Japanese Long Vowels - Japanese Pronunciation

In this Japanese pronunciation video, you will learn Japanese long vowel sounds. It is not difficult to pronounce Japanese long vowels. They are just elongated vowel sounds like [aː], [iː], [ɯː], [eː], or [oː]. But this topic, Japanese long vowels, gets complicated when the rhythm of the Japanese language and the spelling rules are involved. First, this video explains how important understanding the rhythm of the Japanese language is for correctly pronouncing the Japanese long vowels. Then, it goes over the spelling rules for the Japanese long vowels in Hiragana, Katakana, and Romaji.


0:00 Intro
0:24 What to learn about Japanese long vowels
0:53 Japanese long vowels and the rhythm of the Japanese language
2:32 Example words with Japanese long vowels
3:53 Spelling rule for Japanese long vowels in Katakana
4:43 Example words with Japanese long vowels in Katakana
5:37 Spelling rule for Japanese long vowels in Romaji
6:00 Spelling rule for Japanese long vowels in Hiragana
10:12 Outro



Japanese Vowels:    • Japanese Vowels  


Japanese Pronunciation:    • Japanese Pronunciation  


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