Q; pronouncing "Fukushima"

[Chris Waigl]

On 28 Mar 2011, at 11:31, Lisa Galvin wrote:

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> I think the closest to the Japanese pronunciation would be to pronounce all syllables with equal stress.

... and I've been thinking (not just recently) that the Japanese pronunciation *sounds* to us (native English but also German speakers) as if Japanese put the primary stress on the last syllable. Maybe because it's definitely not on any syllable we'd expect it to be on.

Chris Waigl

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