>characters speak any kind of foreign language Why is the

jap va's don't really know the foreign language they're speaking so they pronounce it as if was japanese
I remember Senjougahara speaking english with a decent pronounciation in bake, episode 3 or 4, it's just a matter of understanding how the language is pronounced

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>>154088173
>acts like Japanese is any more disgusting than chinese or arabic
>posts memevangelion
>doesn't know the difference between katakana and hiragana

>>154089537
The funniest part is that whoever made this actually thought it's notably hard.

>>154088173
Meiji restoration was a mistake

>>154088173

Am I the only one that cringes hard whenever there's a germanophile character in a series. Especially when said character is always half german, on the mother's side.

>girl raised in Germany
>is supposed to speak perfect German
>speaks perfect Japanese yet German is absolutely horrifying
Miyamura was a mistake

>>154089861

Xie/xer meant well.

>>154088173
"Japanized" foreign words is an old tradition that comes from the period when Chinese intellectuals arrived to Japan for civilized it. That's why they don't say Sun Wukong but Son Goku

>>154089861
If only they made at least a bit of sense
>girl is not feminine but neuter

>>154090469
She gets away with it because nobody around her can tell

They sound kinda cute when they speak Spanish.

https://youtu.be/_8ajYmRR7pg

>>154091441

kek 10/10

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>>154091441
i thoroughly enjoyed this

>>154088173
>LCL FUYUNG
>ANFANG DE BERINGUNG

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>>154091441
K-KAWAII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0mnneG3YkA

>>154091441
Why would Japs learn Spanish?

>>154089537
It's not that hard my man

>>154091441
Speak Spanish better than English honestly

>>154093741
More people in the world speak Spanish natively than English and in about 20 or so years, Spanish will be the dominant language in the U.S. Also it's probably the easiest latin based language for them to pronounce.

>>154093822
>in about 20 or so years, Spanish will be the dominant language in the U.S

We'll see.

>>154091441
Tbf the phonetics are kinda similar, it's just some meme pronuntiations that get hard, like the strong r or the ñ

>>154093754
I only did 3 years of this shit language in high school, but memorising the gender of every word was the worst part.

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>>154093943
ñ should be easy for them, it's basically the cat sound for them

ñaaaa

>Japanese doesn't really put consonants next to each other (apart from n)
>other languages do, so they have troubles with pronunciation
Really makes you think.

>>154093642
That German guy needs to calm down and stop over-pronouncing everything like that, nobody talks like this.

>>154088173
The Japanese language in general sounds like nails on chalkboard

Spanish shouldn't be as hard for the nips to pronounce as English is, not only due to the similarity in both phonetics but also because Spanish generally always does sound like its written, like Japanese.

Spanish isn't really a language with pitch accent but it does have á and the like which wouldn't be too hard for the nips to understand since they do use pitch accent.

holy fuck the OP for black lagoon
when they try to say "shoulder"
the whole OP is hilarious

>>154093943
Yeah, the strong R is a pleb filter for every non-spanish speaker.

>>154095567
What about cubans

They struggle getting that strong R through

>>154095567
>tfw not even fluent in Spanish but can roll my r's just fine while my Ecuadorian friend who is fluent can't

I don't get it.

>>154088173
They learn English with katakana pronunciation based on their loan words. The only ones who ever learn to hold a conversation and speak a foreign language normally are the ones who live overseas. I live in Tokyo, and I've met exactly one Japanese person that speaks fluent English, and he lives in America.

>>154095567
>tfw I can't roll my r's

>>154093741
For trips to mexico to make half-breeds

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>>154093642

Holy kek these guys are a reaction image goldmine.

>>154096117

I think you are thinking of Puerto Ricans....

>>154097419
almost as if they were humans that react to stuff

>>154088173
It's the result of their language. An I does not sound like an I and the U is usually silent, so they make foreigner characters say the U at the end as a joke.

>>154098384
Is the u always silent though? It seems like it depends on the dialect.

>>154091441
Japanese and Spanish are both extremely literal languages when it comes to orthography and pronunciation.

In other words, they are basically pronounced the same way they are spelled.

>>154099100
Which dialect then when it is not silent?
Aside from anime, I don't heard anyone using the U in their conversation with me when I am there.
Then again, I am not touring the entire country.

>>154099374
You need to get better at moon. It's only "silent" in desu or in teineigo with masu conjugated verbs.

