Japanese pronunciation of words.?

Question

I am looking to find a site that will allow me to put in English words and have it translated into what the Japanese word would be in a way that I can read it. I've been able to find lists of common words but not a place where I can input my own. Example: English word 'Basketball'... in addition to the Japanese symbol, it also provided me 'basuketto booru' as the Japanese word to say.

Is there a site that allows me to do that? Both the symbol and the word?

Thanks!

Answer 1

try to find anything on hte Katakana Alphabet, its the alphabet used by japanese. www.kanjisite.com might help you

japanese language, has no close syllables, the u is hardly ever prenounced though, so close syllables are most often replaced with a ru,ku,su,tsu,bu,gu,pu etc

there isnt any true way to write a forreign word in japanese, since it mostly depends on the japanese person that prenounces it, and where in japan he is from.

about the symbols, there are no kanji for most adopted english/dutch words. theyre all written in katakana, all 'real' japanese words are written in hirigana and kanji.

Answer 2

Japanese is among the easiest languages to pronounce because they have fewer phonetics

a = ah
e = ay (but try not to pronounce it 'ay' in 'say' but shorter, consider it without the 'y' part)
i = ee
o = oh (try not to pronounce it 'ow' in 'sow' but shorter and without the w part)
u = oo (try to relax your mouth, it's supposed to sound like a lazy oo)

=> 'basuketto booru' can be pronounced like 'basketto boh roo'

That double oo you see in booru is just o but longer, not like oo in moo
Try not to make the T aspirated like in tea but like T in spanish, and ROO make it soft

Answer 3

http://animelab.com/anime.manga/dictionary/

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