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I want to humbly thank you for making these videos as well as the walking ones. I've learned more watching your videos than from the applications I've tried learning from. ありがとうございます!
I think I got it that within each word, there is a pitch that governs the up and down of that word while in a whole sentence that there is also an intonation that governs the flow, i.e. the up and down, of that sentence. So, in order to speak a sentence more natrually, need to pay attention to the pitch and intonation both when speaking to impress your audience, right?
I think this is what sounds robotic about Dogen's Japanese. I could never put my finger on it before. He speaks abnormally flat and over emphasizes his pitch accent.
Hmm in my opinion, it’s more that Dogen speaks with an accent that I have heard other English speakers have. It’s like the closest they can get to minimizing their own accent but it’s just still there... It’s an accent I haven’t heard Japanese people have. It’s not about the pitch accent but about the way they produce the sounds themselves. Kind of how a Japanese person can speak very clear English with excellent pronunciation yet you can somehow tell they’re Japanese even if their pronunciation is “near” flawless. I have a friend from Kyushu who was a French teacher at a University but he’s 100% Japanese. I would say his French was “perfect”. I couldn’t really fault him for his pronunciation (I speak French) but he just spoke with a Japanese accent.. Hard to explain.. I think a good example would be the Dutch who tend to speak fluent English but have a Dutchness to it. Well, anyway, I noticed Dogen has that little “accent”. Mastering pitch accent doesn’t make one sound Japanese, just like my friend who teaches French and is fully fluent in it doesn’t sound “French”… does it matter? I don’t really think so. It’s extremely difficult to get rid of the influences of one’s native language. Some people are able to, some to a lesser extent, and some not at all, but in the end they can still speak their target language fluently and in a way that any native speaker can clearly understand. That’s what matters IMO
Thank you for making this video. May you please read this longish question I have? I would deeply appreciate it 🙏 Is it possible for the pitch, not intonation, change within a sentence? I'm asking because I've been using some Japanese TTS readers (such as OJAD) and I noticed some words changing their pitchs, but I'm not sure if that's a software flaw or a phonetical phenomena indeed. For instance, I'm currently playing ロマサガ2 and it came up with this attack 「体力吸収」; I looked up the pattern for each word individualy (the former 頭高型, the later 平板型), but in OJAD it was represented completely different, as if it was 中高型 both words together. I made a little testing on Google Translate TSS later and it was pronounced as expected previously (頭高型, then 平板型). In brief, which one is right? Does this change actually happen? Thank you if you read until this point!
Hi, that's a good question! when a word and another word are combined, their pitch can be changed. There's a rule that pitch drops only once in a word, and compound words are considered to be one word, so the pitch changes. This part might help you to see that king of pitch change. ruclips.net/video/00KyCSfT_tQ/видео.html But, in this case, 体力吸収, is not a compound word. When I see this word, I read 頭高 then 平板. I tried my son, and he read as the same as I did. OJAD took 体力吸収 as a compound word. It usually works pretty well though
I just discovered your channel and I really love all your videos about pitch accent and intonation. I have started taking japanese class this year but teachers don't seem to pay much attention to teaching us pitch accent and intonation. Do you have any ressources recommandation on how I can seriously study pitch accent and intonation while taking japanese class ? Please keep up the good work !
I think you needed to substitute "Japanese" for "English" in your description, lol, although I guess that's not that important.. Your monologue seemed pretty level--not too much of a change in pitch as you kept speaking.. I still have to commend you for your grocery store video, and how thorough it was..
Hi, I added the English translation to my Japanese. As you know, I said nothing important or interesting though...(I should have said something meaningful things) And thank you for the compliment for the previous video. I guess that one is the most popular among the three walk(drive) and talk videos^^
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally As an absolut beginner I am very happy that I found your excellent videos on intonation. At 4:27 it is written "studying english" but I've verified the Kanji and the hiragana associated. IMHO it should be "studying japanese".
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I want to humbly thank you for making these videos as well as the walking ones. I've learned more watching your videos than from the applications I've tried learning from.
ありがとうございます!
Thank you so much!
I’ll make more videos, so please stay tuned😊
ふみ先生、こんにちは。
詳細にご説明いただきありがとうございました。そして、とてもわかりやすいです。日本語のイントネーションについての説明を聞いたのは初めてですが、非常に重要だと思います。先生の動画を見ることを楽しんでいます☺️お疲れ様でした🙏
スティーブンさん、こんにちは！ わかりやすいとのこと、よかったです。イントネーションも大事ですもんね。コメント、ありがとうございました＾＾
Thank you very much. These intonation videos are very helpful!
This channel is underrated, i hope more people would watch all your videos, thanks sensei for teaching japanese language in a japanese way..
