Q; pronouncing "Fukushima"

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:46 AM -0800 3/28/11, Chris Waigl wrote:
>On 28 Mar 2011, at 11:31, Lisa Galvin wrote:
>
>>
>>  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
>
>
so the Francophones have a head start...

LH

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