need some info on ''aozora''

[Carlosx2]

who can tell me how to pronounce this,

i have a clue but i want to be sure.

As far as i can translate it, it has to be blue sky. 9 my japanese if not that good. good enough to come this far but never hear some one pronounce this, so i am not sure.

thanks for who can help me out

:cool:

[nice gaijin]

blue sky is right, it is pronounced　青空／あおぞら／aozora. (just how it is spelled, as long as you know the Japanese phonemes.

[Tomii515]

like oww-zoo-r/daa, ah-O-zO-r/da

[nice gaijin]

I would say "ah-oh-zoh-rah," if I had to try to spell out the phonemes without using IPA. The "r" in Japanese is different from English; it sounds almost like a "d," but the two are definitely distinct phonemes.

[RockLee]

d?? I think you mean "la" Ah-Oh-ZOh-LAh. It doesn't sound anything like a "d" to me :souka:


Here's a song from Takahashi Hitomi called "aozora no namida", you can hear how she pronounces aozora :)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3oj855Amzj0

[nice gaijin]

that sounds like an "l" to you? hmm, I know that Japanese people have trouble distinguishing betweening l and r, but the two are very distinct to me. When I explain the way I make an r in Japanese, it's like bouncing my tongue off the roof of my mouth; like rolling an rr in Spanish, but without repeating the sound. To most of the American students I study with, it seems much closer to a d than an l.

[RockLee]

Must be a difference in mother tongue? :)