Why would Russian хорошо [xoroʂo] be borrowed as ハラショー?


The two first /o/s are borrowed as /a/ in Japanese. I don't understand why the
Russian /o/ vowel sounds like /a/ to Japanese speakers instead of /o/ which is
a phoneme in Japanese.




Because хорошо is pronounced just like ハラショ.

[http://ja.forvo.com/word/хорошо/](http://ja.forvo.com/word/%D1%85%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BE/)

