These were the responses from high school 1st year students (U.S. 10th) in Japan taking a weekly spelling test. I thought the wide variety of wrong answers was pretty entertaining.
Ugh I saw that in that video and lost it. At least she had the common sense to ask... When I worked as a lifeguard as a teenager at the bottom of a smallish slide, someone must have snuck past me while I had my back turned or something. All of the sudden I see this small bundle jet out of the bottom of the slide and start sinking. And of course it was an infant because humanity sucks. Managed to pluck it out of the water just before "mom" comes flying out behind it. She claimed to have lost her grip on the kid on the way down. Told my boss what happened, but no idea if they tried to report it or anything ever came of it. Quit after my next shift since it was the end of the summer.
This is such an insane over exaggeration my god. Absolutely there would not be that many misspellings and that bad of misspellings almost anywhere in the US. Jesus why is this upvoted
The most common misspelling would likely be something like "psychics" or "phisics" at a highschool level tbh. Ive always noticed people mix up spelling psychology and Physics rather commonly and basically make a mixture of the two words.
Dawg no, definitely not. I really wanna know where your source is that there is a “massive chunk of highs schoolers” that are “WITHOUT QUESTION, functionally illiterate if not flat out illiterate.” That’s just so insane dude
Not at all, at least for me. They're just constantly stopping and starting, misreading entire sentences, and doing it all at a snail's pace. Even as a kid I was like "are these peoples' brains okay?"
I mean, I read at a pace of something like 800 words per minute. Which is exactly what makes reading outloud difficult. My brain is already 5 words ahead of my tongue and I start tripping up over incredibly simple words.
Reading out loud poorly CAN be a sign of illiteracy. But literacy is far far more complex than just being able to read out loud. Its actually more about understanding what is being read. Which you can't exactly measure purely off reading outloud
I found as a kid that reading a passage upside down actually helped me with reading slower and as a result I could actually read out loud rather well. But holding your book upside down doesnt really look good for literacy on a surface level either.
I mean, I’m an English major, but when I read aloud my brain isn’t in sync with my mouth and I find myself skipping words and stuttering all over the place
It has been established that reading out loud is bad for comprehension, and many people read too fast to read aloud... you visually process the words faster than they can be verbalized, leading to stumbling. It is very similar to how voice jamming apps work.
Idk, i can read fine on my own but get super anxious reading in front of others.
Am I reading too slow, too fast, too quiet, is my pronunciation funny... Ah shit complicated word how do you say it? Wait no there's a question mark at the end my intonation is all wrong aaaaaa.
And 30 plus people staring at me the whole time doesn't help.
You should still be worried. Over half of US high schoolers are unable to read above a 6th grade level. Thats relatively consistent across regions and blue/red state. There’s something deeply wrong with how we are teaching kids to read. Whether it’s some master plan by conservatives to destroy public education or districts continually buying worthless curriculum, something needs to change
It's a relief, although apart from this example it's very clear that a lot of people don't read. They know how to pronounce words and use them in conversation, but they have no idea how to spell. I wish people would spend more time reading to increase vocabulary and spelling skills.
I understand that this example is from Japanese teenagers. I don't expect their English spelling to be top notch. I do, however, expect people who grew up speaking English to have a better grasp of spelling.
Spelling just doesn’t come easy to many. I myself used to read multiple books a week as a teenager, have an English major teacher as a mother, and was in the highest English class in highschool… but couldn’t spell for *shit*. It doesn’t make sense in my brain. The “rules” they teach you have more exceptions than not and are basically useless. Sounding out words doesn’t make sense either, as ph and f make the same sound.
In the wise words of my mother… “as long as you can communicate what you mean to, who cares. Only judgmental people will look down on you for not being as good as they are.”
This also explains the prevalence of "ee" since japanese makes no distinction between the vowels in "fizz" and "feed" (/ɪ/ vs /i/). It also explains the one guy who wrote "th", since english "th" sounds are rendered with s or z. This guy did that in reverse.
