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Did you know that the English way to pronounce "jujutsu" isn't how the Japanese pronounce it? The Japanese way to pronounce it could actually be a lot easier fo

Did you know that the English way to pronounce "jujutsu" isn't how the Japanese pronounce it? The Japanese way to pronounce it could actually be a lot easier for many non-English speakers (I'd anyway argue it's a common enough word that people are familiar enough with it to pronounce it in a way that's comfortable to them).

nordsieck 3y ago
> Did you know that the English way to pronounce "jujutsu" isn't how the Japanese pronounce it? Really? The wiki audio sample[1] seems fairly close to how people in the US pronounce the word, just with a more emphasized first syllable. --- 1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Ja-Jujutsu.oga https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Ja-Jujut...
- dicytea 3y ago
  That's funny, I thought the name means 呪術, but the person in that audio clip is (probably) pronouncing 柔術. I prefer my interpretation though (git with magic). Ambiguous romanization is weird, I wish romanization rules would just follow IME rules (except in the case of consecutive n's, that'd look weird).
bsder 3y ago
> Did you know that the English way to pronounce "jujutsu" isn't how the Japanese pronounce it? That's kind of tautological ... However, yes, that is certainly true. Japanese has a pitch accent rather than a stress accent and all syllables are roughly the same length. English speakers don't tend to talk that way.
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