ネイティブの耳にどう聞こえるか　その16

>>973
It all depends on how much time you spent studying Japanese.
After I listened to your Japanese, I have decided that what I said about
your Japanese is not wrong. Your Japanese is certainly much worse than
that of my friend who mastered Japanese in 3-4 years. Your pronunciation is
certainly good, but there are still mistakes. You do not seem to know
the difference between "goman" meaning 50,000 and "gohman" meaning
"arrogant." That is a typical mistake made by Americans. My friend's
Japanese pronunciation is literally perfect. No. More than perfect.
There is nothing unnatural about his Japanese in any conceivable respect.
He can score as high on any Japansese test as any intelligent
native Japanese speaker. You can never do that, right? I mean, you can't at
your current level. But of course, I want you to try to master Japanese
just like my friend actually did. It is always nice to have
a goal that someone else has actually reached.

One more thing: your problem with Japanese largely stems from insufficient learning of
the language and a lack of phonetic training by a phonetician or a highly experienced
teacher who knows a lot about phonetics.