Ka-pi96 said:
I dunno. But I'd assume professional English teachers (even if they are still Japanese) have way better pronunciation than most/all anime English teachers. Oh and it's especially annoying when they try and portray them as 'authentic' when clearly they're not. Was watching Ass Class and the authentic 'English' (and by that I mean eastern European) teacher was complaining that the Japanese kids couldn't pronounce 'bui' properly. Could have at least got someone that could actually pronounce V if they were going to have that in there... |
Yes they usually are more proficient to speak it but that's why they're specialists. You can't just have an english specialist who is also great at voice acting. It's a unique thing to Japan because their language is so extremely different from european languages. They have a much harder time with the pronunciation because a lot of the sounds we use just don't exist in their language while all of their sounds exist in ours. So give them some slack.
I don't think they want us to believe they're authentic. They're just doing the best they can. But I'm pretty sure that they're aware how weird it sounds. Then again they don't give a shit about these things because animes are not made for western audiences.
If you demand respect or gratitude for your volunteer work, you're doing volunteering wrong.
