Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-72.66.32.27-20141028214010/@comment-24095889-20141114044318

Yuri Bara wrote: I don't have any friends that like vocaloid, so I've never heard a vocaloid's name other than Miku's. I could be saying everything wrong, I have no idea. Actually, I'm gonna check... The best way is to understand basic Japanese pronunciations. Almost always are the romaji pronunciations consistant except ee and ou. A is pronounced ah as in father, i is pronounced like the letter e as in tree, u is pronounced oo as in moon. o is pronounced like you would say the letter o (minus the glide but that's something long to explain and not that bad unless if you want to speak Japanese). ei is just pronounced ee as in tree and ou is just oo as in moon. For example, I've always heard people misprounce Kaito's name as Kay-tow but the correct way is kaheye-toh. There are not silent vowels like how people say hatsune like hat-soon. Hot-sue-neigh is the correct way. Tsu and r are tricky. R's are actually similar to L's but are somewhat flicked off the tip of the tongue on the roof of the mouth. Lastly, the way I learned to '''pronounce tsu is with the phrase "eat soup". ea [T SOU] p'''. Now you should have anything and everything that could possibly pop up. There are only a few occasions don't follow these rules like desu (like desk minus the kh sound) but you should be good on vocaloid names