> in English you just go ahead and say "karaoke", "tsunami", etc. Oh god no. I am Spanish guy living in Japan, our languages have very similar sounds, so much

> in English you just go ahead and say "karaoke", "tsunami", etc. Oh god no. I am Spanish guy living in Japan, our languages have very similar sounds, so much so that we can usually get the pronunciation right on the first try, much to the surprise of Japanese people. English speakers on the other hand tend to butcher the pronunciation so heavily that the words become really difficult to recognise. But to be fair, the same happens the other way around. All languages adapt foreign words to their own phonology.