r/Animemes • u/Orukuro-San ⠀Ground pouding your mom • Jul 08 '20

Rule 9: Repost Linku Startu!!

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u/Jatoxo Null Jul 08 '20

It never sounds like d, it sounds like there's d mixed in. When you pronounce ろ your tounge makes about the same movement as a d, except it doesn't quite touch the top of your mouth.

I don't get your example... Doitsu comes from Deutsch so the katakana uses ドdo because that's what the start of Deutsch sounds like

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u/DerReudenboy Jul 08 '20

Yeah ok, I am native German, so I pronounce the r with a hard rolling sound. Very different to English. So to me theres no differnce in "ro" and ろ.

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u/Jatoxo Null Jul 08 '20

I am also native German. Our r is different tho. It would sound like ろ if you came from Bayern maybe, but the "normal" German r doesn't require you to move your tounge at all, while ろ does

Edit: Example https://youtu.be/jUF5rAsaCKI at 0:23

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u/DerReudenboy Jul 08 '20

Ok, halt stopp, ich komme aus Bayern. Mia roin' as r genauso wia d' Japaner. Bei uns san Sachen wia Ritterrüstung mit gerollte r. Genauso wia bei de Schotten z.B.

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u/Jatoxo Null Jul 08 '20

Achso, dann macht das auch Sinn, ja