テープレコーダー

テープレコーダー · teepurekoodaa · JLPT N5 · noun

tape recorder

📼🎙️ テープ (teepu) = tape + レコーダー (rekoodaa) = recorder

A straight English loanword in katakana: tape recorder becomes tee-pu re-koo-daa. The long marks ー stretch the vowels where English has ay, or and er. Say the English slowly with Japanese vowels and you have it.

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