Quote Originally Posted by miu
I had a Japanese friend who said that he used to think all foreigners speak Japanese with an American accent.
Yes, among Westerners it's mostly native-speakers of Germanic languages, and especially English, that have problems with the Japanese pronuciation. All Latin languages, Finnish, Greek, etc speakers have all the Japanese sounds in their language (except the "h" for Latins, but that they can replace by a soft "f").