下手な

へたな
unskillful

Reading

Readingへたな
Kanji下手

Meanings

  1. unskillful

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

下手な例え話はよけいに混乱するだけだ
へたなたとえはなしはよけいにこんらんするだけだPoor examples just add to the confusion.
下手なパロディがあると萎えて見る気なくす
へたなぱろでぃがあるとなえてみるきなくすBad parody makes me lose interest in watching.
時間の使い方が下手なのを直したい
じかんのつかいかたがへたなのをなおしたいI want to fix my poor time management.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0