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>any Japanese person who can understand Engarish will also understand English. My impression is that it's actually quite common for Japanese people to understa
by aninhumer 10y ago
>any Japanese person who can understand Engarish will also understand English.
My impression is that it's actually quite common for Japanese people to understand Japanese accented English more easily than a native English speaker.
>she correctly says "cheezu" for "cheese", but says "steku" instead of "steki" for "steak".
"Suteeku" sounds like what a Japanese person who knows English well but has a strong accent might say. "Suteeki" is more of a corrupted loanword.
- giovannibajo1 10y agoI would say it's true in general for us non native speakers to understand other non native speakers better than native speakers (unless their English is so garbled that becomes too hard...). But it's even more especially true for English pronounced by people born in our own country; that's the easiest by a far amount
- primitivesuave 10y ago> My impression is that it's actually quite common for Japanese people to understand Japanese accented English more easily than a native English speaker. This is actually very true, made me think back to many situations in Japan where adding a strong Japanese accent to my English words made it comprehensible to the listener (just as adding a Japanese accent to the generated speech makes it nearly incomprehensible to a non-Japanese speaker).