Engrish

Engrish is unusual English usually used in Japan or eny other East asia nation.

All Japanese student are study to Engrish from Japanese native Engrish teacher.

Four example

Diminishet vowel

The Japanese can recognize only five Vowel: [a], [e], [i], [o] and [u]. Sound of [a] is pronounced with the mouth closed, so, e.g., the word "and" pronounced by native Japanese may be heard like "und" (in X-SAMPA, [Vnd], not "und [unt]" of German).

Liquid consonant

This is why English of Japanese speaker is called as Engrish.

In Japanese, Only liquid consonant is [4] (X-SAMPA). Thus, the Japanese can't recognize the difference bitween [l] and [r].

By the way, [4], the Japanese only liquid consonant, sounds like fast "T" of American English such as "better" or "city".

Luck of stress

Because of Japanese doesn't have stress.

Grammar error

Japanese word order is SOV, while English is SVO. Adding, Japanese is agglutinative language, but English is almost isorating language in a broad sense.

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See also

• Nihongo-De-Okkay (英語でおk)
• All your base are belong to us
• 日本語

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