| [h3]Other Pitch Accent Resources[/h3]
If you’re a... | Submit new or vote |
| The first few episodes are viewable for free on YouTube:
Later on in the series, Dogen also goes ... | Submit new or vote |
| [h3]Getting Started with Pitch Accent[/h3]
At the... | Submit new or vote |
| [h2]How to Study Pitch Accent[/h2]
Studying pitch... | Submit new or vote |
| These Japanese learners then go on to educate the next generation of learners, proliferating the ide... | Submit new or vote |
| The other side of the equation is that Japanese people are generally exceeding polite. Even if your ... | Submit new or vote |
| Like I explained above, until I started actively studying pitch accent, I was completely oblivious t... | Submit new or vote |
| [h3]How the Misconceptions Are Perpetuated[/h3]
O... | Submit new or vote |
| Looking around at other high-level foreign speakers of Japanese, it’s clear I wasn’t the only one wh... | Submit new or vote |
| Studying pitch accent caused me to naturally pay more attention to pitch while listening to Japanese... | Submit new or vote |
| Even after reaching a relatively high level of Japanese fluency, I was still so oblivious to pitch a... | Submit new or vote |
| After looking into things more deeply, I eventually realized that what was actually happening was th... | Submit new or vote |
| Around that time, I asked some Japanese friends if there was anything that sounded “off” about my Ja... | Submit new or vote |
| After around 4 years of intensive Japanese study, I had reached a point where I was quite fluent in ... | Submit new or vote |
| [h3]My Personal Experience with Pitch Accent[/h3]
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| The problem with this idea is that it ignores the possibility of second language acquisition being f... | Submit new or vote |
| The main argument in support of this idea is that native Japanese speakers are never taught about pi... | Submit new or vote |
| [h2]Can’t I Just Pick Up Pitch Accent Naturally? [/h2] | Submit new or vote |
| On the other hand, the pitch accent mistakes learners tend to make are generally chaotic and inconsi... | Submit new or vote |
| Although it’s true that there are different pitch accent systems across Japan, each of these systems... | Submit new or vote |
| That said, it doesn’t make sense to use this as a defense for speaking Japanese with foreign-soundin... | Submit new or vote |
| [h3]Argument Two: Different Dialects Have Different Pitch Accent | Submit new or vote |
| Imagine listening to someone speak English with foreign-sounding stress accent. [n... | Submit new or vote |
| That said, just because native speakers will understand you, that doesn’t mean they’ll find your Jap... | Submit new or vote |
| [h3]Argument One: Natives Will Still Understand You[/h3]<... | Submit new or vote |
| [h2]Is Japanese Pitch Accent Important? [/h2]
My ... | Submit new or vote |
| On the other hand, both pitch accent and stress accent do determine what words are actually being co... | Submit new or vote |
| Although intonation and pitch accent are similar in that they both play out within the domain of cha... | Submit new or vote |
| [h3]Pitch Accent vs. Intonation[/h3]
Intonation i... | Submit new or vote |
| Pitch accent and tones are similar in that they both deal with how rises and falls in pitch affect t... | Submit new or vote |
