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    LESSON NOTES

    Ultimate Japanese Pronunciation


    Guide #3
    Perfect Pronunciation of The 5
    Japanese Vowels

    CONTENTS
    2 Grammar

    # 3
    COPYRIGHT © 2015 INNOVATIVE LANGUAGE LEARNING. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
    GRAMMAR

    T he Focus of t he Le sson is Mast e ring Japane se Vowe ls

    First we will go over Japanese vowels, which is one of the easiest areas of pronunciation.
    English has the same five vowels as Japanese (a, e, i, o, and u), but if you consider all of
    the ways you can pronounce English vowels, you end up with twenty different sounds! In
    Japanese, the sounds that the vowels make do not change. They sound very similar to the
    vowels found in Spanish or Italian. Let's take a look at them:

    1. a - pronounced "ah," like the "a" in "father"

    2. e - pronounced "eh," like the "e" in "net"

    3. i - pronounced "ee," like the "ee" in "meet"*

    4. o - pronounced "oh," like the first part of the "o" sound in "so"

    5. u - pronounced "oo," like the "oo" in "mood," but with the lips less rounded*

    De voicing
    There is one small exception for the pronunciations of "i" and "u" that we will call
    devoicing. That means that they become almost "whispered." This happens when these
    vowels come between two of the voiceless consonants: p, t, k, s, or h. For example, in
    words like shika ("deer") and hiku ("to pull"), the "i" sound is almost inaudible. This
    regularly occurs at the ends of the grammatical endings desu and masu as well, which are
    pronounced [dess] and [mahs], respectively.

    JAPANESEPOD101.COM ULTIMATE JAPANESE PRONUNCIATION GUIDE #3 - PERFECT PRONUNCIATION OF THE 5 JAPANESE VOWELS 2

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