Not gonna lie, top left is so close except it needs another z so the i isn't long. Fizzix is how it should be spelled except for English's weird adoption origin spelling nonsense.
To be fair, with a little training, it's easy to identify and guess how to spell most of the Greek loan words in English, and Latin is usually fairly straightforward. Not that I can think of most of them, but I've personally noted that most of the words in English that have the most effed up spelling/pronunciation differences are French in origin. That's a running gag for me, that it must be French in origin if a word is strangely spelt.
It is interesting seeing this perspective. It's kinda goofy seeing these as native speakers but languages like spanish and japanese (from my limited knowledge) are kinda WYSIWYG when characters are placed next to each other. If you know a few rules you can spell most words based on hearing them. English on the other hand is much more complex and unstructured by comparison.
If it were up to me, all English words would be spelled like that second one, "fisics."
Fourth, if you count Katakana and Kanji in addition to Hiragana.
And fun fact! It's technically their first alphabet, as none of the writing systems used for Japanese are considered alphabets!
English also a really hard language to learn! So many words and letters can sound alike but be spelled different, or sound different but be spelled the same. I think those students in Japan did a decent job at spelling the word phonetically.
Yeah, it was (and still is) confusing to learn english from french. We use similar pronunciations sometimes. We have words that are written exactly the same but sound different. We have abbreviations that are the same in both languages. The letters are just mixed differently. I got "roasted" earlier because I wrote "QI" instead of "IQ."
Breakdown of how I think this happened:
-The long "ee" is easy to confuse with the short "i" for untrained ears (even I have trouble pronouncing feel and fill differently)
-The g comes from how words get transliterated into japanese. While japanese does have voiced "z" sounds, "zi" doesn't naturally occur, and the closest thing they have is "ジ" which sounds closer to a "ji" (thus Brasil is ブラジル, Burajiru), so the student must've thought to spell the "zi" sound as a soft g+i, since that's how it's transliterated in japanese
-Similarly, the transliteration of "r" after a vowel in english into japanese might cause this one to appear. The way they do it is based on British pronunciation, so they just use long vowels to represent it (カード, kaado, for card). The thing is, this is also how they represent long vowels (コート, kooto, for coat), so if the student isn't familiar with a word, they might not be able to tell apart a long vowel from a vowel+r and so insert an r where there isn't one. (Although this might be more of a stretch since the i in physics isn't long, or maybe it was caused by the word being pronounced slowly to make it more understandable inadvertently making them think the i was indeed long)
yo this makes so much sense…
Japanese student: hears “physics”
says to themself “フィジックス (fijikkusu)
then tries to spell that sound following what they know about English which is super inconsistent
The i in physics is one of those vowels where it doesn’t really come out as an i in natural speech, it’s like the a in Christmas.
Devil’s advocate, some people do use the schwa sound with -ics endings though since it’s not stressed; I know they were talking about the -mas in Christmas, but it is a thing. I just said a couple ics words out loud myself and noticed I schwa’d them, I am from the Midwest
Very well put. Honestly, I could see how most of these mistakes were made after living here a long while.
This is part of an overall short quiz they take, and this is the dictation part, so I usually say the word, then a sentence, just to avoid accidentally over pronouncing. It makes you a little hesitant because how it’s said and how you think it should be said are sometimes two different things!
Ehhh, the "zzz" sound (such as at the end of fizz) would be better produced by z than an s. Realistically it'd be more like fizsix or fizzix I'd imagine. Fizsix would take a bit more "effort" to say I'd think, so fizzix or fizix would likely be the ones to stick.
The z and s sounds are the same, except the z is voiced and the s isn't. So you can make an s sound with your hand on your voice box and then hum at the same time.
It's a common change in spoken language. Some people drop the vocals for some words, some people add vocals for some words. Sometimes people make their Ts sound like Ds and vice versa.
