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Originally Posted by ayurocks20
I'm just going to say that it's really annoying seeing people pretending to know about Japanese pronunciation. 2NE1's Japanese is absolutely brilliant. The only reason people say their Japanese sounds weird, is because they're used to the song being in Korean. I'm friends with many MANY Japanese people and all of them say their Japanese is perfect. They even watched "I AM THE BEST" (Their debut Japanese song) and said that it's basically flawless. So, can the people pretending they know the Japanese language perfectly just stop?
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^ Um, no, and it's INCREDIBLY rude of you to just assume I don't know about Japanese pronunciation or that I'm pretending I "know Japanese perfectly." Incredibly rude and presumptuous. Just to let you know, I'm a linguistics major, and as such I have learned a little about phonetics and phonology. >_> In other words, unless you've also majored in linguistics, I probably know a little bit more about the sounds of language than you do. Therefore I'm not saying their Japanese is weird because I'm used to the song in Korean. It's bad because their Japanese is bad. They sing with thick Korean accents, much thicker than any other jpop-gone Korean group I can think of. And from the sounds of their Japanese, it's very, very obvious that they weren't trained in it. Your "Japanese friends" saying their Japanese is "perfect" is not really that big of a feat, considering I had many, many people tell me my Japanese pronunciation was perfect when I was younger and I know for a fact it was horrible back then.
Not to mention the fact that people seem to always tend to say "so and so has great {whatever language!}" when that's not necessarily the case. The first example that comes to mind was with BoA's English album. Her accent was super thick and unintelligible in a lot of parts, but people still said her English was great in it anyways.
tl;dr Their Japanese is FAR from brilliant and I do know what Japanese is supposed to sound like.