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The original was posted on /r/learnjapanese by /u/japan_noob on 2024-10-05 20:52:30+00:00.
This post isn't meant to throw any shade or start a negative debate but i've been noticing something over the years.
Online primarily, people are really fixated on how people pronounce words in Japanese regarding pitch accent and other sort of things. Not everyone of course but a vocal crowd.
I'm a native English speaker and i've been told my pronunciation when speaking Japanese has gotten pretty good over time after being bad at the start which makes sense.
People who learn English come from very different backgrounds like people who are learning Japanese. They sometimes have such strong accents while speaking English but no one seems to care or say stuff like "You need to improve your English Pronunciation".
I've met hundreds of people the past year and they usually aren't English natives but instead of various countries. For example, I have some Indian, French, Chinese, and Russian, etc friends and when they speak English; sometimes I don't even understand certain words they are saying and I have to listen very closely. Quite frankly, it gets frustrating to even listen to but I accept it because I can at the end of the day understand it.
It's just that I know for sure many people here who are critical about people's Japanese pronunciation probably can't speak English as clear as they believe.
It seems like it's just accepted that people can speak "poor sounding" English but god forbid someone speaks Japanese with an accent; all hell breaks loose.