why do asian people mispronounce the l and r sounds in english words?

Answer 1

because these sounds are absent in their own language, and they do not sound right for them, so they just can not get used to pronouncing them

Answer 2

During the first 5 years of life we develop what is known as a phonetic genus. This is a group of sounds that make up our vocabulary. The sounds r and l sounds in English are distinct, because we developed a knack for hearing the difference. In Asian Languages, there is no distiction between these two sounds, thus they sound alike to Asian people, the sound differences just aren't part of their phonetic genus. This is what makes learning another language so difficult. Listening to pronunciation takes a lot of training!!

Answer 3

The reason for this is because of their native language. The Asian, Chineese and Japaneese have more distinct and varying sounds to their language. So to them, it sounds as though they are pronouncing it correctly. While to us, it sounds as though they are mispronouncing the letters.

Most people with Asian heritage who was not born in America, or did not have English as their primary language experience this. Their hearing is, for lack of a better term, 'trained' to hear the syllables of their native language. When they attempt to learn another language, such as English, their hearing is still tuned for their native language, and they in turn tend to pronounce some letters differently than we do.

I hope this helps.

Answer 4

It's not asian please, the mispronunciation of the letter L to R is attributed to the Japanese. I think that's because there are no L's in the Japanes vocabulary or its equivalent. If you listen to their language, you won't here the syllables La-Le-Li-Lo-Lu, so in reading or saying an english word with a letter L it comes out R.

Asia is a continent composed of many countries. The people in each country would like to be identified according to where they were born, so Malaysians are from Malaysia, Chinese for China, Japanese for Japan, Filipinos from Philippines, singaporeans from Singapore, etc, etc. Its the same thing for Europe and the North AMericans, or saying all caucasians are americans.

Answer 5

I don't know about all Asian languages, but in Japanese, the L and the R don't exist. They actually something that's in between, which is why it is difficult for them to pronounce it.

(See explanation by people before me)

Ex: English people can't pronounce the French "R" properly (well, some can, of course). And I find it difficult to pronounce the "j" in Spanish (I'm French).

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Try pronouncing their language. I used to live in Korea and I could pronounce Korean clear as a bell--to my ear--and the Koreans would be clueless.

My Spanish is pretty bad, but at least I pronounce it properly.

Answer 8

same as here, when they try learning Asian language also cant speak well, because there are a lots of language. mixed with the local pronounce....

Answer 9

It pretty much depends on their language. I'm aware that the Japanese have a hard time pronouncing the letter "l", and end up saying "r".

If they don't have that letter or sylable in their own (or first language), chances are they'd have a hard time pronouncing these foreign letters/sylables.

Answer 10

how can u say that asians dont pronounce it correctly.
this might b d correct pronounciation and ur's might b wrong.
who knows.