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| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7120 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 9 of 11 28 September 2009 at 3:24am | IP Logged |
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It never ceases to amaze me how the slightest difference in pronunciation (including pitch accents and lengthened or shortened vowels or consonants by mistake) can make what you're trying to say unintelligible to the Japanese, even when the context is obvious. Maybe that's why they struggle so much with English. Anyway, I think you should defeinitely take pitch accents seriously.
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| quendidil Diglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 6311 days ago 126 posts - 142 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: Japanese | Message 10 of 11 28 September 2009 at 3:50am | IP Logged |
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The NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 is designed solely to indicate the pitch accent for words in standard Japanese. An electronic version is available, of which copies can be found on certain file-sharing networks.
I think I once saw a pronunciation dictionary for Kyoto Japanese, which is more conservative than Tokyo Japanese in its preservation of pitch accent distinctions from Mediaeval Japanese. Some mediaeval dictionaries also indicate the accent. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7120 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 11 of 11 28 September 2009 at 7:45am | IP Logged |
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I spent my first few years in Japan in Tohoku, where the pitch accent isn't an issue. When I moved south, I had to start learning where to put it, and you know what it's like trying to break a habit once it's formed. I'm amazed more learning guides don't take it more seriously. It's like Indonesian and Malay textbooks that don't indicate the diffrerence between the e sounds. Why, oh why?
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