Comments by "Cottidae" (@CottidaeSEA) on "Do Japanese Mix Up "L" and "R" When Speaking English? | ASIAN BOSS" video.

  1. When it comes to Japan, I think it's important to teach pronunciation because of R and L mostly. Still, if they want to teach English as much as they do, they should at least make sure that it's possible for them to be understood when necessary. I've heard many stories where people have asked questions in English and gotten answers in Japanese, because they understood English, they just couldn't speak it.
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  2. I studied Spanish for a little more than 3 years. We went through grammar, (-ar, -o, -as, -a, -an and all of those for verbs for example) but we also did a lot of pronunciation and how to speak in actual conversations. In that sense it was good. The bad thing was that we had teachers leaving all the time, so I ended up having around 6 different teachers during that time. It became extremely inefficient, so I can't speak much. I can understand way more than I can speak. If I hear two people speak Spanish, I'll roughly understand what they are talking about. I think pronunciation is very important, and should be one of the first things to work on. Grammar and vocabulary is something you'll learn eventually, but with pronunciation, unless you fix that first, you'll get bad habits.
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