ニュースなどで使われる、いわゆる正統派の英語とされているのが Received Pronunciation (RP)(容認発音)。ビニーが出会う少年スティービーの発音は、こちら寄りにも聞こえます。発音のほか、直接的・婉曲(えんきょく)的な表現や、使われる単語の語源の違いなどにも注目してみると、話者の...
Essentially a straightforward Mandarin learning game with crude animations, minimalist gameplay, and fruit-based pronunciation exercises drawn from early childhood education materials, it has nonetheless captivated international users. For those who once struggled with English, the long-held dream of a ...
Justice Ministry officials said the revision tothe ministerial ordinance for enforcement ofthe Family Register Law will coincide with the introduction of phonetic readings in hiragana above kanji characters to help with pronunciation. A person from Taiwan who has already registered their place of origin ...
5.A speech recognition device as recited in claim 1, wherein:instead of the speech models belonging to the first speech model network and the second speech model network, the speech model storage unit stores a pronunciation indicating character string indicating a pronunciation of the specified word...
Anne-Marie McHarg bellowed best she could while reading a library book in London. Pronunciation expert Aaron Ozment might agree with that onomatopoeic observation for lowing cattle, but he disagreed with neighbors in Kagoshima over the weather. Mariangela Canzi could care less about the cold in Ma...
However, that is easier said than done--and sometimes given up on--because some Chinese pronunciations are practically impossible to transliterate accurately into Japanese. On July 4, exactly 40 years ago, then-Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe instructed the ministry to start pronouncing all Chinese an...
The history of this controversy dates to the Meiji Era (1868-1912). The Hepburn system, developed by James Curtis Hepburn, an American missionary who came to Japan at the end of the Edo Period (1603-1867), is designed to represent Japanese pronunciation in an English-language style. ...
Chinese phrases that mean “frozen garlic,”“town clean-up” and “dried mangoes” are said to be heard everywhere in Taiwan right now. They sound bizarre to foreigners, but for locals, they are familiar election terms that resemble different Chinese expressions in terms of pronunciation or oth...
The training program started in April, but lectures on basic opera techniques and Italian pronunciation were offered remotely in May instead of in-person classes amid the virus spread. To help restart the in-person training, Isoda completed the covering through trial and error in which the wearer...