Hey everyone, today I will just write a short quick lesson before going to do my grocery shopping ^_- I am going to cover many Japanese words that have entered the English language and now have a DIFFERENT pronunciation~!
sushi = sushi
There is no change for this word.
sake -------------->sa-ki
kamikaze --------> kami-kazi
As you can see the "eh" sound is replace with an "ee" sound~!
karate -----------> kara-di
Here the "eh" becomes "ee" and it is a vowel so t becomes d in North American English. Which gives us karadi.
karaoke ----------> kari-oki
Here we have the "eh" to "ee" switch again but we also get the first "ah" sound becoming "ee" as well!
These are the most common Japanese words used in English, there are some others like POKEMON the Nintendo game which I am pretty sure is pronounced like PoKI-mon~~~!
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