Japanese Pitch Accent : What is Pitch Accent?

This is advanced pronunciation lesson.
At 3:44, I need to add やand か and ね and よ as１Hiragana Particle.
I might forget other 1 Hiragana particles,If you found some,give me a comment.
の has the other rule.I have to explain it in later video.
I introduced もやし（moyashi/ beans sprout) as 尾高型（odaka gata /Tail High Style)
Actually it has 2 accent patterns. もやしあalso can be pronounced by 平板型（heiban gata/Flat Style). There are many words which has both 平板型(Flat Style) and 尾高型(Tail High Style). Japanese usually don't care about the difference of 平板型 and 尾高型,
So I recommend studying Head High Style word 1st.

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I would enjoy listening to a rap version of your teaching. Your annunciation and tones would make a delightful mix of goodness

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[@LeeRichardson808]

I loved learning about the pitch accent! It’s a big feature of the way Japanese sounds but I never heard it explained. Thank you!

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[@kiti7547]

A new subscriber here and I wanted to thank you so much for the link to the online pitch accent 辞書, because I am always forgetting how pitches go for simple words. Today I found your video series while trying to find how to pronounce かみなり. Thanks to the dictionary, I know how to say it properly! I am very grateful to you, thank you!

[@iii-zs3dz]

Thank you so much! It kind of reminds me of how in English we stress syllables to make them sound “right” and sometimes even change meaning, and that’s kind of what Japanese does but by making the syllables higher or lower :) Thank you again! It makes much more sense now!

[@damude1941]

Thank you so much! Great video! And making pitched mm-mm-mm-mm version of the words to heard clearly only the pattern is a wonderfull help, I love that!

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thank you so much for this video!!

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this video is so good that I already sound very better

[@SeizeJapanese]

Sounds good !

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ありがとうございます！　先生おかげでこの話題もっと知りました

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Excellent job!

[@Rairosu]

When I am learning Pitch accent its like learning to speak for the first time heheh Because that is what it sounds like. My Native Tongue is Thai. Second Language is English and now Japanese is gonna be my third.

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Thank you so much Ms A Soma! 🙏 Japanese Pitch accent has been really difficult for me, but you helped me understand the logic behind. 😄 Your channel is amazing I just subscribed! 😊

[@SeizeJapanese]

My pleasure 😊 Good Luck with your study.

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[@cre8iveone699]

If you don't have perfect pitch you will still be understood by the context. So keep learning structure first, pitch will come naturally later just listen to native speakers.

[@SeizeJapanese]

That's right.

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この動画はすごいですね。I'm glad I found this video series. Finding out about the Japanese pitch accent blew my mind.

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よかったです❗Good Luck with your study!

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1:18 so basically it would sound like a little royal child in a kabuki play haha

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Thank you!! Great lesson. : )

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[@EvgenyUskov]

Japanese may think that Japanese language has no stress or "konnichiha" is pronounced in a flat way, but when for speakers languages it is OBVIOUS that it is neither "konNIchiwa" nor "konniCHI" nor "konnichiWA" but "KONnichiwa". "pitch" is just a marketing tool.

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OJAD is at: www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ojad/eng/pages/home

[@CrimsonKnightmare1]

This is trully the most diffucult part of japanese. And ん！

[@SeizeJapanese]

Don't worry about too much for Pitch Accent. As I said, this is not " must-do” rule. "ん”or "tiny っ ”is highly important for non native speakers. 😊 However, many students want to speak " perfectly like native! " So I'm making these series of videos. IF you don't know anything about " Pitch Accent",It's OK. When you keep each Hiragana separately and clearly, your Japanese would be understandable.

[@CrimsonKnightmare1]

@Casual Viewer what would you consider to be the most difficult aspects of japanese?

[@rexnemo]

I have found over the years that tones in English have been dictated by fashion . Groups of people learn to speak in tones that I cannot replicate . For example during the seventies and eighties people who were linked to having long hair would have a strange way of talking . You can see it from Neil in the comedy The Young Ones . Now there is a way of talking where the sentences end on a high tone , I cannot talk like this either . And there is a new tonal fashion where people drop the tone of words to an almost growl , apparently this is very bad for the vocal chords . I've always associated tones in English with emotional content and not meanings of words . Isn't it interesting how languages have developed ?

[@strongindependentblackwoma1887]

Pitch Accent depends of the region too....and according to a book about japanese grammar, young people are modifying some of them lol.

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you should make an online school with cheap subcription.. this is so good ..

[@SeizeJapanese]

Thank you, I will think about it.

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変わった人格が好き。本当に面白くておかしいです。そのチャンネルを見つけて嬉しくなりました。ありがとうござました！すみません、まだ日本語の文法を使うのが下手ですね。

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わぁ〜　初めて Ms A Soma のチャネルの動画を見ました！私の日本語の発音はおかしいと思うので、正しく話せたいです。この動画はすごく面白くて、内容もとても助かりました。良いコンテントを作ってくれてありがとうございます。では、他の動画も見ます　^_^

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お役にたてて嬉しいです〜😊👍

[@jeranuspeedruns]

When I saw the thumbnail about みかん(mikan(japanese orange)), I though "what if the word オレンジ(orenji) didn't exist?" Considering how the word orange as a colour is the same as the fruit in english perhaps japanese could do the same. What about みかん色(mikan iro(orange colour))

[@josef3952]

Hello, I always enjoy your videos and how well detailed they are. I am a professor of linguistics, and I have a quick question regarding the pitch accent of すし. I saw on one web channel that the pitch accent given for すし　was HiLo (atamadaka). I learned it as an odaka word( LoHi with the following particle dropping). When the honorific particle お is placed before it, I learned the pitch accent as LoHiLo おすし. The Japanese pitch accent dictionary has the same as well. So my question is whether a change is occurring with すし having a HiLo pattern, OR is this because it is always HiLo when the honorific お precedes it? ...just wondering This calls to mind ちち　"my own father" which I learned as an odaka word (LoHi with the following particle dropping) that can also be read as an atamadaka word HiLo. I look forward to your thoughts on this. Thank you.

[@SeizeJapanese]

You are perfectly right. Saying すし and ちち as HL was kind of dialects especially in Kansai area. They were not the average Japanese. But nowadays it is accepted good in dictionary. Professional narrators who are learned by traditional accent never use them. But ordinary people can use them.

[@josef3952]

@@SeizeJapanese Once again, thank you for the explanation. That helps a lot and confirms my take on some common words that now display alternative and acceptable pitch accents for ordinary people.

[@hrashidi100]

have you read Waseda Daigaku Professor Toda Takako's research on pitch accents? she also recommends the OJAD :)

[@SeizeJapanese]

No I didn't. My resource of Pitch Accent is from Japanese Actors textbooks. BTW　I lived in Waseda machi for a long time, Waseda is my former university.懐かしいですね。

[@hrashidi100]

@kepala kentang im sorry, i dont know how to find it anymore. it is in Japanese.

[@Shinjuku_Samurai]

More on pitch accents by cute Mochina sensei: @

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What is Mochina?

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Kris Aquino Japanese version.

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How do you know which words have pitch accents

[@SeizeJapanese]

As I said in this video, every Japanese word has its own Pitch Accent.

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This is a great video and the first time I'm hearing of OJAD; thanks so much!!