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[Facts] Japanese
I was playing around with the database and looking at Japanese names since I'm totally in love with them. This reminded me of a book that I had read last summer. One of the character's names was AKIKO - in one part of the book it makes fun of the Americanized pronounciation of the name A-Kee-Ko (funny enough, that's exactly how I had pronounced it as I read it), it never tells you how to truly pronounce it. Does anyone have a clue of the real pronounciation?
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Hi,
You are very close to the real pronounciation. Try not to read the "A" as a single letter, but as in "march".
For me is simple, as I am a romanian and we have almost the same way of reading the words as japanese people.
Their language is very simple......
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Yeah, that's how I've been reading it. Maybe the novel assumed that people would prounonce it A (as in the letter) kiko.Thanks
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