Thank you!! in a Japanese way 😂 Please recommend this channel to your Japanese learning community when you have chance! 🙏
今、だいじょうぶ！ありがとうございます！すごい先生！ I’m discovering your work ! You’re wonderful. Thanks a lot. 🤩👏
when you speak without the "he" intonation it reminds me of the way audio announcements sound in japan sometimes, very clear and robotic
This is very useful for me to know! Thank you for such a good video!
ふみ先生、動画本当にありがとうございました。You're an amazing teacher! Love to learn all these important things :)
I’m glad you liked it✨😊
おっしゃる通りです、その考えには納得します。
Lovely, lovely, explanations and video. Thank you so much!
Thank you 😊
ありがとあなた。
Thank you 😊 💓 ☺ so much...Please add more subtitles
You mean English subtitles ??
Great video, great teacher.
Thank you 😊✨
I think I got it that within each word, there is a pitch that governs the up and down of that word while in a whole sentence that there is also an intonation that governs the flow, i.e. the up and down, of that sentence. So, in order to speak a sentence more natrually, need to pay attention to the pitch and intonation both when speaking to impress your audience, right?
I think this is what sounds robotic about Dogen's Japanese. I could never put my finger on it before. He speaks abnormally flat and over emphasizes his pitch accent.
I see ... 🤔
Hmm in my opinion, it’s more that Dogen speaks with an accent that I have heard other English speakers have. It’s like the closest they can get to minimizing their own accent but it’s just still there... It’s an accent I haven’t heard Japanese people have. It’s not about the pitch accent but about the way they produce the sounds themselves. Kind of how a Japanese person can speak very clear English with excellent pronunciation yet you can somehow tell they’re Japanese even if their pronunciation is “near” flawless. I have a friend from Kyushu who was a French teacher at a University but he’s 100% Japanese. I would say his French was “perfect”. I couldn’t really fault him for his pronunciation (I speak French) but he just spoke with a Japanese accent.. Hard to explain.. I think a good example would be the Dutch who tend to speak fluent English but have a Dutchness to it.
Well, anyway, I noticed Dogen has that little “accent”. Mastering pitch accent doesn’t make one sound Japanese, just like my friend who teaches French and is fully fluent in it doesn’t sound “French”… does it matter? I don’t really think so. It’s extremely difficult to get rid of the influences of one’s native language. Some people are able to, some to a lesser extent, and some not at all, but in the end they can still speak their target language fluently and in a way that any native speaker can clearly understand. That’s what matters IMO
Thank you for making this video. May you please read this longish question I have? I would deeply appreciate it 🙏
Is it possible for the pitch, not intonation, change within a sentence? I'm asking because I've been using some Japanese TTS readers (such as OJAD) and I noticed some words changing their pitchs, but I'm not sure if that's a software flaw or a phonetical phenomena indeed.
For instance, I'm currently playing ロマサガ2 and it came up with this attack 「体力吸収」; I looked up the pattern for each word individualy (the former 頭高型, the later 平板型), but in OJAD it was represented completely different, as if it was 中高型 both words together. I made a little testing on Google Translate TSS later and it was pronounced as expected previously (頭高型, then 平板型).
In brief, which one is right? Does this change actually happen?
Thank you if you read until this point!
Hi, that's a good question!
when a word and another word are combined, their pitch can be changed. There's a rule that pitch drops only once in a word, and compound words are considered to be one word, so the pitch changes.
This part might help you to see that king of pitch change.
ruclips.net/video/00KyCSfT_tQ/видео.html
But, in this case, 体力吸収, is not a compound word. When I see this word, I read 頭高 then 平板. I tried my son, and he read as the same as I did.
OJAD took 体力吸収 as a compound word. It usually works pretty well though
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Thank you so much!
Genial!
I just discovered your channel and I really love all your videos about pitch accent and intonation. I have started taking japanese class this year but teachers don't seem to pay much attention to teaching us pitch accent and intonation. Do you have any ressources recommandation on how I can seriously study pitch accent and intonation while taking japanese class ?
Please keep up the good work !
How about Dogen's channel?
ruclips.net/user/Dogen
He's so famous that you probably know him already though...😅
ビデオをありがとうございます。
こちらこそ、いつもコメント、ありがとうございます＾＾
I wanted to cry when you started talking in japanese 😭 lol (本当にありがとうございます先生)
❤ ❤❤not much else to say
I think you needed to substitute "Japanese" for "English" in your description, lol, although I guess that's not that important..
Your monologue seemed pretty level--not too much of a change in pitch as you kept speaking..
I still have to commend you for your grocery store video, and how thorough it was..
Hi, I added the English translation to my Japanese. As you know, I said nothing important or interesting though...(I should have said something meaningful things)
And thank you for the compliment for the previous video. I guess that one is the most popular among the three walk(drive) and talk videos^^
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally As an absolut beginner I am very happy that I found your excellent videos on intonation. At 4:27 it is written "studying english" but I've verified the Kanji and the hiragana associated. IMHO it should be "studying japanese".