@MyOnlyFarph said in double vowels translation:
The most notorious instances I can think of come from the Rurouni Kenshin franchise. Some dubs pronounced Aoshi as "Ay-Oh-Shee" instead of "Ow-Shee". Same goes for Saori from Girls Und Panzer. It irks me a tiny bit how Sentai sometimes pronounced her name as "Sorry" or "Say-Or-Eee" instead of "Sow-Ree".
Aoshi = Ah-oh-shee (no double vowel, but best way to show proper pronunciation of the long e)
Saori = Sa-oh-ree (again with the double vowel being for pronunciation only)
Japanese doesn't really have an ow, like "Owe, I stubbed my toe". This sound is usually made by people that aren't pronouncing double vowels properly, either because they never learned how to enunciate the vowel sounds or (in some cases) aren't able to hear the distinction. Unlike in English language, where we tend to throw two letters together to make a different sound, the Japanese alphabet is more of a ordered set of syllables.
There are only three examples I can think of which the sound of a character changes, and only then in specific circumstances. は is read as ha unless it is being used to denote the subject of a sentence, and is then read as wa. へ is read as he unless being used as an interjection or a particle inferring a direction. In those instances it reads the same as a short e sound. A small つ will be read as the consonant sound of the character following it. In that way, けっこ will read as kekko when printed in romaji.
