PITCH ACCENT, Kanji & Keigo Tips w/ a Japanese Sensei

[@sambonjuku]

日本語に関する疑問は絶えませんねー みなさん一緒にがんばりましょう！ I always enjoy reading comments for collab. videos,so please leave a bunch of comments here!

[@makeda6530]

Akkie-sensei, I got my Japanese accent the same way. I always listen to music so when I practice speaking my accent is lightyears ahead of my vocabulary. Though my "r" is better inside words than at the beginning. ( ´•̥ ̫ •̥` )♡

[@Jinxed11]

心の絵は楽しかったです。

[@kemushichan]

📣ENGLISH SUBTITLES ARE FIXED!!! Thank you everyone for your help!

[@davidotto7519]

Girl, your video editing is a life goal!

[@kemushichan]

Or a life's work 😂😂❤️. Can you tell its possibly one of my favorite parts?

[@w1zard.]

Its my first time hearing her speaking in full Japanese. Oh my god! Im jealous!!!!

[@kemushichan]

Oh boy, I need to make more videos in Japanese then 😂

[@marloesoosterhoff7034]

I'm a linguistics major and I also have a phonetics class where we need to learn the techniques and be able to pronounce the major part of the IPA table (both vowels and consonants) so hearing you "nerd" out on all the technical stuff was really fun to listen to >< it now all makes a whole lot of sense

[@FelixGalvanArt]

Kemushi chan I believe this R is something that many of us native Spanish speakers have. To me, it’s been very helpful to have the Spanish pronunciation of that specific R variation for my my Japanese R :) It’s like the R in the word “cobrar” (to charge) . I find that the vowel sounds are all identical My Spanish vowels. I love all your videos.

[@FelixGalvanArt]

Persnikitty Perhaps that’s where the listening comes in. I think it hasn’t been very difficult to detect the varying R pronunciations. Perhaps a lifelong experience. However I learned both Spanish, and English simultaneously so it’s easy to see from that perspective how difficult it could be to pronounce. Mind you, I’m only pointing out this one nuance with the R. Vowels also are very similar, if not identical the Spanish.

[@FelixGalvanArt]

Persnikitty Yes, the intonation patterns are quite tricky to distinguish. I’m going back to Japan this Thursday for 10 days and I am curious to see how my listening comprehension has changed.

[@paineretlaw3344]

I love accents so i took the rolling R from the Scottish accent i like to do and kind of cut off the rolling bit. I am trying to find the time to practice my reading but i cant decide what books to get to build my vocabulary.

[@Kokomiii]

We use the same pronounciation for the R in the Norwegian language as well! Very helpful ~

[@KathyakaNina]

As a Latina I definitely agree! I still find that amazing & helpful on pronunciation for most Japanese words. With Spanish I still have some words & meanings that I got to brush back on because of the change of the vowel & constant order in some words like the number 4 (cuatro) in Spanish & room (cuarto)

[@speaknowjapanese5243]

8:14 Hiragana and Translation …やっぱり、こどものときからしゅくだいでいっぱいかいておぼえました。 …Yeah, as homework, I had to write tons every day. Thank you I love both of you guys. I also agree with this strategy as a Kanji learner. This the main reason I created my app Speak Now Japanese so that people can write Kanji anytime in the easiest way. I often study with my app on the train. I also created a feature to test your memory by writing a Kanji once you learn it with step by step guidance. I am just a single developer and also Japanese learner myself.

[@cndcpwll]

Akkie-Sensei is a dream and must be protected at all costs. Love your collab videos together!

[@Niso_Sopas]

Akkie: "You see, even Keigo is changing recently." Loretta: "TT nTT NNOOOOOOOO" I totally felt that in my soul. lol

[@gysoran]

Akkie-sensei's wa/ga video was the first time I actually understood the difference. Also I'm crying laughing at the illustration. Thank y'all for this video!

[@kemushichan]

Hahaha thank you! I really like doodling the goofy parts 😂

[@sheeps_]

Accent tips !!!! I’ve noticed my accent get better over the years and also be able to tell apart different regional accents

[@kemushichan]

Do you have a favorite 方言 yet?

