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Having learned Japanese as a native French speaker, I can guarantee you that it's true. When French people learn English, they often fall into the trap of pron

Having learned Japanese as a native French speaker, I can guarantee you that it's true. When French people learn English, they often fall into the trap of pronouncing it in a French way: the way they read it instead of how they hear it. There are many elements in the accent of French speakers in English that come from this. If you use romanisation of a language like Japanese, you expose yourself to the same problem instead of learning directly with the original script. In addition, the most common romanisation of Japanese is designed to be readable by European language speakers (Hepburn) rather than just using the roman alphabet in a logical, direct application of the native script (Kunrei).

emodendroket 10y ago
Having learned Japanese as a native English speaker, I disagree. > When French people learn English, they often fall into the trap of pronouncing it in a French way: the way they read it instead of how they hear it. People learning any foreign language often "fall into the trap" of pronouncing it using phonemes and intonation that are more appropriate for their native languages and I sat through enough reading aloud sessions in college to assure you that somebody reading in the native script can still speak in an awful accent.