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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5383 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 65 of 407 30 December 2010 at 3:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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Tangorin.com is an online dictionary that allows you to save searches and output them as decks.
I appreciate the offer for the deck, but I think I just had a better idea. I'm going to take a simple jouyou deck and add to it, including -- an important part for me -- pitch accent of all example words. EDIT: Ok, I gave this a try. So far, I took a plain jouyou deck (I think it's only got 1945 cards, but that's a pretty good start anyway), and for each deck, I added a link to a page that shows stroke order (http://tangorin.com/kanji/公) and another that shows pitch (http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF- 8&p=%E3%81%BC%E3%81%8F&dtype=0&dname=0ss&stype=0&pagenum=1&i ndex=118010700000). The first link also leads to compounds, but without pitch. Not sure what my next step will be, but it's a start. Edited by Arekkusu on 30 December 2010 at 4:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5383 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 66 of 407 03 January 2011 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Been spending the last few days reading Kodansha's Learner's Dictionary, organizing and learning Anki
decks, and reading books. As I encounter new words, I look them up in Tangorin.com, where they are inserted into a vocab list, later used to generate anki decks. Met my language partner. Probably the time I've spoken with the most ease yet. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5383 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 67 of 407 31 January 2011 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Japanese Pitch
Met my language partner this weekend; hadn't met her in 3 weeks. Clearly the best meeting thus far in terms of pronunciation for me. Even my partner remarked a noticeable difference lately. When I say pronunciation, I'm specifically refering to pitch, since Japanese sounds per se never really posed a problem. I'm now able to produce or read entire sentences with accurate pitch. (Not all the time, of course, but getting there.) When I addressed the issue of pitch on this and other forums, almost all posters claimed that pitch wasn't important, or that you should just pick it up by listening to native speakers. I must say that I am increasingly convinced they were wrong. I used to think so by instinct; now I'm experiencing it first hand. There is no way I would have made such quick progress with pitch had I not been increasingly intimate with the system as a whole. I know because when I didn't understand the system, I wasn't making any progress. There is also no way I could have understood (and slowly internalized) this intricate system just by listening. There's still lots of work to be done, but I feel very motivated by the recent improvements. Moreover, when testing my recollection of pitch on individual words (especially verbs), I find that my instinct is increasingly accurate. I've been relearning the pitch of most common verbs. Verbs tend to occupy a pretty large part of all sentences, compared to nouns that often only take one or two syllables. *** Two things that I realized at this meeting and which particularly struck me: 1) the morpheme -jin added after place names is a -2 morpheme: niHONJIn, kaNADAJIn, aMERIKAJIn, doITSUJIn, etc. On the other hand, -go is a 0 morpheme. 2) -reru, -rareru, -seru, -saseru endings are all -2/0, meaning that they will have a downfall on the E before -ru when the verb has pitch, or will have no effect on verbs without pitch: MIru>miSEru and YOmu>yoMEru, but suru>saseru (realized suRU and saSERU). However, if -te is added, its pitch pattern prevails (eg. MIsete). Edited by Arekkusu on 01 February 2011 at 4:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5984 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 68 of 407 31 January 2011 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think that pitch is often claimed to not be important in the sense that you can be understood perfectly well without worrying about it, so if your main objective is simply to get by in Japanese it is probably better to spend more energy concentrating on other aspects of the language. However, without paying attention to pitch, your pronunciation will always be a bit strange or unnatural. I also think that the intonation of Japanese is one of the distinguishing features that makes it so beautiful, at least for me, to listen to.
However, so far I have been totally useless at studying pitch accent myself. I had an exchange partner last year who was very good at correcting problems with intonation but unfortunately it became too difficult to arrange practice sessions due to coordinating our other commitments around the time zones. On the plus side, I am reasonably good at imitating with correct intonation, but I haven't really figured out what the system is as such in order to make a conscious effort to internalise it. My speaking is pretty weak anyway so I still have rather a lot to think about when I am communicating in Japanese! What deliberate steps have you taken in order to work on your pitch accent? Is there any good explanatory material relating to the system that you can recommend? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5383 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 69 of 407 31 January 2011 at 9:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
I can recommend this and this site. However, a large part of what I know I learned from asking very patient native speakers to repeat various forms until I could figure out the underlying pattern myself. As for deliberate steps, I try to look up words whenever I have doubts about the pitch, particularly the most common verbs. I then take this information and try to predict how the entire sentence will go. When I'm fairly certain, I repeat it every now and then in an effort to form correct habits. I try not to let doubts remain doubts and look things up whenever I get the chance. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5383 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 70 of 407 09 February 2011 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've been rather lazy lately. However, I have certainly not lost my focus. I try to think in Japanese everyday. I take note of words I don't know and look them up. I continue to watch dramas, maybe every second day, and I'm still reading 日本人の知らない日本語. The drama was fun.
I also found a list of the 15,000 most common Japanese words (no doubt from newspapers) in order of frequency, and I delete words I know as I come across them. I haven't yet read the entire list, or even a quarter of it, but I've managed to delete over 2000 words so far. I was surprised that I knew that much. After all, these words are all out of context. In the midst of discouraging moments, I'll take all the encouragement I can find. Just bought another electronic dictionary. I had already bought the XD-GP9700 from Casio about 2 years ago, but I decided to go for the new XD-B7200 (French-English-Japanese) in large part because I wanted the NHK accent dictionary that the newer models include, and was looking forward to the French dictionaries. A friend's friend will be bringing it when she visits in 2 weeks. If anyone is interested in the older model... Edited by Arekkusu on 09 February 2011 at 10:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| librarian Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5072 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 71 of 407 09 February 2011 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
Where did you find this list? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5383 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 72 of 407 09 February 2011 at 9:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
Here you go! http://www.manythings.org/japanese/words/leeds/ 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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