[@angelest312]

While discussing regional accents in my linguistics course, we touched on how Americans tap their 't' or 'd' in some words like "city", "butter" and "ladder" and when transcribing it phonetically, I realised that it's the same as the Japanese 'r'! So, when I am trying to teach someone how to pronounce the Japanese 'r' I now tell them to adopt an American accent first and speak these words to understand the placement of it hahaha

[@BrianLamb-rocketmanblamb]

I just watched your collab with onomappu and I also signed up for a 発音（はつおん）course mid last year, which was quite foreign concept despite several classes over the years. But I guess it is an evolution of teaching style and methods. Not unlike Heisig changing the way Kanji might be studied etc... 明けましておめでとうございます

[@MrKoolykdat]

I have literally been watching for a little over a year now, and I am FINALLY studying abroad in japan! I’ve been here coming up for 2 months now and my Japanese is getting better everyday. I agree that, especially with the kanji, you just have to really dive in and learn those 音読み／訓読み readings and really practice writing them too, but it’s so refreshing and really exhilarating to be riding the train or hanging out at a ゲッセン and just be able to pick up more and more kanji every day! If anyone is down, I’m 100% on board with practicing every chance I get so、皆さん、一緒に頑張りましょう！

[@kemushichan]

You must be having the time of your life!!!

[@AmbiCahira]

Music and singing truly is a huge tool in pronounciation because every time you sing to a song you can tweak little by little until you can ghost the singer so well that your voice kind of disappears into the song. :) Learning to sing words you haven't learned to understand yet is very difficult but even if you mispronounce it wrong your brain will correct it over time as you improve. :) You don't have to be a good singer to practice with singing! The instant feedback of hearing both versions at the same time is such a great tool! And by learning to sing words you don't know yet you will quickly recognize it in your studies when you hear it next time and meaning can stick much faster. On top of that it trains the muscles in your tongue and throat to string new sounds together smoothly so singing is fantastic!

[@morganfaye93]

These videos are just so fun, cute, and informative!! I am happy that I understand 90% of them without any subtitles. Thanks for the visual cues and easy explanations. :) As always, I really appreciate a native speaker taking the time to give their perspective. Loretta, I have seen some of your older videos from several years ago when I was still in college studying Japanese and your improvement is inspiring!! Now I need to really brush up on my speaking. I have just started studying again. What recommendations do you have for speaking practice? Right now I am doing reading out loud and copying the CD from my textbook and also shadowing. Not in school right now so self-studying.

[@skeingamepodcast5993]

Something interesting a Japanese co-worker told me is that English speakers open their mouth too wide when they speak Japanese. So it effects the accent and pronunciation because we over emphasize sounds.

[@TaterTaliaTots]

Hmm that’s interesting I shall take this into consideration thank you!😊

[@christotaku]

You started singing Ue wo muite arukou.... so I have to stop this video to listen to that wonderful piece of music!!!

[@insider4163]

編集すご！なんとわかりやすい！

[@roxiquicksilver]

日本でバイトしている時、「ご苦労ちゃん」と言われたことがあります。😅

[@mistressofcheese]

You guys are such an amazing team and I'm glad to see you making a collab again! :D 💕 Also, your editing skills!!!

[@phazttraxx1980]

Me: No English subtitles? Challenge accepted 💪😏

[@kemushichan]

Theyre there! You have to click CC. Are they showing????

[@myraccoonkisses]

How weird, the English subtitles aren’t showing for me either

[@BearingChrist3]

KemushiChan ロレッタ there not showing only Japanese

[@kemushichan]

I could cry!!! Literally woke up early to finish them. Mk HOLD ON FAM!!!

[@ryannamecat]

@@kemushichan On Mobile there is only Japanese subs :

[@suoni-jo4xn]

Great video! I'm a native Japanese speaker. I agree with Akkie-sensei about "お疲れ様です.” 廊下で上司がロレッタさんに「お疲れ様です」と言ったら、ロレッタさんもその上司に「お疲れ様です」と返事したほうが良いです。たとえSteve Jobsが私の上司で、Steve Jobsと廊下ですれ違っても、私なら Steve Jobsに「お疲れ様です」と言います :) 優しい上司が会議でペットボトルを持ってきてくれたとき(13:52)は「ありがとうございます」が良いと思います。

[@puntoycoma9491]

I love this kind of videos, I learn a lot, and having an english speaker a side gives me more confidence, idk why xD

[@8994williams]

I'm just starting out with japanese, but just listening to it makes me happy. A beautiful language to hear 😄

[@icehotchilli]

Love the editing!!!thanks to your collab, I've found another good resource for Japanese learning. your videos always make my day :)

[@kemushichan]

Im glad you liked our ramble!

