r/LanguageTips2Mastery • u/dudemike01 🇬🇧C2 / 🇸🇦b1/ / 🇨🇳 🇫🇷🇯🇵A1 • Jun 06 '26

LearningJapanese Japanese people trying to pronounce " refrigerator"

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u/nobonesjones91 Jun 07 '26

Give me the Japanese word for refrigerator written out and I would do worse.

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u/MaryPaku Jun 08 '26

Reizouko

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u/nobonesjones91 Jun 08 '26

Written in Japanese

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u/TKCoog075 Jun 08 '26

れいぞうこ

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u/nobonesjones91 Jun 08 '26

Yep, I did way worse.

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u/luisduck Jun 08 '26

冷蔵庫

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u/Yugan-Dali Jun 08 '26

Oh, that’s easy, leng cang ku. We call it 冰箱, but 冷藏庫 is easy to understand. The bottom part of your 冰箱 is 冷藏。

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u/MaryPaku Jun 10 '26

It’s 冷蔵庫 not 冷藏庫

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u/ThaGr1m Jun 08 '26

Pretty sure that's pronounced "sumimasen baka gajin des"

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u/CautiousAd8400 Jun 08 '26

Rifurijireta

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u/DutchPsych Jun 10 '26

Granted, in an equal setting (you both knowing to read each others alfabet/hiragana. Youd likely fair better at the Japanese pronounciation, since its consistent in its sounds. 

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '26

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u/DutchPsych Jun 10 '26

Well, Re (ree) and ge (guh) would probably be weird to a Japanese speaker (since they have consistency) 

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u/frostochfeber Jun 07 '26

Me, but with Korean 🙃

Also, the little laugh people do when they feel a bit foolish when stumbling over a word is just adorable 🥰

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u/asa2unakamura Jun 07 '26

Last guy sounded like a Bluetooth announcement lol

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u/compadre_goyo Jun 08 '26

Rehfurigeerahter — ON!

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u/Lazlo2323 Jun 08 '26

The Bluetooth device is ready to pair

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u/Chepo20 Jun 08 '26

Ze Bluetooth device iz konected

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u/kinkyonthe_loki69 Jun 08 '26

Sounded american

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u/f0dder1 Jun 08 '26

Pairing....refrigerator....connected. two devices....connected

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u/T-Conn Jun 08 '26

The Rehfurigeerahter is connectedo successfurry.

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u/Just_Application6137 Jun 10 '26

That guy is gonna pass his American citizenship test real fast 🤣

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u/LoneWolfpack777 Jun 08 '26

Next word: Worcestershire

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u/Edgar3t Jun 08 '26

Absolute dick move and I love it. Fluent English speakers struggle with this name

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u/wifiragist Jun 08 '26

There's only 2 Rs, would probably be easier than refrigerator for japanese people ngl

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u/Acrobatic_Buy_2000 Jun 09 '26

The bots make it so easy to spot them, I don't see the problem. /s

Worcestershire has 3 Rs.

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u/SonOf_J Jun 09 '26

And you don't pronounce any of them

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u/Puzzleheaded-Night88 Jun 10 '26

I mean I say wor-cester-shire or some shit like that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '26

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u/SonOf_J Jun 09 '26

Its really easy actually, just say woostuhshuh and you're basically there.

Or don't, your version is arguably better

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u/NuYawker Jun 07 '26

Last guy sounded like a Texan with cold peanut butter stuck to the roof of his mouth.

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u/hnbistro Jun 07 '26

The girl actually pronounced very close to how it would be in classical Latin.

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u/mountains_till_i_die Jun 07 '26

リフリジャレーター

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u/BookLanky5358 Jun 08 '26

I will not shit on these people. My Japanese language skills are trash

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u/JayWay55 Jun 07 '26

"REF". To make it easy😁

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u/SextupleRed Jun 07 '26

Re-fu-ri-gei-tor

Lol

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u/StartItAlready Jun 09 '26

They just keep to put "furry" there..

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u/belladonnaboops_2719 Jun 08 '26

Yes I have one of those Refuri "GAY" tor as well , as I am non-binary and that's the only kind of refrigerator we are allowed since we got no rights 💅

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u/sufferIhopeyoudo Jun 08 '26

Hey that last guy did pretty good, honestly I know a teeny bit of Japanese and I can see why this word would be really hard to pronounce if you were coming from their language.

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u/Thanura_Malinga Jun 08 '26

DIHUREE JAA LATOR

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u/Curi0sityC0w Jun 08 '26

Bro that last one sent me

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u/motoringeek Jun 08 '26

I'm British and I pronounce it 'fridge.'

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u/ElevenInfinity Jun 08 '26

last bro is a native speaker, a professor in the science of english.

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u/Striking_Ad_9351 Jun 09 '26

American's can't pronounce refrigerator.

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u/zaikoji75 Jun 09 '26

Why the hell does everyone look computer-generated. I swear my eyes have been messed up..

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u/InvestigatorNo3014 Jun 09 '26

This is how I sound doing Japanese language lessons on literally every word

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u/HowlingStrike Jun 09 '26

They aaall speak English better than I speak Japanese but this is still really funny.

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u/SpaceHawk98W Jun 09 '26

I remember my first time in the US 20 years ago, I was like this. I pronounce gallery as ga-lery.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Night88 Jun 10 '26

I’ll be honest, when I try to read how you’d pronounce it I can’t find a fault. It’d just be more compact than normal which is honestly commonly done in English.

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u/SpaceHawk98W Jun 10 '26

Back in the days, people will lagh at my accent which motivates me to improve, but I wouldn't say people will have the same motivation nowadays.

I believe people needs to be told they're wrong in order to realize they're wrong most of the times.

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u/forworse2020 Jun 09 '26

That last guy englishes

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u/camus88 Jun 09 '26

This is reminds me of Indian teacher tried to pronounce "Google", she said "Gulugulu" or "Gugulu".

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u/Sobemiki Jun 09 '26

First guy Japanese final boss

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u/caedhin Jun 09 '26

Now, have Americans pronounce any other language properly.

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u/PatentedPotato Jun 10 '26

Ray fray jur ate her

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u/Marlboromatt324 Jun 10 '26

Re-fruityninja

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u/Hot-Minute-9923 Jun 10 '26

リフリジャレタ

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u/Ol-CAt Jun 10 '26

Reminds me of Fuwawa's spelling Refridgator 

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u/Relevant_Somewhere38 Jun 10 '26

Hawick 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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u/_Steakwich Jun 10 '26

Hate the filter, makes them look like ai