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語言: English
nornen (顯示個人資料) 2014年8月19日上午7:40:06
Alkanadi:Just to be clear, does Kiuj sound like Kiwi (the fruit)?No, it does not. The i and the u are in different syllables and they are both full vowels. The j is supposed to be a consonant.
It is pronounced like "key" (sxlosilo) and "uy" like in Spanish "muy".
So basically something like ['ki.uj] (which is just the Esperanto word in square brackets, lol).
Miland (顯示個人資料) 2014年8月19日上午10:37:06
Alkanadi:Just to be clear, does Kiuj sound like Kiwi (the fruit)?No, because the second syllable of kiuj (i.e. uj) is a diphthong, of which the first part is a pure vowel u. Your lips should be rounded when pronouncing it (more than when saying kiwi).
sparksbet (顯示個人資料) 2014年8月19日下午7:27:31
Fenris_kcf:While obviously Esperanto words are best represented in their own orthography, I defy you to name the "right" tool (or any other tool, for that matter) for clarifying pronunciation in writing to a monolingual English speaker who doesn't know the IPA.
Using English orthography to clarify the pronunciation of a word is like eating soup with a fork — works to a certain degree, but is definitely the wrong tool for it.