[@TinaSuarez09]

more videos like this please! love all your videos 💖 helps me a lot in studying Japanese

[@Unmei_Ka]

Knowing that Japanese people aren't looking at some phrases in the literal term makes things more difficult.

[@tzukishiro]

As a spanish speaker, the r was easy, but the ざじずぜぞ and ふ are the hard ones. The Z sounds too similar to the S and the fu is just too weird to be confident Also, it's really important to know that a good pronunciation isn't the same as an accent, you will probably never have a japanese accent, doesn't mean you're gonna mispronounce stuff

[@cuteypetz]

That "just one rolled R" for the Japanese R is really helpful! Most books I read (as a British English speaker) are like "We don't have this in English but Americans use a similar sound when they say 'butter' (on the 'tt' of it)" so I have to pretend to use an American accent first to approximate a Japanese accent 🙈 I also know IPA and the mouth positions you explained but it's hard to KNOW if you're doing it right. But I CAN actually do a rolled R so the rolled R thing is really helpful!! Thank you for the tip! 😁

[@kemushichan]

Omg, American English is such a journey haha. Buddderrr. Im so glad this helped and found the British English perspective interesting. Now im imagining you cringing at me saying "in English we have the same sound" haha.

[@PurplePaisleyPlanner]

Watching your video and love your channel. This was such fun to watch and I'm so ready for a vacation Japan.😀🍂

[@dal_luna]

I changed the subtitles from english to japanese at 2:52 and I got so confused when he started speaking in japanese

[@jemmabalot9539]

I WAS JUST RESEARCHING ABOUT THIS THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!! PITCH ACCENTSSSSSSSSS

[@kemushichan]

Moreeee RESEARCH. Any juicy tidbits to share?

[@sunshine1110]

That's a GREAT explanation of the technique for the Japanese R!! Thanks so much!! :D :D I understood the technique eventually from native speakers and learning about the L-R correlation, but this was a GREAT explanation of the actual technique! Thanks a lot!! :D :D

[@てきゃ10]

発音は難しいです(^^ゞ尊敬語や謙譲語は、日本人でも理解が難しいですね。私は、日本語を勉強して頂けるだけでも、嬉しいです(^^ゞ ありがとうございます。

[@aminaelkateb1147]

ahh! I love that song

[@paularominagimenez1496]

この動画で使っている日本語のレベルはどのレベルぐらいでしょうか。 字幕つけないで90％ぐらい分かりました。嬉しいです！

[@taiwanese_pineappl]

ケムシちゃんの疑問 よく分かりました！！ 私は日本人ですが ケムシちゃん派です！！ スティーブ・ジョブズ氏のような離れた感じの大上司とすれ違ったとして、向こうが「おぅ、お疲れ」と声をかけてくれたとしても「お疲れさまです」とは言えない😱です。 私も「こんにちは😊」とかで返すと思います。 あ、でもああいうすごく偉い方は大抵「おぅ、おはよう！」と挨拶して下さいますので、実際の所返事に困ったことはありません。 「お疲れさま」は同じ、もしくは似たような場所で働いている職員への挨拶のように思うのです。 なので「ハロー」の代わりに部下にもビルの掃除の方にも使います。 「ご苦労さま」は私は今40代ですが、まだ早いような気がしてめったに使いません。先生↑がおっしゃっていたように、部下や後輩が何か仕事をしてくれた後に「ご苦労さん」と声をかけるのはおかしくないと思いますが、何となく男性風？というか....女性だったらやっぱり「ありがとう、お疲れさま」と返すかな、と思います。 お金を払って仕事をしてもらう業者さん相手なら使う人も多いかと思いますが、先ほど書いたように、私の歳だとまだ貫禄が足りない気がして使いにくいです。「どうもありがとうございます」しか使いません。 場面や人間関係、年代や性別で言葉遣いも変わるので難しいですね。 ケムシちゃんは本当に日本語が堪能で、常日頃の努力が素晴らしいなといつも思います。これからも頑張ってください！

[@Pichuscute]

And suddenly I understand why I struggle to differentiate between d's and r's so much.

