Japanese Teacher Grades Your Japanese #2 (The Japanese 'R' Sounds) | Dogen

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[itowelhaveadream]

OH MY GOD HE IS WEARING A DIFFERENT SHIRT

[madelinejjc]

This was so helpful Dōgenさん thank you! I was sounding like an idiot trying to properly say ‘ら れ り ろ る’ while watching the rest of the video hahaha I’m going to record more videos of myself speaking Japanese from now on to keep analyzing and improving 😊💪🏻

[eri_kyunkyunjapanese]

I like the way he points out being very gentle, indirect and humble.
He doesn't seem judgemental at all.

[LeonSKennedy]

This is top quality stuff, folks. Finding material like this is more rare than you might assume!

[feelingpeachi]

This room is a whole vibe and I’m down for it

[angelest]

Like you've mentioned, the Japanese "R" has similarities to certain intervocalic "dd" sounds in certain Englishes (including North American English), like "ladder", or (if you say it with a flap) the "tt" sound in "better". I find that it's useful to explain it as a "d" rather than an "r/l" sound because it's essentially an alveolar tap, not a retroflex sound.

[flaviospadavecchia]

As an Italian speaker, the Japanese R is almost identical when in between vowels to the Italian single R, but not in R-beginning words, because we'd have the trill.

[TW-umhs]

It’s weird hearing Dogen speak English for a extended period of time 😅

[papafhill]

Yea, the way my Japanese friend taught me was the sound is made with the "da" sound, while also making a "ra" and "la" sound. It's like your tongue wants to commit to a "da" sound, but just gets lazy and doesn't fully make that "d" consonant sound.

[LetsaskShogo]

She already has great Japanese! I hope she keeps up the good work! 加油💪

[RaphTheKing]

I relate so much to Madeline - from listening to recordings of myself, my accent sounds similar to hers and I keep making the same mistakes so this video was useful for me too.. Thank you Dōgen先生!

[foxtrot]

Thought I had been pronouncing the “r” sound slightly incorrectly at first, but after you explained the tongue positioning I realized that I was fine 😅 that was one of the main reasons I’ve been afraid of speaking (I didn’t want to get hooked on pronouncing it wrong)

[gravyhippo]

Your new set up is so much more intimate!

[hoi]

Just passed 日本語教育能力検定試験 last year, and now looking for a job as a Japanese teacher, and these videos of you
grading Japanese of Japanese learners help me (native Japanese speaker) a lot too! Thanks! Also, love the contents of your other videos!

[HerrTipple]

I am not studying Japanese and probably never will, I found Dogen because of his very funny sketches. But I still enjoy watching this video because it is fun to simply watch a clever man talk about an interesting subject he is very knowledgeable of.

[dumalun]

Not fair, I will be fluent in about three thousand years I guess.

[Icsant]

Man, Madeline was crazy good! I've also been learning for about a year and I definitely don't feel skilled enough to speak that much!

[diegoci]

Learning the japanese r has been really interesting to me as a native spanish speaker, cause to the untrained ear the japanese r and the spanish soft (non trilled) r sound nearly identical. In a lot of cases, I can essentially get away with only slightly tweaking my rs to match the inflection of speaking in japanese, but the thing is words in spanish can't start with a soft r, so i actually have no idea how to make that sound in starting position and for a long time i didn't even notice i couldn't do it and made sort of an awkward middle ground between a spanish, japanese and english r. So basically, because of spanish grammar rules, I've had to do a bunch of research on how to relearn a japanese sound i already know how to make.

[AConnorDN]

I definitely struggle with the 'r' sound as well, particularly りょ　（I have a hard time distinguishing between よ　and りょ for one thing). I also find words where an 'r' sound follows an 'ん’ like in the word 君臨　and 遠慮. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the 'r' sound in Japanese is so much more subtle than it is in English, so when saying something like 君臨 my mouth wants to pronounce it like 'koon reen'

[adriandharma]

Dogen's not wearing his blue sweater! I think I spotted it behind you though on the chair.

Great lesson! I had trouble learning this at first but luckily the friend that taught me Japanese in the beginning was adamant to get the R sound right. I found it really annoying at first that I keep getting corrected but now I'm grateful.