>>154099100
I think they just pronounce it for emphasis

SO EVERYTHING THAT MAKES ME WHORE
YOURE OOOOOOOOLD

>>154093741
Japan love Peru, for some reason.

>>154102065
Alpacas?

>>154091441
>tfw I love Spain and Japan and Spanish is the foreign language I have had the most success with followed by Japanese
>Spain and Japan are the two places I want to spend time in most
Everything makes sense now.

>>154093822
Fuck off

Thank God Anno had enough brains to hire fluent speaker for tumbling down
I imagine what could've been
>Tumburingu downu
>I've beenu a foor to myseeeerfu
>Fry me to the moon

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>>154088173
>>154088173

>>154104266
Grant-sama looked nice in it

>>154104266
>you will never be you're own waifu

>>154097759
Puerto Ricans can roll their R's just fine.

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>>154089537
>his language has articles.

>>154089471
>when you have to read the subtitles because you don't understand a word although they speak in your language

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>>154089537
>having articles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X97K-euUDfs&

Highly relevant.

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>>154108588
>his language has words

>>154108746
Random native English speakers are the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JShDNHTicws

guy's name is literally Max Powers

>>154095440
Black Lagoon is the absolute worst offender I've ever seen. Japanese voice actors are the elite? Yeah right.

>>154104266
If memory serves, she was really in to Asuka, she has tonnes of Asuka memorabilia..

>>154089537
I had absolutely no idea German had cases.

>>154089471
I guess that explains why Asami Kazari from Active Raid sounded like she lost some of the feeling in her jaw each time she spouted English lines at random.

Japanese end all consonants with a vowel (except N as an ending to a word). So when they say for example Ice Cream, they're really saying Ai-Su Ku-Ri-Mu

>>154110011
Well, this is just because that's how it's written in katakana.

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>>154108905
Articles are unnecessary words

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>>154105966
It's not fair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO7MWuJ7zLA

Obligatory Bavarian speaking Nip.

>>154108541
I cri everytim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EB1gTA7x3A

>>154109269
Even English has cases, but most native speakers don't know about them. The common who/whom confusion happens because people don't really understand how cases work.

>>154110749
Shut up, Pyotr.

>>154088173
xd

>>154091209
The -chen suffix turns nouns neutral. It used to be the same in Old Englidh with -en.

Mädchen = maiden

>>154091209
It's the same story with every gendered language. I feel sorry for the poor bastards who try to learn these langauges in adulthood.
>girl is neuter
>fork is female
>bucket is male

>>154093741
TPP

>>154111550
This is why I hated learning French.

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>>154111587
The Slavic languages are even better, because pretty much everything constantly changes depending on the case, gender, tense, whether the object is animate or inanimate or what consonant/vowel a word ends with.

>>154109269
We still have cases in pronouns like I (nominative), me (accusative?)

>>154099100
It's not silent for almost anything besides desu. And even then, you leave out the u in desu when you're speaking extremely strictly or formally. Mostly though, the u sound is still there, it's just not so strongly emphasized and the Japanese u sound is more like something between a short i and short u in English.

>>154112423
see
>>154099458
食べます is pronounced tabemass, not tabemasu.

>>154095567
the same sound is also used in other languages tho, italian among others

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Japsv0eD44A
somebody type this down please I don't understand what he's saying

>it was within the realm of possibility
>[...] you might [...] isn't capable of holding the angels in check
>they'll now [...] extraction of the third angel was so extensive
>all those who left were some bones, and that was the conclusion
>that said, good luck

>>154093822
CHI

>>154107792

Nah, they sound fucking retarded. They replace the 'R' with 'L' all the time.

>>154090469
This happens in burger movies and shows all the fucking time too, anon.

>>154113625
Really? So they call themselves Puerto Licans or Borlikens? I live surrounded by them, they enjoy dropping the 's' but the rolling 'r' sticks.

>>154093642
White manlets suurrree love Japan

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>>154094273
Spanish from spain sounds horrible like a sick cat trying to talk in latin america everyone makes fun of their dubbed works
Spanish from chile peru makes you want to vomit
Spanish from venezuela and colombia sounds really good if not the best if they just could talk in a more quiet manner
Spanish from argentina and uruguay has really easy accents and if you learn from somebody who isnt from buenos aires you are not gonna sound like a douche
Mexico was a mistake
But none of this matters since italian is the superior latin language , you can make anything sound fucking gorgeous in italian

>>154114483
Problem with Italian is that it's pretty much worthless outside of Italy.