[@darrenroberts637]

I love ur channel and so proud of u .. I’m a mix Africa America guy and see some like being a great example living there.. I’ve visit Japan 3x though my church by them helping me .. One question.. What is this video you mostly speaking in Japanese?

[@kemushichan]

Thank you for watching! Usually AKKIE-Sensei and I only speak Japanese together, haha and it turns out people like it as listening practice!

[@darrenroberts637]

Sorry for all typos in my last paragraph.....Which video is the one u give study tips in while getting ur masters ?

[@kittynekocat]

Saying "ladder" in my British accent doesn't do the Japanese R tongue movement 😅

[@stevecriddle]

I was going to say the same thing.

[@Jessie_S]

Of course it wouldn't. As far as I know, that tap r that replaces the t and d sounds only occurs in American accents.

[@kevinscales]

The Welsh 'dd' is very similar to the Japanese 'r'. Not that that helps if you don't know Welsh lol

[@Jessie_S]

@@kevinscales But it helps when you're expanding your knowledge on phonological systems of languages

[@habibahassan2719]

Thank you for the fun video ❤️❤️❤️

[@Nijilove78]

There are techniques??? I learned back in middle school from a website (i think its dead now) that said the japanese r was a mix of d, r, and l. For some reason it made sense and I've been able to do it since day 1

[@rockandrolldude22]

I am still very new to Japanese and i use the app memerise to learn. What helps me remember kanji is looking at it and trying to think of it as a picture. Like the one for chopsticks i look and i think "The 2 lines are like chopsticks".

[@Georgie13]

I use to use memrise, it is good for vocab but poor for grammar. If you want to focus on grammar have a look at LingoDeer. They also have a vocab app (lingoPlus) but I don't think it is as strong.

[@rockandrolldude22]

@@Georgie13 I only use memerise I love it.

[@alvinds5479]

I stumbled upon your channel just when I am trying to learn Japanese again lol like for the 4th time now haha :D Enjoyed your videos so far :D :D :D

[@Kamkkko]

Wait, I’m early? This is nice ^^. You keep me from getting bored of Japanese, thanks Kemushi!

[@kemushichan]

Im glad to hear it! Anything noodling your noggin recently?

[@1polyron1]

THAT'S IT. I'm never looking at subtitles, Japanese or English, ever again. I've been crippled by looking at subtitles for so long now, and it shows. My hearing ability feels the same no matter what I do, so I end up having to look at subtitles. NO MORE.

[@kemushichan]

Before writing then off, you can actually use subtitles to replicate the top down/ bottom up method we mentioned! I don't know if you were ever in band, chorus orchestra, but think of it like this: ① SIGHT READ (or, listen in this case. Watch the media once with no subtitles. And see what you pick up. ② SUBTITLES ON. Now watch it and check what you heard so you know whats being said. ③ SUBTITLES OFF. Watch it again on a different day with no subtitles, and start listening for words you missed before now that you know whats being said. This is how I watched a lot of anime/drama when I first really started speaking and having the subtitles as your bottom up guide + the audio again to reinforce, it starts to click a lot faster.

[@1polyron1]

@@kemushichan Okay, I'll do it this way. At this point I'll do anything lol. I'll just have fun with it.

[@kemushichan]

@@1polyron1 eyoooo 🙌

[@1polyron1]

@@kemushichan Thanks

[@orphicprince8854]

This is such a helpful video!

[@MagicApple03]

First comment! Now maybe someone will see? I have been wondering this for years and studying Japanese. When Japanese people speak it seems they put a lot of emphasis or pause(?) on the particles. Is this normal, should I be doing this? Often I see this when thinking...Please help! Also, I've plateaued in my learning, I am stuck on grammar, should I continue? I don't know about using 2 verbs in 1 sentence! Ah help!

[@kemushichan]

Ooo! Interesting question? Is there a point were Akkie or I do this in the video?

[@spoilka666]

What would you like to know about using 2 verbs in 1 sentence? An example? There are few grammatical constructions for that. For example if you want to say what you did today there is ～たり きょうはあさごはんをたべたり、べんきょうしたり、ともだちとaあそんだりした。 Today I ate breakfast, studied, played with a friend. If you want to use 2 or more verbs to make a compound sentence you can use a lot of other grammar for example ですが for but, ながら while, なら if きょうはあさごはんをたべながらにほんごをべんきょうした Today I studied japanese while I ate breakfast. きょうはにほんごをべんきょうしなかったですがともだちとあそんだ I didn't study japanese today but I played with my friends. You should check grammar books and play with what you've learned, it's fun!

