{"id":11607,"date":"2024-08-07T19:42:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T02:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11607"},"modified":"2024-08-09T11:32:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T18:32:05","slug":"what-does-english-sound-like-to-japanese-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11607","title":{"rendered":"What does English sound like to Japanese folks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tNQoZ0XVFKo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love listening to other cultures impressions of what English sounds like. <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5481\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5481\">I&#8217;ve written about it before<\/a>. This video from Japan had me rolling. It&#8217;s pretty spot on for imitating the younger US tourist crowd that often goes to Japan &#8211; which is likely who these Japanese folks run into most of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things I noticed about their impressions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Immediately start speaking 50% louder<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heavily annunciate\/separate syllables<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s US English (vs British English)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Throw in a lot of body movement and body language &#8211; hip-hop style\/Italian style<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love listening to other cultures impressions of what English sounds like. I&#8217;ve written about it before. This video from Japan had me rolling. It&#8217;s pretty spot on for imitating the younger US tourist crowd that often goes to Japan &#8211; which is likely who these Japanese folks run into most of the time. Things I noticed about their impressions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-31d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11862,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11607\/revisions\/11862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}