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I would say that's like one of the demerits oflearning English with a katakana, hiragana,
you know, that there's no distinct, dis,distinguish, shit. There's no, um, dis,
dis, distinguish, you can't distinguish L and R.There's no distinguishment between L and R
if you write it in katakana, Kanagawa.
Yeah, yeah, Kanagawa.
Shit, shit.
Write it in Kanagawa.
What the hell was that? What the hell was that?
Hiragana, Kanagawa.
Yeah, I get it. I get it.
You get it?
You get it.
You get it? Katakana, Kanagawa.
Hiragana.
You know, hiragana?
Hiragana, katakana.
You know? Hiragana, katakana, Kanagawa.
Oh my god, I get it.
Very similar, right?
I get it. You can mix it in, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it makes sense, right? Okay.
Yeah, yeah. So like, let's say for example, uh, Idon't know, anything like Rubik's Cube.
Yeah.
If I didn't know the English term and I just heardRubik's Cube, I would not know L or R.
Because I know that like the English pronunciationis Rubik's Cube, not Lubik's Cube.
That's how I know that it's an R.
Like, because I know like the actual, like theAmerican pronunciation.
So like, yeah, I understand how it might bedifficult for the Japanese to, you know,
get the spelling from the katakana.
Right.
It's almost impossible to...
But how should we do then? Like, we should...
Yeah.
We should always see the spell or we need tolisten to the sound, maybe?
Like if you, okay, yeah, maybe you've, maybethere's,
maybe you've heard of the actual American phrasebefore.
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Yes. And maybe, you know, you just remember it.
Or sometimes what I hear is, um, I don't know howmuch word this would fit into, but like,
think about like the root word.
Okay.
Ah.
You know, sort of like dissect the word, maybesort of, you know,
if you know the dissected version, then you'll getthe spelling from that.
Yeah.
That I hear sometimes.
But, you know, ultimately, yeah, it's, it's gonnabe, uh, it's gonna be a little bit difficult.
Like, yeah.
It's like, if you say in Katakana, relocated.
It's, you can't, it's all ラ行.
Yeah. Right.
Right.
You just have to know that location starts with anL.
Yeah.
Is that like, first, first of all, like, is it,
is this understandable to American people thatthat's like アールとエル?
It's, it's similar.
Do you feel so?
Um, usually.
You can, you can distinguish L and R if you hearthe pronunciation.
Do you, do you understand like Japanese peoplemiss エル and L and R?
Is it like, to us, it's very similar sound.
But is it, do you, do you feel so?
Is that, is that the same sound, like similarsound to you?
I, I don't, I wouldn't think that the American,the average American would understand
that the Japanese is having trouble with L and R.
Yeah.
I don't think they know that.
It's two different sound completely.
Yeah. For the Americans.
Yes. I think it's just as distinguishable as theother.
Yeah.
Alphabets.
Just like B and C.
That's right.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yeah. So, right.
If you're learning English word by Katakana orHiragana, you'll never be able to like,
because you're putting in two different sound intoone, one box kind of.
On second thought, I just remembered thatsometimes kids, when they don't know how to
spell things, they sometimes make the mistakebetween L and R.
Oh, there's a bit.
So it's similar.
Close.
Yeah. It's similar.
Yeah.
I see. Because for Japanese, let's say Ka and Ga.
Yeah.
It's pretty similar because you just put Ka and Gais this dakuten version.
Yeah.
But Ka versus like Ga is like completely twodifferent sounds to non-Japanese people.
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So every language has like its own, like similar.
Right.
So if you're in Japanese mapping.
Yeah.
It's, it's difficult to, um, you know,
Yeah.
Right.
Right, right, right, right, right, right.
So there's no Urabasa.
You know, I just, yeah.
Spelling is, I mean, Americans have trouble withspelling all the time.
Not specifically L and R, but like on differentaspects.
Like for example, I can't, I can never get theword tomorrow.
Oh, really?
I can't, I can never get the spelling right.
There's always a red dot bar underneath.
Tomorrow.
Yeah.
Like, is it double M, double R, W, W?
Right.
Yeah.
It's the double M and the double R.
Like, is it double double or just single double ordouble single, single single?
I could never get it right.
Yes.
Okay.
So spelling is difficult.
Yeah. Spelling is difficult.
So like, it's a, it's a common mistake.
Even native speakers do the mistakes.
Yeah.
So that's right.
There's no Urabasa.
Yeah.
You just gotta, you just gotta know it.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
All right.
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