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Good evening Patrons! The twenty-eighth episode of Japanese Phonetics, ...
2017-10-01 17:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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Note: On October 29, 2021, I took down this lesson, and replaced it with the newer version of lesson 6.3, which I believe provides a much better framework for sentence-level pitch-accent than this older lesson on 'terracing'. ...
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Good evening Patrons! The twenty-fourth episode of Japanese Phonetics i...
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Note: There are a very small number of 中高 verbs that exhibit their accents on the third mora from the end of the word, rather than the second from the end of the word. This occurs when the second to last mora is a long vowel (ー) or the trailing vowel of a double vowel set, such as the え sounds in both 蘇る（よみ...
2017-07-07 16:28:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Patrons.
I had to take down the playlist because it was being shared to non-patrons; I hope you understand. All lessons, plus some other resources, are available on the index page.
2017-06-30 11:46:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this lesson I address several important rules for determining the pitch accent of common v...
2017-06-24 15:12:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Patrons.
I had to take down the playlist because it was being shared to non-patrons; I hope you understand. All lessons, plus some other resources, are available on the index page.
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In this lesson I address the pitch-accent patterns of atamadaka verbs.
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In this episode I address the various non-heiban conjugations of heiban verb...
2017-05-26 16:37:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Good evening Patrons! Just wanted to let everyone know that my article with Tofugu is live. I highly encourage everyone interested in both Japanese phonetics and creative writing in Japanese to give this a read; they did a great job of cl...
2017-05-24 11:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this episode I address the importance of heiban verbs. This is a big on...
2017-05-10 16:33:35 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this episode I talk about the pitch-accent patterns for the negative for...
2017-04-19 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis post has been replaced by the remade lesson 16, which can be found here:
Japanese Phonetics 16 (Pitch-accent in the negative forms of i-adjectives)
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In this episode I talk about the pitch-accent patterns for the 'sa' form of...
2017-03-24 15:29:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Note: 細か (こまか) is an exception to the 3-mora 〜か rule; this word can be pronounced as either 中高, as in koMAka, or 尾高, as in koMAKA (with the particle attaching low). Note that the correct pronunciation of this word used to be KOmaka, in alignment with the rule—the pitch seems to have changed over time....
2017-03-09 16:16:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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This episode is slightly different—today we are testing our knowledge o...
2017-01-24 15:17:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this episode I talk about the pitch-accent patterns for nouns in phrases. Specifically, ...
2017-01-09 11:10:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this episode I talk about the pitch-accent patterns for five mora nouns, as wel...
2016-12-26 17:38:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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Note: I don't suggest that beginners worry about this, but some of the words in...
2016-12-09 18:21:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this episode I share three excellent free resources to help you with your pitch accent studies. U...
2016-11-24 13:40:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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In this episode we take our first steps into Japanese pitch-accent stud...
2016-10-31 09:50:07 +0000 UTC View Post
IMPORTANT NOTE: In this episode I recommend people record themselves speaking Japanese. While I do believe this is an extremely effective way to notice and fix errors in one's speech, it's also something that I only recommend people do if they've been studying Japanese fairly intensely for a minimum of six months, if not cl...
2016-10-15 11:23:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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The third episode of 'Japanese Phonetics'. In this episode I talk...
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The second episode of Japanese Phonetics! ...
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