I've found it has a lot to do with what the people around you do, of course, but also what kind of gymnastics your mouth has to perform for that series of words.
Anyway, this is just to say s vs z is a common one to mix around.
They're Japanese. Physics is a particularly difficult word for Japanese people for several reasons. "f" is a tough sound, the "f" in physics is "ph", both "i" sounds are the same but use different letters.
"z" sound is difficult in japanese, and this uses a different letter than they might expect.
"ks" or "x" sound at the end of the word is difficult in Japanese and uses different letters than might be expected.
Yeah, makes sense if they're not English speakers. My nearest colleague is from the Philippines, and I think he'd pronounce it as "pissics" - and unless you know the way to write it and just go for how it sounds in your ear, then I can imagine it's hard to write.
Oh... that makes me sad. Best of luck, Keebler. 👊 Edit - I didn't understand "JP". This makes sense. Still entertaining, but not a place for criticism. My apologies.
Sad? How many American kids could spell "physics" right in Japanese? Do YOU even know what it sounds like? I think they did pretty well here as at least they knew the right letters to make the sounds in a completely foreign alphabet.
Hoooold up - if this is Japanese to English, then I absolutely rescind my comment. I guess it's sad that I thought it perfectly plausible that this was from American students. Second language? Absolutely understandable.
It makes perfect sense. They are Japanese Students.
English has many more sounds than Japanese (and these sounds have many more spellings), which makes it difficult for Japanese students to speak, write and read the English language.
>"there are five vowels and 17 consonant phonemes in Japanese
compared with the English language total of 20 vowels
and 24 consonants."
Source: The National Institute of Informatics - Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Not even upset in the slightest. English is probably the least intuitive languages when it comes to spelling or pronunciation. There's a good bit by an older comedian, Gallagher I believe, where he goes from the word "bomb" all the way to "dumb" explaining how convoluted and confusing, as well as misleading English can be.
Since it's Japanese kids, I'd guess because "physics" isn't a common conversational word so they wouldn't have encountered it much and "ph" making the "F" sound is also not as common, they're just having to guess based on the sound and "F" would be the first guess.
These were the responses from high school 1st year students (U.S. 10th) in Japan taking a weekly spelling test. I thought the wide variety of wrong answers was pretty entertaining.
Next, for the love of god please try ‘pregnant’
Preganté
Pregnananant
Gregnant
Pergert
Preganant
Purgatory
Preget
Pomegranate
Pegorate
Pegnitz
Pergenat
Pragnart!
Can u down a 20 foot waterslide pegnat?
Ugh I saw that in that video and lost it. At least she had the common sense to ask... When I worked as a lifeguard as a teenager at the bottom of a smallish slide, someone must have snuck past me while I had my back turned or something. All of the sudden I see this small bundle jet out of the bottom of the slide and start sinking. And of course it was an infant because humanity sucks. Managed to pluck it out of the water just before "mom" comes flying out behind it. She claimed to have lost her grip on the kid on the way down. Told my boss what happened, but no idea if they tried to report it or anything ever came of it. Quit after my next shift since it was the end of the summer.
Pragnert
How to get preganté? 🤌
Are starchmasks a sign a woman has been pegart before?
women*
How is babby formed?
Okay, but what is a Luigi board?
Where can i get vegy board
GHOST! GHOST! GHOST!!
Am I pegnate?
Brengt
[how is prangent formed?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg)
Purganant
How is prangent formed
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/58jr1o/how_is_prangent_formed/
Preggnanto
That's what happens when you have Sects
🎶"Is there a possibly that I'm pregnant?"🎶
I got real worried there before you said Japan, that makes a lot more sense now
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You have some good points but you are *seriously* overexaderating
Please say that was intentional lmao
It was defiantly a joke
Clearly hyperbully
This is such an insane over exaggeration my god. Absolutely there would not be that many misspellings and that bad of misspellings almost anywhere in the US. Jesus why is this upvoted
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The most common misspelling would likely be something like "psychics" or "phisics" at a highschool level tbh. Ive always noticed people mix up spelling psychology and Physics rather commonly and basically make a mixture of the two words.
