This book gives true characters of Japanese speech sounds in
reference to European speech sounds. When it was first published in
1931, it was the first book of its kind. There are only 5 Japanese
vowel elements as opposed to 18 in English, 13 in French and 8 in
German. There are 15 Japanese consonants, 26 in English, 22 in
French & 23 in German. Because of the lesser number of
elements, it follows that the wider range in vowels and consonants
is heard by Japanese ears, so this volume gives average sounds
uttered by Japanese in the twentieth century in relation to the
English sounds.
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