How do pronounce yaoi

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If you say it slowly, it'd be said like "yah-oh-ee", and quickly it'd be "yow-ee". Tsundere is pronounced "soon-deh-reh". Pullman I've never heard a Japanese person say yaoi either, only BL or boy's love.

It is pronounced exactly as it is written. Luckily, Japanese is not as stupid as English or French where words are not pronounced the way they are written.

CrustyRolls said: I assume it depends on how quickly you say the word, so like, when Japanese people pronounce the name Kaori, if they say it quickly it's "cow-ree" but if it's slower then it sounds more like "kah-oree".

That is all. Cross Ange. Pretty sure it's Yah-Oh-ee. Which is pretty much how most phrases are pronounced excluding common exceptions like Desu in which the ending U is often omitted.

Never combine multiple letters into a single sound like pronouncing dere as dear. That's just pure cringe. Uh, where does the strange assuption come from it's pronounce 'sun deh reh'? TSU is basically pronounced as C GangsterCat said: ahoyanen said: It is pronounced exactly as it is written. Pullman said: GangsterCat said: ahoyanen said: It is pronounced exactly as it is written.

Lavendarjosh said: Uh, where does the strange assuption come from it's pronounce 'sun deh reh'? GangsterCat said: Pullman said: GangsterCat said: ahoyanen said: It is pronounced exactly as it is written. Johnnyd3rp said: GangsterCat said: Pullman said: GangsterCat said: ahoyanen said: It is pronounced exactly as it is written.

Pullman said: It is extremely ignorant to expect every letter to stand for only one pronounciation no matter the context, especially if you only include 5 letters for vowels. GangsterCat said: it's really infelxible, just making me cringe how english speakers comment on any foreign words and say "hey how to pronounce this" and a lot of people response with just bunch of letters combination like what you can see in this thread even for simple YA O I word.

GangsterCat said: best language is easy, simple, flexible and efficient to use and to learn. Pullman said: GangsterCat said: Pullman said: GangsterCat said: ahoyanen said: It is pronounced exactly as it is written.

Lavendarjosh said: ahoyanen said: TSU is basically pronounced as C Milennin said: GangsterCat said: it's really infelxible, just making me cringe how english speakers comment on any foreign words and say "hey how to pronounce this" and a lot of people response with just bunch of letters combination like what you can see in this thread even for simple YA O I word.

As someone from Germany, Yaoi is pronounced as written. As for tsundere:. You're a louse, Roger Smith. Dorothy Wayneright This is my fight! No Senpai, this is our fight! GangsterCat said: russian alphabet cyrillic is very easy, i learned how to pronounce everything easily in a short amount of time. Milennin said: GangsterCat said: russian alphabet cyrillic is very easy, i learned how to pronounce everything easily in a short amount of time.

I always go with ya-o-i. Because that's how Japanese works. It's not English guys. Idk why people trying to say like that. This video defines it well. Pullman said:. Bored-otaku said: Yes it is pronounced yawee and tsundere is pronounced sun dere.

YaoiMaster said: OP, I used to pronounce it the same way, actually. Pullman said: ahoyanen said: Pullman said: It is extremely ignorant to expect every letter to stand for only one pronounciation no matter the context, especially if you only include 5 letters for vowels. GangsterCat said: this post alone shows how impractical english is. Momono said: GangsterCat said: this post alone shows how impractical english is. YaoiMaster said: sasalx said: I always go with ya-o-i. Sherlupin Offline Joined: Aug Posts: Bored-otaku Offline Joined: Feb Posts: Yes it is pronounced yawee and tsundere is pronounced sun dere BBCode I've seen you at your worst and I still think you're the best.

Alcoholicide Offline Joined: Feb Posts: Swagernator Offline Joined: Apr Posts: BBCode I'm the best. That's because its called BL in Japan. YAOI is an acronym used mainly in the west. I guess you can make that argument with the talking speed but it still sounds weird to me.

I guess the O-I sound can manifest itself as a 'w' sound so I'll accept that but even then it's more like Ya-Oh-Wee in my ears. Just completely erasing one of the syllables the A or the O isn't just talking faster, it's changing the pronounciation. Noone in my country would ever swallow a syllable like that when saying Yaoi which is why I'm thinking it's something american because it obviously depends on where you come from which pronounciation makes sense to me.

From a german perspective Yawee sounds very far removed from Yaoi. Bygyas Offline Joined: Jul Posts: BBCode Cross Ange Hey guys check my profile for current airing season anime recommendation guaranteed best taste. Lavendarjosh Offline Joined: Oct Posts: Not being always the same but adapting to the context is the definition of flexible and that's what you just criticized about english. At least try to make some sense with your language idealogies. Just fyi there are 5 vowel letters you listed but there are at least 25 different vowel sounds that we can articulate top left corner It is extremely ignorant to expect every letter to stand for only one pronounciation no matter the context, especially if you only include 5 letters for vowels.

That would severely limit the scope in which we can communicate with each other. And of course the same goes for consonants too. There are just so much more sounds than letters. What you're basically saying is a language is the better the less options it has to express itself. Which is bullshit, no language is better than the other, they are just different, but all related.

C in what language? Also, as long as my ears don't betray me, I hear an awful lot of actual 'tsu's in anime, even considering the fact that they often speak softer than in western languages. So just having say "sun" isn't really wrong but I guess the more accurate way would be to put and extra s so ssun.

Johnnyd3rp Offline Joined: Jan Posts: The strength of the english language imho is that the grammar is simple, english grammar compared to french or italian verbs conjugation is a joke. Italian and french are probably easy compared to polish or hungarian. You can still have tons of variation of each vowel long, short, rising tone, falling tone, etc. When A is pronounced as E like in "train" English and when written combination of OI is pronounced as A like in "moi" French then things are getting stupid.

That would be ideal for robots but to me it's a nightmare scenario. The variety and ambiguity of language are its best attributes because life itself is full of variety and ambiguity. A language without ambiguity, would be extremely inaccurate and useless for expressing yourself. But it's probably useless to discuss this with someone who doesn't have a linguistic background. People still think of language as a tool we 'invented' to transmit information, but it's really so much more than that.

Any attempts of prescriptive linguistics, of people trying to tell other people what language is the best or how language should ideally be used or look like, don't sit well with me. It's like telling the wind where to blow.

It's common even in Italy, imho it's the fault of the education in the elementary school. It's common even in italy, imho it's the fault of the education in the elementary school. Milennin Offline Joined: Feb Posts: What's cringey about English speakers showing an interest in a language other than their own? At least they're trying to learn. You can't learn if you're too afraid to ask. No language is easy and simple.