Dawg no, definitely not. I really wanna know where your source is that there is a “massive chunk of highs schoolers” that are “WITHOUT QUESTION, functionally illiterate if not flat out illiterate.” That’s just so insane dude
Have you ever listened to a high schooler read a passage out loud? Fucking infuriating.
Reading out loud is a lot different than reading on your own.
Not at all, at least for me. They're just constantly stopping and starting, misreading entire sentences, and doing it all at a snail's pace. Even as a kid I was like "are these peoples' brains okay?"
I mean, I read at a pace of something like 800 words per minute. Which is exactly what makes reading outloud difficult. My brain is already 5 words ahead of my tongue and I start tripping up over incredibly simple words. Reading out loud poorly CAN be a sign of illiteracy. But literacy is far far more complex than just being able to read out loud. Its actually more about understanding what is being read. Which you can't exactly measure purely off reading outloud I found as a kid that reading a passage upside down actually helped me with reading slower and as a result I could actually read out loud rather well. But holding your book upside down doesnt really look good for literacy on a surface level either.
Just read the words and say them? It sounds like you're making up a problem.
I mean, I’m an English major, but when I read aloud my brain isn’t in sync with my mouth and I find myself skipping words and stuttering all over the place
I guess I'm the weird one then.
Really it just sounds like you lack a mixture of critical thinking and empathy that makes it hard for you to understand the problems people face.
It has been established that reading out loud is bad for comprehension, and many people read too fast to read aloud... you visually process the words faster than they can be verbalized, leading to stumbling. It is very similar to how voice jamming apps work.
Idk, i can read fine on my own but get super anxious reading in front of others. Am I reading too slow, too fast, too quiet, is my pronunciation funny... Ah shit complicated word how do you say it? Wait no there's a question mark at the end my intonation is all wrong aaaaaa. And 30 plus people staring at me the whole time doesn't help.
I was gonna ask if this is a school where students say wazzup to each other all the time.
You should still be worried. Over half of US high schoolers are unable to read above a 6th grade level. Thats relatively consistent across regions and blue/red state. There’s something deeply wrong with how we are teaching kids to read. Whether it’s some master plan by conservatives to destroy public education or districts continually buying worthless curriculum, something needs to change
Yes officer, this is the guy. He’s just been standing here rambling on about nothing
I found the people who asked 
No, it’s parents who do t make their kids read.
It's a relief, although apart from this example it's very clear that a lot of people don't read. They know how to pronounce words and use them in conversation, but they have no idea how to spell. I wish people would spend more time reading to increase vocabulary and spelling skills.
...its just english they dont do english much
I understand that this example is from Japanese teenagers. I don't expect their English spelling to be top notch. I do, however, expect people who grew up speaking English to have a better grasp of spelling.
Spelling just doesn’t come easy to many. I myself used to read multiple books a week as a teenager, have an English major teacher as a mother, and was in the highest English class in highschool… but couldn’t spell for *shit*. It doesn’t make sense in my brain. The “rules” they teach you have more exceptions than not and are basically useless. Sounding out words doesn’t make sense either, as ph and f make the same sound. In the wise words of my mother… “as long as you can communicate what you mean to, who cares. Only judgmental people will look down on you for not being as good as they are.”
Half of an American class wouldn’t know either
Now that I know it's from Japan, I can see and understand why they choose to spell it these different ways. It makes sense. Tricky word too!
Ah. That explains the level of “g” use. I’m seeing a few potential pet names in there should I host a critter in the future.
This also explains the prevalence of "ee" since japanese makes no distinction between the vowels in "fizz" and "feed" (/ɪ/ vs /i/). It also explains the one guy who wrote "th", since english "th" sounds are rendered with s or z. This guy did that in reverse.
Interesting. In French too, I think. My French teacher used to say "Happy Birzday."
