Learn Japanese Pitch Accent Part1 HeibanVsOdaka

#JapanesePronunciation、#PitchAccent、#Heiban、#Odaka

How to pronounce Japanese words correctly!
I hope this lesson helps you to improve your Japanese pronunciation skills.

Part1:
1. What is the Japanese pitch accent?
2. Identifying the difference between pitch accent and intonation.
3. How to pronounce the two types of pitch accent 'Heiban' and 'Odaka'.
4. Identifying the difference between 'Heiban' and 'Odaka' accent.

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Correction：
at 7:10
"This is another big reason"

Part2: 'Atamadaka' and 'Nakadaka'.

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[gristen]

I've been studying Japanese for a few years now and I only heard about this for the first time a few days ago. No wonder why foreigners are always given away when they speak, I don't think most people are taught about pitch accent.

[lindakyo]

i think pitch accent should be taught and included as a basic theory in classes... if not it's going to be confusing

[chauchau]

this is by far the most clear explanation i've ever aeen

[NateWithWho]

This is why when foreigner sing in Japanese they lose the accent and sounds Japanese because the language tones are gone.

[ElfKazuya]

Excellent video on understanding Japanese pitch accent.

[Taggez]

I'm so glad my native language is Swedish. We also have a pitch accent

[caitub]

I took three years of formal education in Japanese with one of those years in Japan, and not once did we ever go over this. This helps put all the pieces together, thank you very much for uploading this! どうもありがとうございました！

[Louisvr]

Spanish is my first language and its similar to Japanese in sounds. But I tried to compare the Japanese pitch accent with the Spanish stress accent and they differ completely :( In Spanish we have the words "ame" /á.me/ and "amé" /a.mé/, we have to stress one syllable in a word. However, they dont sound exactly the same as Japanese "a↓me" or "a↑me".

[thalescarl]

How come nobody mentioned Dougen san videos here in this comment section? 日本語上手ですね。

[icebear]

present vs present

(pre-ZENT) vs (PRE-zent)

[ChibDibs]

Underrated video. Thank you so much. The other phonetic videos on Japanese ended up being more confusing the more I watched but this explanation really helped!

[SolarLingua]

It is interesting that I never knew that there was a pitch accent in Japanese. I just copied the "intonation" or the way of speaking of the natives. And I realized that I do this pitch accent automatically. Sometimes it is really good to not know something. :D

[theophonchana]

ここ (此処) (here, this place) vs. 個々/個個 (ここ) (individual, one by one)
橋 (はし) (bridge) vs. 箸 (はし) (chopsticks)
飴 (あめ) (candy) 🍬🍭 vs. 雨 (あめ) (rain) 🌂
花 (はな) (flower) 🌷 vs. 鼻 (はな) (nose) 👃

[felipechaves]

This video is a little over 1 year old, and I would just like to say THANK YOU. It is so hard to find good content in pitch accent for the japanese language... I remember how I naively thought japanese were flat for the first 3 years in my learning process... and took it for granted because my native language share 99% of japanese sounds, how wrong I was. Thanks for this!

[danjf]

I've read many people complain that no one teaches about Japanese pitch accents. Not even mentioned in any of my books or lessons (N4 level). I'm glad I found this to stop myself from creating bad pitch habits before they started. Thank you!

[cvcztwn]

恐らく方言で一番ばらつきが出るのがpitch

Even Japanese cannot perfectly guess the pitch accent on new words, so the best way is to listen carefully and imitate how native speakers pronounce.

[Owjdnskoakansbskk]

This should make perfect sense to anyone who speaks Chinese as well.

[andresleon]

The hardest part of pitch accent is having to memorize odaka words to differentiate them from heiban words... If there was a rule I'd be pleased

[layllachannel]

I'm so glad to be a Brazilian!!
Portuguese has a lot of accent rules, so it's a little easier to understand.
For example:

Vovó - vo→ vo↗ - grandma
Vovô - vo→ vo↙ - grandpa
Bebe - be↗ be↙ - (He/She) drink
Bebê - be↙ be↙ - baby

[irinaturgueniev]

After watching this lesson, I'm finding Portuguese pronunciation very similar to Japanese's. Maybe that's why I'm finding the rules of pitch accent for Nihongo strangely familiar to Portuguese pronunciation rules. Thank you for the excellent video! 💯👍