How do you say "soccer" in Japanese?

サッカー is romanised as sakkā. Say it roughly like "sahk-kah-ah" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.

サッカー is a neutral, everyday word that works in both casual and polite speech. The level of formality comes from the sentence structure around it, not from the word itself.

サッカー is written using katakana. Sakkā is katakana from English soccer.

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