Yeah there’s no tone or enunciation you need to master relatively except learing how to pronounce L and R at the same time for ra/la ri/li ru/lu re/le ro/lo.
I’ve heard from a uni mate that Chinese grammar is more straight forward and similar to English compared to Japanese.
My “sensei” at uni loved me for having really good pronunciation and it was from watching fucking hours of Japanese as a teen and learning how Japanese people actually speak vs anime nonsense.
Chinese writing is probably a bit easier as well (aside from the apparent lack of punctuation) since it was simplified. Kanji is basically the only reason why I gave up on learning Japanese a few years back
how Japanese people actually speak
after I learned some of the basics, I started noticing that the voice acting in anime is just really bad (usuallly extremely exaggerated) a lot of the time
Yeah anime voice acting is a form of short form Japanese that isn’t even spoken between close friends. Like you’ve got polite Japanese and intimate Japanese e.g. calling someone second-name-chan vs just kaito e.g. but from what I understand that closeness and intimacy is reserved for literally best friends and anime just uses a weird hybrid of both to create a more western patter in the dialogue.
Yeah there’s no tone or enunciation you need to master relatively except learing how to pronounce L and R at the same time for ra/la ri/li ru/lu re/le ro/lo.
I’ve heard from a uni mate that Chinese grammar is more straight forward and similar to English compared to Japanese.
My “sensei” at uni loved me for having really good pronunciation and it was from watching fucking hours of Japanese as a teen and learning how Japanese people actually speak vs anime nonsense.
Chinese writing is probably a bit easier as well (aside from the apparent lack of punctuation) since it was simplified. Kanji is basically the only reason why I gave up on learning Japanese a few years back
after I learned some of the basics, I started noticing that the voice acting in anime is just really bad (usuallly extremely exaggerated) a lot of the time
Yeah anime voice acting is a form of short form Japanese that isn’t even spoken between close friends. Like you’ve got polite Japanese and intimate Japanese e.g. calling someone second-name-chan vs just kaito e.g. but from what I understand that closeness and intimacy is reserved for literally best friends and anime just uses a weird hybrid of both to create a more western patter in the dialogue.
Walking up to the Emperor of Japan and calling him Naru-chan
Hahahahaha imagine 🤣
This gave me a temporary day nightmare. A daymare if you will.
I will
😱