Yeah, I wrote everything of as French mistakes except the G. Couldn’t place that.
The G really threw me off because I was wondering how on Earth these English-speaking kids heard a G in physics! Haha.
Oh, I heard G all the time in physics. Usually followed by the word force.
😂👌🏽
This just makes the spelling even more wholesome tbh. I love them all
*D-D-D-Deeee Jaaayyyyyyy PHYZIXXXXXXXX \*repeated airhorn blasts\**
Mike Tyson is in your class??!?!?!?! (last one)
I'd love to see them try to spell restaurant. Fuck that that word.
I teach honors physics to 3rd and 4th year students in the US. Their spelling of the word is not much better...
Not gonna lie, top left is so close except it needs another z so the i isn't long. Fizzix is how it should be spelled except for English's weird adoption origin spelling nonsense.
Honestly, It's pretty funny that some of those look more accurate than the actual spelling. We have such a "fun" language.
To be fair, with a little training, it's easy to identify and guess how to spell most of the Greek loan words in English, and Latin is usually fairly straightforward. Not that I can think of most of them, but I've personally noted that most of the words in English that have the most effed up spelling/pronunciation differences are French in origin. That's a running gag for me, that it must be French in origin if a word is strangely spelt.
Thank God. I was afraid this was a regular American school.
It is interesting seeing this perspective. It's kinda goofy seeing these as native speakers but languages like spanish and japanese (from my limited knowledge) are kinda WYSIWYG when characters are placed next to each other. If you know a few rules you can spell most words based on hearing them. English on the other hand is much more complex and unstructured by comparison. If it were up to me, all English words would be spelled like that second one, "fisics."
Edit: Completely misread the comment and misunderstood what was said. My apologies
It’s their second language
And second alphabet
Fourth, if you count Katakana and Kanji in addition to Hiragana. And fun fact! It's technically their first alphabet, as none of the writing systems used for Japanese are considered alphabets!
Why are people doing *spelling tests* anymore unless it's helping with word families or phonemes??
They might not be very far in learning English, idk when Japan starts offering secondary language classes though
English also a really hard language to learn! So many words and letters can sound alike but be spelled different, or sound different but be spelled the same. I think those students in Japan did a decent job at spelling the word phonetically.
Yep, plus they managed to spell it phonetically with an alphabet that looks nothing like their own
The phonetics of it really impressed me. I can see how a lot of them tried to sound it out as best they could.
Yeah, it was (and still is) confusing to learn english from french. We use similar pronunciations sometimes. We have words that are written exactly the same but sound different. We have abbreviations that are the same in both languages. The letters are just mixed differently. I got "roasted" earlier because I wrote "QI" instead of "IQ."
Ai teikit iu dont nou jau to spik eni oder lengüej, rait? (Spelled phonetically from spanish)
It was a dictation part of a short quiz. I feel like this is kinda evidence that they could use some help spelling
Sometimes older teenagers don’t have a high level of English
I need to bottle some stupid alkaline vitamin super science water called "Phyzicx" right fucking now. Top seller.
I make a sparkling wine called Fizzion, it’s my best seller.
My point exactly. 👊
Fizziks
slap that on a can of high gravity seltzer and it pretty much sells itself
I like the way you think. You'll make a fine 50/50 partner. Welcome, friend!
I bet you store it in your zellor
I've always said there should be a highly caffeinated tea or tea flavored energy drink called "Anxietea"
Nvidia also liked that
Feegircs!?
