Message: "Akiko" - Behind the Name

Akiko

by Agata (ADT)

4/7/2007, 5:16 PM

How is the name Akiko pronounced?

Thanks!

#Akiko

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- YMPvt +5

4/7/2007, 5:56 PM

Ah-KEY-Koh

All the sylables are to be said shortly with the emphasis on the second one. (I take Japanese at school)

- Agata (ADT)

4/8/2007, 12:32 PM

I really don't think that that's it. It's what I initially thought. However I'm reading a novel with a character named Akiko and she ridicules Americans who pronounce her name that way. The real pronunciation is not given.

This message was edited 4/8/2007, 12:32 PM

- ClaudiaS +3

4/7/2007, 5:59 PM

No, there is no stress on the second syllable. It is ah-kee-koh with all syllables stressed equally.

- Agata (ADT)

4/8/2007, 12:33 PM

Thanks!

- YMPvt +1

4/7/2007, 6:18 PM

I would beg to differ based on how my sensei and my friend Chika say it. They are both natives of Japan. Sensei from Tokyo, Chika from the rural northern end of Honshu.

- Minikui (guest)

4/8/2007, 6:35 AM

I think there is no stress, but to our ears there might be one ^^; Because people her tend to stress a syllable too much, a real stress would be too much in japanese ... but simply listen to it somewhere on youtube, for example in videos about the Akiko Suzuki, when they announce her name at the beginning ^^

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