Japanese Pronunciation, Video 3: The Japanese Vowels

This is the third of a 4-part series on Japanese pronunciation. The goal is to get familiar with the sounds of Japanese and the IPA symbols. You'll then be able to learn them faster, either through your own studies or through my pronunciation trainers. More links below:

[amnn]

I'm sitting in front of my laptop attempting to race through strangled vowel sounds while also visualizing the inside of my mouth; my tongue isn't used to this level of micromanagement. I'd love it if that Monty Python hand paused for a few seconds between vowels. Appreciative of the thorough attention to detail.

[BeavisOfArabia]

The 「っ」 in 「さっか」kind of reminds me of the Arabic's "Shaddah", a small little w looking character above a letter that works sort of in a similar manner!

[moisesflores]

Two questions, Are the Japanese and Spanish vowels (a, e, i, and o) exactly the same ? i know the u is different in both languages, but I've seen in some webpages other markers in the IPA such as [ä] for the Japanese vowel, but as Native Spanish speaker they sound the same.

And another question, is the nasalization of the Japanese vowels the same as the nasalized French vowels or what's the difference? specially in words like Denwa and Kon'ya

I ask this cuz I'm currently studying Japanese but I also speak French

Thank you in advance
P.s. this is the Best YouTube page for learning IPA pronunciation !

[madmaster]

actually English has roughly 20 vowels. (this ofc depends on the accent)

[Tinocox]

So basically Spanish vowels, and german ü (kinda)