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zaik on March 7, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Japan to revise official romanization rules for fi...

My native language is German and Hepburn is much closer to the correct pronunciation than Kunreishiki.

lmm on March 7, 2024 [–]

Really? German "ti" isn't super close to ち, but I found writing it "chi" just completely bizarre.

adastra22 on March 7, 2024 | [–]

The put a t in front of it.

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