As you know, Japanese people tend not to pronounce "R" and "L" properly.
Of course, me neither.
The other day, my friend tried to collect my
pronunciation and finally,
If I take time to
pronounce, I could manage to
pronounce those two.
(Of course, in conversations, I cannot take time as much as I want, so I always
pronounce wrong.)
We have a common friend called "Ray", but I knew I could not
pronounce his name.
I was told my
pronunciation was more likely "Lay".
So I asked my friend how to
pronounce "Ray".
My friend taught me by pushing his
tongue into a throat side.
It looked very difficult for me and I asked
"But wait, nobody did like this when they call him"
He
said...
"Because...your pronunciation was so cute, everybody copied yours and called him like you do."
Oh my
gooooood!!!
I did not know it and it is really rude for him.
According to my friend, Ray stopped people not to call him like this at the
beginning, but later he gave up...
lolSorry, Ray... I can call your name now only if I take 10 seconds to do so...