why cant the japanese people say the letter r?
Biology · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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There's a simple reason why Japanese people can't pronounce R and L correctly. They don't exist in Japanese. The Japanese version of the 'rrr' type of sound, the ra ri ru re ro (ら り る れ ろ) row in the phonetic hiragana alphabet, is somewhere between R and L.