Japanese sounds a *little* bit like Russian.

When reading phonological descriptions of Japanese and Russian, there a good amount of similarities between their sounds, as I share in this video!

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[TeaTimeee]

hearing an english speaker say ы perfectly is a surreal experience

[KirkKiyosadaTome]

Fun fact: Ikura (Japanese for salmon roe, a common sushi/spaghetti topping(!)) is derived from Russian икра (ikra), which means fish roe/caviar in general. This is hilarious, as ikura sounds like the most Japanese word on the planet, though its katakana spelling of イクラ probably should have clued me in to its foreign etymology.

[aminem]

But I'm a Japanese who studied Russian, and people say, "The Russian you speak seems to be German"😂

[ДенисЯсников-ыя]

Японцы и русские нередко говорят "это" えと, когда хотят что-то сказать, но не могут собраться с мыслями и придумать что :D

[egorsurikov]

Fun fact: "yama" in Russian means a pit in the ground and in Japanese, on the contrary, it means a mountain. Also it's quite interesting that there is a word "kazan" of Turkic origin in Russian which relates to a deep bowl/saucepan used for cooking food, usually on fire, and in Japanese it means a volcano, which also pertains to some boiling process and fire :)

[コシャル]

0:43 зенсина. Я понимаю, иностранцам трудно читать наши слова, но он так мило это сказал.

[shigeru_]

Additionally, this is most likely just a coincidence, but I find it interesting that ‘yu’ has a similar character in each language. Ю, ゆ. Nice video!

[peerkartosh]

I am a native Russian speaker and learning Japanese. Pronounciation came easy for me because of how similar the languages can sound. Even before I started learning Japanese, while watching anime or reading manga, pronouncing the character's names was easy for me, while I sometimes heard westerners making mistakes because their pronounciation differs. So long story short, I always noticed how Russian and Japanese are similar for me, and someone made a video explaining this in great detail. Never thought about a lot of this before. Great video!

[deadfishy]

Fun fact: Old Church Slavonic did not allow words to end in closed syllables. They had to be open. The two letters Ъ & Ь used to be vowels.

[dotoroto]

Как же мило он произнёс "женщина"как "зенсина"🥺

[niki]

learning japanese in hs as a russian, my pronunciation was the best in my class and my teacher said she had another russian student before who also was the best in the class for pronunciation xD

[slvera]

Russians: Женщина
Foreigners: зе.. зен. зенси... John Cena

[muxecoid]

There is a Russian joke about this: "The name of the engineer who designed the roads in Russia is Toyama Tokanawa".

[nooneontheearth]

I'm a Japanese learning Russian. Sometimes i really struggle with Russian grammar and pronunciation, but this video encourages me a lot! Thank you〜

[evelina_kitsune_chan]

0:43 AAAAHH, I CAN'T HE PRONOUND "ЖЕНЩИНА" SO CUTELY😭❤

[GregoryWillow]

Никогда не забуду знаменитое японское слово "вот оно что" или же "suuka"

[thethu]

Звук "Ъ" из русского языка самый лучщий во всём мире

[LL-yjne]

Тоже всегда так думал. Я русский и мне нравится, как звучит японский язык. И мне всегда казалось, что японский язык звучит будто слоги русских слов поменяли местами. А совпадений оказалось куда больше)) Спасибо

[mhpzrqd]

What really amazes me that Russian "ю" and Japanese "ゆ" make the same sound. It's an absolutely crazy coincidence

[kekroneplay]

Yet another great video! Both your Russian and Japanese pronunciation was pretty decent in my opinion, except женщина which sounded like зенсина, but that's no big deal. You've actually covered rather an interesting topic imo. Keep it up!