants (e.g. bokken or bok’en, ippon or ip’on) – the consonant sound is held longer almost as if there are two different words.
Vowels with hat ( ˆ ) or repeated vowels (e.g. hoo or hô, seetaa or sêtâ)
Sounds of differing consecutive vowels are blended (e.g. the “ai” of “wakarinai” or “itai” is pronounced like the English word “eye”).
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