How All This Sounds
The short of it: Strange
The long of it...
R's are regular, old French R's. No little bits of L hanging around. L's depend on the speaker.
Long strings of vowels are sounded out one at a time. Double vowels are like short vowels only held longer. U's are only silent at the ends of words. [So ei = EhIh, oi = OhIh, and ai = AhIh. They're not diphthongs, but differentiated sounds.]
Terran S's are a cross between "ss" and "sh".
Long A's are pronounced "EhIh".
Ae's are pronounced like the vowel sound in English "air".
Tsu = tooshuu. Not "tush" T_T.
Ihs (the pronoun) = Ees
Ç = S' [abrupt S]. Are you confused yet?
Any accented vowels are sounded as double shorts by Japanese speakers... well, for the most part.
If in doubt for any other sounds, default to the language of its extraction.
