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