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Originally Posted by risingstar3110
I know Japanese can say words start with "V"(e.g Victory). But do they have a writing character that you pronounces as V (as there is no V in Kanakana, isn't there)?
If they does not, how can Japanese students learn to pronounce English words start with V ? Through kanji?
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There is no "v" in katakana, but there are ways to deal with this.
One way is to substitute with a "b" sound. There is also the interesting use of ヴ followed by an auxiliary vowel in smaller/subscripted font to represent the "v" sound.
"violin" can be written in katakana as
- バイオリン
and
- ヴァイオリン