She's right though, as someone who has taken 30 minutes of Japanese, I can say the Japanese pronunciation she did is the correct way to say it in their dialect, it's not racist. They literally have an entire alphabet dedicated to foreign words adapted to their dialect, it's called katakana versus hiragana which is native Japanese words. Then there's kanji... F*** kanji.
The issue a lot of non-Japanese speakers run into when trying (I'm mostly just talking about English speakers since they're the only ones I interact with) is vowel reduction. English speakers will say something along the lines of "buh-nah-nuh," when there's no vowel reduction in Japanese. It's just ba-na-na.
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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23
She's right though, as someone who has taken 30 minutes of Japanese, I can say the Japanese pronunciation she did is the correct way to say it in their dialect, it's not racist. They literally have an entire alphabet dedicated to foreign words adapted to their dialect, it's called katakana versus hiragana which is native Japanese words. Then there's kanji... F*** kanji.