How To Pronounce Japanese

In British English, Japanese is pronounced /ˌdʒæp.əˈniːz/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˌdʒæp.əˈniːz]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˌdʒæp.əˈniːz/.

Japanese has three syllables, and the main stress falls on the third syllable. British and American speakers say it the same way.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.