1：名無しさん＠涙目です。(東日本)：2011/10/16(日) 16:42:41.38 ID:1nYjQlr40

The iPhone 4S’ new assistant application “Siri” doesn’t have Japanese support yet. Can a Japanese person use it on the English settings? Let’s find out.

Siri vs Japanese – YouTube

According to Apple, a Japanese version will be released in 2012.

13：名無しさん＠涙目です。(彦根城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:46:53.52 ID:+FcrTahy0

We can only say UOOOKU

190：名無しさん＠涙目です。(犬山城)：2011/10/16(日) 17:14:11.90 ID:ZLO6/afb0

WORKING!!

63：名無しさん＠涙目です。(コンデ砦)：2011/10/16(日) 16:55:00.09 ID:GRlq/suz0

AHAHAHA “FUCK”

28：名無しさん＠涙目です。(江戸城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:48:43.80 ID:cpUav9giP

Typical Japanese person’s Engrish

265：名無しさん＠涙目です。(忍)：2011/10/16(日) 17:25:01.15 ID:7XnwZJPP0

>>28
What do native English speakers think of this?

30：名無しさん＠涙目です。(聚楽第)：2011/10/16(日) 16:49:02.03 ID:vB+xeVIG0

My middle school English teacher (pure Japanese) insisted that “in New York, people pronounce ‘I can’ as ‘icon’ because the East Coast is dry”. When I heard an actual New York accent some years later, I laughed out loud.

185：名無しさん＠涙目です。(備中松山城)：2011/10/16(日) 17:13:27.51 ID:2wzc3zNi0

>>30
British English is spoken more slowly, with big vowels

i can
British “Icon”
American “I kyan”

supposed
British “Suppaused”
American “Suppohsed”

35：名無しさん＠涙目です。(宇和島城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:50:25.19 ID:KMMWcACj0

My middle school teacher always said that the N in No was the N in “konnnyaku.”
Even now, I have no idea what he meant.

53：名無しさん＠涙目です。(岐阜城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:53:36.44 ID:n4KlAKB80

>>35
Maybe Japanese N is too short?

94：名無しさん＠涙目です。(宇和島城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:58:29.24 ID:KMMWcACj0

>>53
Is it “NNNOOO”, then..
φ(｡｡;)memomemo

39：名無しさん＠涙目です。(関東地方)：2011/10/16(日) 16:51:12.99 ID:ruIjm8ezO

We learn to read and write English. Speaking is something else.

43：名無しさん＠涙目です。(コンデ砦)：2011/10/16(日) 16:52:08.77 ID:+qH5zSMn0

Learning to pronounce English is incredibly difficult.
There’s one simple reason Japanese people can’t speak English.
We don’t learn pronunciation properly.

67：名無しさん＠涙目です。(江戸城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:55:17.46 ID:WbTqL4lY0

>>43
Right? There are consonants that don’t exist in Japanese. If you speak Japanese you can’t learn them easily.

50：名無しさん＠涙目です。(青葉城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:53:29.17 ID:ML4dY7/Z0

This guy is just saying walk over and over.
STFU and say work already… look at the phonetic symbols…

55：名無しさん＠涙目です。(江戸城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:53:40.54 ID:8L8/f2flP

RocketNews

57：名無しさん＠涙目です。(江戸城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:53:49.07 ID:OPPiDXPR0

It really is useless for Japanese people

64：名無しさん＠涙目です。(大坂城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:55:01.89 ID:j31f+NR60

What are some benefits of studying abroad?

80：名無しさん＠涙目です。(江戸城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:56:46.25 ID:EY5Mv5AJP

>>64
The language gets under your skin much more than it would at home.
When you study by yourself, you don’t have to wager much on it.
By going to an environment where Japanese isn’t understood, you will be shocked by how English floats off your lips.
From there, you can make good progress.

98：名無しさん＠涙目です。(江戸城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:59:10.84 ID:WbTqL4lY0

>>80
When my friend came back to Japan, we saw the opposite effect here.
Living outside Japan has a huge influence

[The following two posts have been liberally transrated --Shii]

68：名無しさん＠涙目です。(シンデレラ城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:55:29.87 ID:ROxoi2o70

Indian Engrish sounds compleetory diffelent from American Engrish, but it’s still lecognized as Engrish.
The rest of the world should just recognize Japanezu Engrish as regitimate.