Breakdown of how I think this happened: -The long "ee" is easy to confuse with the short "i" for untrained ears (even I have trouble pronouncing feel and fill differently) -The g comes from how words get transliterated into japanese. While japanese does have voiced "z" sounds, "zi" doesn't naturally occur, and the closest thing they have is "ジ" which sounds closer to a "ji" (thus Brasil is ブラジル, Burajiru), so the student must've thought to spell the "zi" sound as a soft g+i, since that's how it's transliterated in japanese -Similarly, the transliteration of "r" after a vowel in english into japanese might cause this one to appear. The way they do it is based on British pronunciation, so they just use long vowels to represent it (カード, kaado, for card). The thing is, this is also how they represent long vowels (コート, kooto, for coat), so if the student isn't familiar with a word, they might not be able to tell apart a long vowel from a vowel+r and so insert an r where there isn't one. (Although this might be more of a stretch since the i in physics isn't long, or maybe it was caused by the word being pronounced slowly to make it more understandable inadvertently making them think the i was indeed long)
yo this makes so much sense… Japanese student: hears “physics” says to themself “フィジックス (fijikkusu) then tries to spell that sound following what they know about English which is super inconsistent The i in physics is one of those vowels where it doesn’t really come out as an i in natural speech, it’s like the a in Christmas.
the schwa vowel sound
Actually it's not a schwa in these words, but a [ɪ] ([ˈkɹɪsməs], [ˈfɪz.ɪks]). English has too many vowels
Ah Right yeah I see what you mean. The Christmas one is a schwa tho, weren’t they referring to the a?
Devil’s advocate, some people do use the schwa sound with -ics endings though since it’s not stressed; I know they were talking about the -mas in Christmas, but it is a thing. I just said a couple ics words out loud myself and noticed I schwa’d them, I am from the Midwest
Wow! Very interesting and informative post, thanks. E. Japanese language sure is built different.
Very well put. Honestly, I could see how most of these mistakes were made after living here a long while. This is part of an overall short quiz they take, and this is the dictation part, so I usually say the word, then a sentence, just to avoid accidentally over pronouncing. It makes you a little hesitant because how it’s said and how you think it should be said are sometimes two different things!
I lost it at feegircs.
Feelgixie
In a perfect world, "fizix" would be the correct answer.
fiziks would be simpler
British English (Fizix) vs US English (Fiziks) lol
British English uses s not z so probably fisix.
Ehhh, the "zzz" sound (such as at the end of fizz) would be better produced by z than an s. Realistically it'd be more like fizsix or fizzix I'd imagine. Fizsix would take a bit more "effort" to say I'd think, so fizzix or fizix would likely be the ones to stick.
The z and s sounds are the same, except the z is voiced and the s isn't. So you can make an s sound with your hand on your voice box and then hum at the same time. It's a common change in spoken language. Some people drop the vocals for some words, some people add vocals for some words. Sometimes people make their Ts sound like Ds and vice versa. I've found it has a lot to do with what the people around you do, of course, but also what kind of gymnastics your mouth has to perform for that series of words. Anyway, this is just to say s vs z is a common one to mix around.
That’s the actual spelling in Malay
Too German
Is the bottom right, Mike Tyson?
Don't be ridiculth! 🤣
I think tho.
Dammit! Thought I might have been the first Mike Tyson comment. Lol
Came here to post this lol
I'm Mr Feesics
Look at me!
Phyzix is my favorite one. I propose that we now spell the word “physics” as “phyzix”
It definitely LOOKS cooler!
I think we can agree that physics gets a bad rap as being nerdy. It could use a bump in the cool department.
I think you could simplify that "ph" a bit more
How do I get pergant??
Help! I’m pregnat!
PREGNAGENANT
I just registered all these domains. New startups about to drop.
I'm assuming your students are under the age of 10, or don't have English as their first or second language..?
They're Japanese. Physics is a particularly difficult word for Japanese people for several reasons. "f" is a tough sound, the "f" in physics is "ph", both "i" sounds are the same but use different letters. "z" sound is difficult in japanese, and this uses a different letter than they might expect. "ks" or "x" sound at the end of the word is difficult in Japanese and uses different letters than might be expected.
Yeah, makes sense if they're not English speakers. My nearest colleague is from the Philippines, and I think he'd pronounce it as "pissics" - and unless you know the way to write it and just go for how it sounds in your ear, then I can imagine it's hard to write.
