Jk Rowling made up a Japanese wizarding school
The name of which translates to “magic place”
But in a way that is grammatically incorrect
And she’s provided a pronunciation guide!
The pronunciation guide is wrong
*this is not a particularly high bar
WRONG
If you can replace it with “magical” and the sentence still makes sense? Adjective.
Japanese is primarily written in two alphabets - kanji, which are pictographic (each character represents a concept), and hiragana, which are phonetic (each character represents a sound).
anyway watch this to know how to pronounce “Tokoro”
Okay so way back when, like, 5th century, ancient Japanese didn’t have a standardized writing system, so they wound up using the Chinese kanji (pictographic).
YES, YES IT DOES
Can you see where I’m going with this
Like....no
1. Muting this for my sanity
2. I’m VERY BAD at transcribing sounds!! I’ve tried here but they’re probably off - for perfect accuracy please hit up a YouTube video or something, don’t let me teach you wrong!!!