Is it because their katakana doesnt allow correct pronunciation to be represented or is it because they cannot make the sounds well physically?
Why are Japanese so bad at pronouncing english?
It's the same reason speakers of any language develop accents: the sounds are different. Japanese requires a vowel to come after every consonant besides N, and many of the consonants of English don't exist. It's a radical change for a native Japanese speaker whose mouth is not trained to make those changes to English. With practice, though, everyone can lose their accent in any language.
It is because of their language's limited phonology. Katakana being unable to accurately represent English speech is merely a reflection of that; it is a symptom, not the cause.
If you had to speak a language like Polish where many consonants are clustered together in ways that are alien to English and Spanish speakers, you'd probably have crappy pronunciation, too.
- Kef
If you had to speak a language like Polish where many consonants are clustered together in ways that are alien to English and Spanish speakers, you'd probably have crappy pronunciation, too.
- Kef
Gracias por las respuestas, es muy interesante.
<<If you had to speak a language like Polish where many consonants are clustered together in ways that are alien to English and Spanish speakers, you'd probably have crappy pronunciation, too>>
Creo que tendrÃa pronunciación excelente, porque todo lo que toco se convierta en oro. Lol!
<<If you had to speak a language like Polish where many consonants are clustered together in ways that are alien to English and Spanish speakers, you'd probably have crappy pronunciation, too>>
Creo que tendrÃa pronunciación excelente, porque todo lo que toco se convierta en oro. Lol!