Which is the easiest international language?

Guest   Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:52 am GMT
Spanish women are easy.
K. T.   Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:24 am GMT
Kef writes:

Japanese distinguishes between long/short vowels and consonants, though. Although, with a little practice, it may be easy enough to hear the distinctions, and to reliably produce them yourself, it's quite possible to say something embarrassing by accidentally saying a word with a short vowel instead of a long one, for example. Imagine confusing "kuusou", which means "daydream", and "kuso", which means "excrement". The only difference is the long vowels. This problem is compounded by many other similar sounding words as well. I once heard of somebody saying "kuso" when they meant to say "kusa", which means "grass". So Japanese's simple phonology can work against it as easily as it can for it."


K. T. : I don't wish to be indelicate, but You have to be careful with the word for (Mercedes-)Benz as well. ベンツ (Benz, the common way to say this type of car) and 便通 are very close. This is another long vowel-short vowel situation. 便通 has the long vowel at the end.

Since you are already thinking about long and short vowels, perhaps you won't make many mistakes. I haven't made the ones made above, but I have made a couple of other mistakes in Japanese. Once I made a Japanese baker fall on the floor laughing, if I remember correctly. My mistake really broke the ice, though. I'm not telling my error here...
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