Saianara!

I think it's SA-YO-NA-RA, if you mean "goodbye" in Japanese -- I thought this thread was about a new Bollywood actress.

I'm only posting this because you seem to be interested in the Eastern culture and I believe it would do more good than bad.

It's really simple.
The main kana sets are your simple vowels
A-I-U-E-O
followed by K
Ka-Ki-Ku-Ke-Ko
followed by S
Sa-Si(shi)-Su-Se-So

and so on. almost always, the kanas end with a vowel.

SAIANARA would have to be broken down to SA-I-A-NA-RA, which would not make sense to a Japanese speaking person when pronounced that way.

I'm being a hypocrite here though - the Japanese will change the pronunciation of foreign languages to better suit their tongue. They like to add vowels at the end of words --

as an example -

War of the Worlds

wo o-bu za waa-lu-do

I noticed asian language has a lot of mono-syllables.

I thought saianara is an english interpretation, I could be wrong though.

Like Ninja Turtles much? Jeez...

Actually I do have a Katana, Nunchuks, and a pair of Sai's. All I haven't got is a Bo and Splinter's walking stick :D
 

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