What's the difference between pitch accent and intonation?

Learn Japanese pitch accent and pronunciation from my Patreon Series "Japanese Phonetics"

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[aajohnsoutube]

I am a beginner and the more I learn the more I emphasize “beginner”. Had a discussion on this last week with three generations of Japanese with 2 dialects and various levels of English competence. They said it’s context in most cases. It started with Hashi, we had a lot of laughs. It was fun….

[RulerQfEverything]

Hearing Dogen speak english after like 50 videos is very surreal

[TrainfanJanathan]

Good to know I've been pronouncing 日本語wrong for about a decade...

[angelalikesthings]

I really enjoy the Pitch accents lessons because they are extremely easy and accessible when you have a good knowledge of the language. Hope more people get interested and join in.

[scobeymeister]

It helps me to think of it like a music piece you're learning to perform. The hard part is learning the notes for the first time. You're not gonna give an expressive performance if you're worried about messing up the basics of the piece. Only when you have it fully learned and you have it in muscle memory are you going to be able to practice the dynamics and other more expressive aspects like that.

[keiz_]

Really appreciate these Pitch accent lessons, thanks for making these and sharing them with us Dogen!

[thesyntaxtree]

This takes me back to my days studying phonetics, so it’s nice to see how it applies to Japanese in particular. Thanks for the info, Dogen!

[justicerainz]

Wow, what a great lesson! Thanks for making it available for free. The way you described the pitch accent and compared it to English syllable emphasis was a really clear and intuitive (for me) way to understand it. Thanks again!

[TeamWnJ]

Tried to explain this to someone a few weeks ago, now I can just send this video instead! Thanks Dogen!

[gregorious]

Thought I'd be having a nosebleed a few minutes into this nuanced explanation. But suddenly it's all very clear. This Dogen chap really is 上手！

[OCTAMAN]

I mean I’ve reached the point where I managed to say

“ないです日本言葉”
All by myself, no google translate!

Which yes I know is the shittiest, most foreigner sounding sentence ever. But keep in mind I started learning like a month ago! I’m impressed I even remembered the word for “word”. We’re getting there boys

[skrubz]

I’ve never looked at these two in such depths. Very intuitive explanation.

[philmayf]

Ahh I've always wanted to know if the pitch accenting was so strict or if there were levels of subtlety to it. The spectrographs really drive home that the pitch accenting is always there, but the interplay between syllables is what develops the emotion and delivery of the word.

[tmyoshimura]

The teacher’s polite Japanese side comes out in this video. How nice! 🇯🇵 🙂

[randxalthor]

Thanks so much for posting this! This is the next video I'm about to watch in the Patreon series and I'm really looking forward to the additional context it will provide.

I feel like the beginning physics student who only knows how things work without friction and in a vacuum, and this lesson is where I start learning how the real world works.

[etherdog]

This is a really valuable lesson, Dogen! Thanks for sharing your insights as we appreciate it!

[erices]

Thanks for this. I wonder if I’ve been away from study long enough to have had my old habits broken.

I also worry my ears are broken. I hope this is a skill that practice improves.

[KramRemin]

It would make a fun graphic to compare:
A) basic pitch accent versus the vocal riffs people do on it.
B) basic ("bones!") kanji structure, versus the expressive riffs people do on it.

[agustinn]

as an English TTC student reviewing intonation practices, this is just what I needed

[J-W_Grimbeek]

This reminds me of learning Japanese on Duolingo, and how Lily (the purple haired character) has such a deadpan tone that it's hard to derive the base pitch accent from words sometimes. Thank goodness for the dictionary I use having the binary graphics