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>>154089471
She's excellent.

>>154114600
How did this scene work in the LN?

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>>154109102
She puts every Askuafag to absolute shame. I can't think of any voice actor or seiyu so in love with a roll who they've played. Not even Mark Hamill.

>>154093879
Kek

>>154112649
>it was within the realm of possibility
>On it's own, Humanity isn't capable of holding the angels in check
>The analysis following a permafrost excavation of the third angel was so extensive, all that was left were some bones
>and that was the conclusion
>that said, good luck

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>>154112649
wew it's so fucking bad..
Why they are incapable of pronouncing simple sentences? I don't think I saw this problem in any other country's film/animation.

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>>154111502
Truth hurts, eh?

>>154114634

I tried reading the LN's and they are just absolute trash. All of it is told from Rararagi's point of view, he lies to himself, he lies to the reader, the other characters do the same and you're supposed to figure it out from the syntax of he said, she said so conflicts here, lead to revelations there.

The anime is 10x better than the books, don't be fooled.

If english books contain emotion and actions to let you know how characters feel and think, then imagine a book where objects and abstract thoughts were replaced the emotions and actions to show how the characters feel and think. Bakemonogatari LNs are flawed simply cause they are written for japanese by japanese in that subtle changes in how symbols are spelled convey a positive or negative feeling to the words and or objects.

Basically, the LN are shit and you shouldn't bother, but if you're a weeb and want to pretend they're good, have at it.

>>154115878
>I tried reading the LN's and they are just absolute trash
You've tried reading a shitty English translations of the LNs. Big difference.

>>154115833
You get it in American shit all the time. There's an X-Files episode where the characters talk "Norwegian" so hilariously poorly it became a meme over there.

>>154112868
CA

>>154115925

First of all, no editor on this planet could change the play scripts the japanese call "light novels" into a digestible format and coherent format. Doing so significantly alters the source material.

Second of all, play scripts suck ass to read since they are created to be performed. Which is why they they get adapted to anime so quickly, easily and with a moderate amount of success.

Get your head out of your ass anon. If creating "books" that read like plays, looked like plays and flowed like plays was significant, all modern books would be created that way.

>>154116220
>Can't read Japanese
>Can't translate Japanese into English
>Pretends that the gatari series are play scripts
Get your head out of your ass, you're not an accomplished author nor are you in any way qualified to critique Japanese literature.

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Best pronunciation of the English language even though I don't fucking what's said after the name.

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>>154116280
>you're not an accomplished author nor are you in any way qualified to critique Japanese literature.

I make my living with letters and words, but fuck you're right. I'll just stop posting and an hero. My life just lost all meaning

>>154116375
>I make my living with letters and words
And yet you still write the with prose of a pretentious undergrad posting on reddit, desperately trying to convince others that their armchair critique of literature in a language wildly different from their mother tongue that they can't even speak is somehow valid.

Before you ask, yes I know Japanese.

>>154116180
-NQOURED

>>154113728
Generally western movies pull off western foreign languages better.
German is much closer to english than it is japanese

>>154116453
>Before you ask, yes I know Japanese.

I don't need to know japanese to understand when something is sub par in english. Light Novel. Light, as in easy to read, short on pages, teen wank. We have that here too. Yet we acknowledge it for what it is, while you seem to defend it.

And your post just further proves my point that japanese light novels are just too different from the average flow and structure of books to be enjoyable.

>>154116951
>>I don't need to know japanese to understand when something is sub par in english.
Yes, English translations of LN are almost invariably shit. The issue I took with your post was that you tried to paint the source material itself as being poorly written, when in reality anyone who can actually read the damn books would have a completely different experience than you did. The fact that you someone missed this in my posts speaks volumes to your (lack of) reading comprehension.

>And your post just further proves my point that japanese light novels are just too different from the average flow and structure of books to be enjoyable.
First off, you don't know what "Light Novel" means. Second off, you have no idea what their flow or structure entails. Stop embarrassing yourself. Next time say something less ignorant like "I can't actually read a word of moon, but these English translations suck."

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>>154113977

I had the displeasure of being stationed there for a couple of years. They are more like wild aggressive chimpanzees in human skin than actual 'people.' They also have one of the most bastardized version of the Spanish dialect ever. They drop the r, s all the time.

>>154089861
It is tho

German is an obsolete, needlessly complicated like, not unlike all of their engineering