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Accent in Japanese

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nandemoii
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Accent in Japanese

Postby nandemoii » June 21st, 2007 7:21 am

Hear the defference:

a sa morning hemp

a me candy rain

a ka red dirt

etc.


http://sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/sp/lesson/j ... centl.html

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Postby Javizy » October 17th, 2007 1:18 pm

This looks quite useful. Does anyone know of any more resources like this? Pitch accent is hard to pick up on, especially with words that have more than one pronunciation :?

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Postby Ulver_684 » November 2nd, 2007 2:42 pm

Javizy wrote:This looks quite useful. Does anyone know of any more resources like this? Pitch accent is hard to pick up on, especially with words that have more than one pronunciation :?


Javizy-san! :wink:

I support you on this one, anybody wants to help us out here! :suki:

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Postby danieru_s » November 3rd, 2007 1:28 am

I really like that some of the JapanesePod101 series focus on pitch. Are there "dictionary" resources that do the same? I've never seen a dictionary or online resource that does this. Does anyone know of one? Can I buy it on Amazon?

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Postby Bloodwolf » November 26th, 2007 9:20 am

That link really made my day... I always thought you have to decide by context whether ame means rain or candy... and so on..

Sadly that list is incomplete... there are still many words left out that have different meanings like kami and there seems to be a mistake with atari... the overview page states that atari as in "hit" starts high... but the trainer claims the opposite

I heard that there are pitch accent dictionaries in japanese... I think it would be very useful if japanesepod would provide some content like that... because there seem to be no other sources for people who are not that proficent in reading japanese *hint* *hint* :)

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Postby markystar » November 26th, 2007 9:54 am

we have some here at the office. NHK produces the most famous one (supposedly the official pitch accents are included in there).

the ones we have here at JPod are:
日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK)
日本語アクセント辞典 (新明解)

these are both written in japanese :D
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Postby markystar » November 26th, 2007 9:57 am

oh.... and one of naomi's specialties is pitch accent. so in the Nihongo Dojo she goes off on the accent thing.
i think her pdf's might show the intonation also (i could be wrong on that...)
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Postby Ulver_684 » November 28th, 2007 5:34 am

markystar wrote:we have some here at the office. NHK produces the most famous one (supposedly the official pitch accents are included in there).

the ones we have here at JPod are:
日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK)
日本語アクセント辞典 (新明解)

these are both written in japanese :D


Marky-san! :wink:

That's good to hear, I want to have that Native Japanese accent too! :D

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Postby untmdsprt » May 4th, 2009 4:09 am

markystar wrote:we have some here at the office. NHK produces the most famous one (supposedly the official pitch accents are included in there).

the ones we have here at JPod are:
日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK)
日本語アクセント辞典 (新明解)

these are both written in japanese :D


Thanks Marky! I swear my money either goes to buy new books or train fare here in Japan. :D

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