주리/エライユ

Welcome to my blog! I decided to jsut make a seperate blog to talk abt the languages I’m learning n to especially experiment with some of my “harder” ones (Korean & Japanese)

languages known

English

Bisaya

Tagalog

Spanish

Japanese

ASL

Korean

future languages

Chinese

French

forget abt what i said understand standing pronunciation

**EXPLODES***

I think Korean uses more of a rounder sound unlike Japanese! Whereas it seems to brighter?

(don't take any of my words as gospel this is just my personal thoughts and observations!)

I think my theory might be correct because “お” in Japanese would equate to “ㅓ” in Korean! Although it has a deeper and longer lasting sound (it resonates as I mentioned before) it seems to also use an open space at the back of ur throat and sometimes a bit of ur chest!

Meanwhile “う” feels like a half way between “ㅜ” and “ㅡ” because it purses my lips in an almost “ㅜ“ shape however it doesn’t as long of a sound

It’s very short and quick! kind of "tense" but not in the "forced" way u may think of like in English

It goes into the difference in intonation!

Japanese vowels feel like a “pinch”, and kinda require to make a rlly "small" shape in mah mouth

Whereas Korean vowels feel surprisingly “loose,” and require a lot of space in my mouth

Also i think lip placement is a factor in the sound too

Which lead to times where it almost felt like I was singing the vowels?? Or I’d accidentally whistle when I mean to say ㅗ/ㅜ

I think I managed to pronounce 한긔 (hangeul) correctly and I was rlly surprised how deep I sound!

(it’s super affirming as a trans man! And it’s quite interesting how different my voice sounds in different languages)

Bisaya - I think I maintain the same pitch as I do English, maybe slightly deeper at times because I describe the language to require “harsh” intonations

Tagalog - same thing. (I’m pretty sure it’s bc my Bisaya accent carries over into my Tagalog although im not fully sure. I’m proud of my accent regardless.)

Spanish - I heard a tip once that Spanish speakers use the back of their mouths to speak Spanish, so I try to use that advice where I can. I think it makes me sound a bit deeper tbh, but it’s not a huge difference since I don’t practice too often.. my spanish speaking accent has said I had a good accent #thanks Bisaya B)

Japanese - A lot of the pronunciation does sound a bit familiar as a bisaya speaker, but it requires a higher intonation (at least for the Tokyo dialect) and shorter sounds so it changes the sound quite a bit. I think I go up a few pitches trying to be accurate but its a bit of a conflict for me Ngl. I already have a high voice 😭 so at times it makes me feel like a Japanese learner who highkey fetishes the culture and speaks like an anime girl 😬😬😬

I try not to sound like that, and I’m pretty sure I don’t..

Korean- again, deeper and almost makes me feel mature in a way? because I lowkey didn’t expect a sound like that to come out my mouth, nor to sound like native speakers I’ve always admired! So pretty neat! Not 100% on my pronunciation skills tho.. but I’m learning..

ASL- this one’s lowkey a bit of a bonus since it isn’t a speaking language! But I’ve been told by my asl teacher that she could tell my style of signing. And a classmate had complimented me, because of my sharp/sure signing that I was a confident signer :3!

I’ve been sporadically spurring through the rest of my pages in my work book…UMMM so far I finally understand ㅂ vs ㅍ, ㅈ vs, ㅊ, ㄱ vs ㅋ and ㄷ vs ㅌ!!

+ ㅅ and ㅇ

I’m slowly getting better at ear training and differentiating ㅓ and ㅗ and hearing the “ee” in ㅡ in comparison to ㅜ!

so far I know… ㅏㅑㅓㅕㅗㅛㅜㅠㅢ (vowels)