Ok I speak English and a good bit of Spanish.
But I don't know anything about any Asian languages and how things are pronounced. So obviously pronouncing names in KS is very hard for me. So I want to see what I know and what I don't.
I will just show how I'm sounding it out.
Katawa Shoujo:
Kah-tah-wah Shoo-joh
Yamaku:
Yah-mah-koo
Kenji Setou:
Ken-gee Seh-too
Hanako Ikezawa:
Han-ah-koh Eek-ee-zah-wah
Hisao Nakai:
Hee-sow Nah-kai
Emi Ibarazaki:
Em-ee Ee-barah-zah-kee
Tezuka:
Te-zoo-kah
Satou:
Sah-taow
Shizune Hakamichi:
Shee-zoo-nay Ha-kah-mee-chee
Shiina Mikado:
Shee-nah Mee-kah-doh
Akio Mutou:
Ah-kee-oh Moo-taow
Yuuko Shirakawa:
Yoo-koh Shee-rah-kah-wah
I'm pretty sure I got a lot of those right but I have been corrected more than once on these so I wanted to be sure.
Pronunciation
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Re: Pronunciation
This is the way I pronounce their names, except Shizune. "Shee-zoo-nay" just doesn't sound right to me, at all. I know that's probably the proper way of saying it, but in my opinion, saying Shizune's name as it looks just sounds better.
Re: Pronunciation
Looks right to me. Pretty sure "shoujo" is "sho-joh" though.
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Re: Pronunciation
Shee-zoo-ne (As in Negima)ShadeHaven wrote:This is the way I pronounce their names, except Shizune. "Shee-zoo-nay" just doesn't sound right to me, at all. I know that's probably the proper way of saying it, but in my opinion, saying Shizune's name as it looks just sounds better.
According to my sources, the "ou" is pronounced the same way as the Swedish letter "å".Xanatos wrote:Looks right to me. Pretty sure "shoujo" is "sho-joh" though.
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Re: Pronunciation
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