アメリカ
アメリカ · amerika · JLPT N4 · noun
united states
🗽🦅 amerika = America, respelled in katakana: a-me-ri-ka
A loanword, so it is written in katakana and sounds almost identical to English. Japanese has no separate L sound, and every syllable is consonant + vowel, giving four even beats: a-me-ri-ka. The c becomes k because katakana spells by sound.