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Speaking "r" in Japanese
Why don't speak Japanese the letter r? In southern Europe it sounds like rrrrrrrrr. In Germany it sounds like rr. And in Japan
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We don't have the pronunciation "R" as "R" of English. I don't know why we write with R when we write らりるれろ, but we pronounce them just like "LA LI LU LE LO" of English.
Why should they? I could just as well ask you, why don't European languages have long vowels (whereas Japanese has them)? In Europe we have /l/ and /r/, in Japanese they have /ɽ/ instead, which can be placed somewhere between those two sounds.
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