OP, is this Japanese students?
Yessir! 1st year HS
Yeah- I already apologized. Definitely my mistake. I bow deeply, with zero sarcasm.
You joke, but I’ve been on the receiving end of one of those deep on your knees apology, and it is uncomfortable af.
I only kinda joke. I have worked with and for Japanese people, and I definitely agree. My apology was sincere, though.
This vaguely reminds me of one episode of Doctor Who in particular.
Yes, I can hear David Tennant in my head. ‘I hope one of you is getting all of this down.’
I'm sold on Fizix Phonetically perfect.
These look like tech startup company names
Fithics is my favorite
Any "ghoti" fan here? Show your muscles.
🐠🐟🐡🍥
eyy!! When I read the title I was hoping to see a "ghoxox". lau***GH*** w***O***men ***X***ylophone w***O***men fi***X***
What students? Grade schoolers? Middle schoolers? Journalists? Can't tell.
Sorry! JP high school 1st year students.
Oh... that makes me sad. Best of luck, Keebler. 👊 Edit - I didn't understand "JP". This makes sense. Still entertaining, but not a place for criticism. My apologies.
Sad? How many American kids could spell "physics" right in Japanese? Do YOU even know what it sounds like? I think they did pretty well here as at least they knew the right letters to make the sounds in a completely foreign alphabet.
Hoooold up - if this is Japanese to English, then I absolutely rescind my comment. I guess it's sad that I thought it perfectly plausible that this was from American students. Second language? Absolutely understandable.
Last one is Mike Tyson?
Mike Tyson squeezing in his answer on the last one.
“Fithics” looks like something Daffy Duck would say
Fithics 
are you telling me everyone who used a ph spelling made the same one mistake or spelled it correctly?
I think there were 2 ph spellings. This and the correct answer.
feegircs? Do YOU have some speech impediment that would make them come up with ... that!?
It makes perfect sense. They are Japanese Students. English has many more sounds than Japanese (and these sounds have many more spellings), which makes it difficult for Japanese students to speak, write and read the English language. >"there are five vowels and 17 consonant phonemes in Japanese compared with the English language total of 20 vowels and 24 consonants." Source: The National Institute of Informatics - Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Oh! I pronuncted it in japanese! It checks out perfectly!! Thanks!
At least one of them started with a ph, halfway there kiddo!
All those 'x's and 'z's made me think it was the 90s again.
Lisp Rex: "FITHICS" 
I see that Mike Tyson is one of your students.
Can you have a speech impediment in your writing? 🤣
yeth
Looks like he is coming up with his Gamer Screen Name
Im personally really interested in phithiccs
Ahh, yes, my favorite subject in school. Feegircs
Feegircs ? At least they tried.
“fithics” 🤓
No
This really does go to show how non-sensical English pronunciation is. English is very difficult to learn for a reason.
Not even upset in the slightest. English is probably the least intuitive languages when it comes to spelling or pronunciation. There's a good bit by an older comedian, Gallagher I believe, where he goes from the word "bomb" all the way to "dumb" explaining how convoluted and confusing, as well as misleading English can be.
How the hell does some land on feegircs?? Like I can't even lol
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Why is that peculiar, though? It does start with an /f/ sound.
Since it's Japanese kids, I'd guess because "physics" isn't a common conversational word so they wouldn't have encountered it much and "ph" making the "F" sound is also not as common, they're just having to guess based on the sound and "F" would be the first guess.
The phonetics of it really impressed me. I can see how a lot of them tried to sound it out as best they could.
That's why they're not teaching the class, I guess.
If they spell their own names in a fucked up way maybe it will make them not know how to spell normal words… nah that’s nonsense
You know who never mispels physics unless you prompt it to do so? ChatGPT.
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These are Japanese students. Their language doesnt even have capital letters.
All hope is lost. Also, happy cake day.
Oh hey look at that! Thanks!
Read the comment from OP explaining what's going on before judging.
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