88：名無しさん＠涙目です。(dion軍)：2011/10/16(日) 16:57:32.04 ID:VozNc1dM0

>>68
Absorutely.
Let’s make it a grobal standard.

[I won't do it again, I swear.]

76：名無しさん＠涙目です。(シンデレラ城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:56:28.84 ID:RH7+YtWv0

I was able to pronounce “McDonald’s” in English, it made me so happy.

But, it’s certainly odd that Japanese people study English for 9 years and end up not being able to speak…
In the Philippines, everyone has excellent English. How do they do it?

84：名無しさん＠涙目です。(江戸城)：2011/10/16(日) 16:57:04.28 ID:koovjyip0

>>76
It’s a national language there.

96：名無しさん＠涙目です。(聚楽第)：2011/10/16(日) 16:58:33.07 ID:odM3c34+0

The English of old was quite straight.
How did Modern English get so estranged in its spelling and pronunciation?

[It was those damn Frenchmen --Shii]

Old English pronunciation

127：名無しさん＠涙目です。(コンデ砦)：2011/10/16(日) 17:03:05.44 ID:GRlq/suz0

>>96
Sounds like German

136：名無しさん＠涙目です。(東日本)：2011/10/16(日) 17:04:46.86 ID:q9sgPpvE0

>>96
The spelling hadn’t been cut off from pronunciation yet, so they spelled words the way they spoke them.

107：名無しさん＠涙目です。(四国地方)：2011/10/16(日) 17:00:10.01 ID:Sz/CqEZW0

>>1
What you learn in school is “English” [not really... --Shii]
What you often need in real life is “English conversation”

They’re quite different

113：名無しさん＠涙目です。(川越城)：2011/10/16(日) 17:01:00.40 ID:34GQC0pg0

It’s because we only learn grammar in class.
Reading power can only be gained through training, there’s no need for all this grammar.

115：名無しさん＠涙目です。(四国地方)：2011/10/16(日) 17:01:41.15 ID:Sz/CqEZW0

>>113
Would you rather have 10 years of English conversation?

128：名無しさん＠涙目です。(コンデ砦)：2011/10/16(日) 17:03:07.16 ID:RFkaG83y0

>>115
Man, I wish!
Let’s use some other damn subject to check people’s IQ on the entrance exams.

134：名無しさん＠涙目です。(水戸城)：2011/10/16(日) 17:04:22.51 ID:LLt0QJMO0

This is hilarious. But, the r and w is really hard.

139：名無しさん＠涙目です。(忍)：2011/10/16(日) 17:05:36.61 ID:7XnwZJPP0

I want an iPhone just to try this out for myself.

267：名無しさん＠涙目です。(姫路城)：2011/10/16(日) 17:25:26.25 ID:UI5hfY9o0

If everyone in the country learns English without ever speaking or needing it, worthless shit katakana English will be with us forever.

280：名無しさん＠涙目です。(小田原城)：2011/10/16(日) 17:28:39.35 ID:wQ9cht63P

>>267
That may have been true in the past, but these days anyone who wants to learn English can see it online. I wouldn’t call it impossible.

339：名無しさん＠涙目です。(水戸城)：2011/10/16(日) 17:40:47.34 ID:l74fVgLBP

Learn your Ls and Rs

367：名無しさん＠涙目です。(長屋)：2011/10/16(日) 17:47:34.59 ID:AiK/js7t0

>>339
This is only the basics, but it’s tooooo hard! Impossible!!

393：名無しさん＠涙目です。(江戸城)：2011/10/16(日) 17:52:25.77 ID:8GZ1BbF20

>>339
How do you hear a distinction between do and zoo?? This is fucking annoying!

389：名無しさん＠涙目です。(九州地方)：2011/10/16(日) 17:51:32.50 ID:AIjBCY2dO

You guys suck

392：名無しさん＠涙目です。(江戸城)：2011/10/16(日) 17:52:21.34 ID:pQKc9SJW0

This is terrible

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