[@MagicApple03]

@@kemushichan Wow you saw this! No, but I've seen this A LOT when watching interviews done by Ask Japanese and a few other youtube videos. Do you notice this at all?

[@MagicApple03]

@@spoilka666 I think I understand it? TY

[@cuteypetz]

@@kemushichan e.g. at 1:28 I think? Slight pause and emphasis on は. Also 2:54 with に. I have definitely also noticed this and have always thought it was A Thing in Japanese.

[@AtsuyaShimokawa]

お疲れ様です。is sounds like a business style of how are you for me. No means.

[@pocketmarrow]

Shoot I'm too out of practice, need to pull out google translate later and get a proper read on the ra ri ru re ro bit. Those were always the Japanese sounds I struggled the most to mimic, particularly ru / ryu sounds. Often end up rolling my "R"s.

[@kemushichan]

There was a problem with the English subtitles, hold on please!

[@HaohmaruHL]

Is your native language English? I noticed the english speakers particularly struggle with "ryu" thing. They even had to change the pronunciation of Ryu's name in western versions of street fighter to reeyu because no one among americans could pronounce it right. Hell even Ninja ryukenden was renamed to Ninja Gaiden because of this..

[@pocketmarrow]

@@HaohmaruHL Guilty as charged! I'm a decent mimic so I do well when I'm around native speakers but this was one of the first pronunciation things to slip as I fell out of practice.

[@kemushichan]

When I very first encountered ra ri ru re ro I sounded like scooby doo. Hehe.

[@AndyLifeInVideo]

Dang, I'm really rusty with my Japanese! What's a good refresher (book, video, etc.) that won't make me feel like a complete noob?

[@Georgie13]

Where is the link for the pink book for pronunciation??? 7:13

[@eingryffindor5997]

Kanji are like my greatest fear

[@lunalui]

天麩羅ture? Is that the effect of living in Japan for too long?

[@heidiosborne6638]

meanwhile i can't even tell if someone is speaking japanese or korean :/

[@shedhamz]

Really need this 😍

[@dal_luna]

Question or idk. I've always known myself to be able to roll r's but from watching i realized not a lot of people can??? How is one unable to not do this? (I'm not trying to be mean im just curious)

[@kemushichan]

Most people I know in the US who can't don't use the tip of their tongue. Think of trying to put your mouth in the position to say " thhhhhh", and then try to roll the R from this spot. Its a gurgly mess 😁

[@cherrychan1998]

pls make a video about how to open a bank account as a foreign student and which bank would you reccomend to go pls ^^

[@dollyarora1885]

sooo i can say back otsukaresame to people..

[@MrEncode]

「お疲れ様」、「ご苦労様」は言葉どうりの意味じゃなくて「社交辞令」ﾀﾞﾖﾈｰ...。

[@haru9369]

i was taught in school not to say otsukaresamadesu to teachers after the class... i always get nervous using otsukaresama desu too, like is it polite and OK to say it to the obaasan who works in the dorm and cleans the kitchen and halls?

[@Jessie_S]

Wow! I was taught differently. We were taught it was fine and we would use it after class saying it to our teacher (who is Japanese btw) when we were leaving. We would usually just say otsukare

[@haru9369]

@@Jessie_S in our case teachers said it to students but taught us to say shitsurei shimasu when leaving classroom..

[@Jessie_S]

@@haru9369 I've learnt that you say osaki ni shitsureishimasu when you're leaving earlier than others. But because we're all leaving at the same time since class has ended we say otsukare. Really curious as to why we've been taught to use these phrases differently.

[@jordancalandre9474]

Any news of Boomer's JLPT results ?

[@derekzhou5365]

0:00 is this not safe for work lol

[@justinfufun5483]

Her Japanese is better than her English

[@voiceofshaun]

秘密のコメントはね。。。今日はここで八十度F です。

[@kemushichan]

あついいいい

[@voiceofshaun]

@@kemushichan そうですねー、でも来週は涼しくなりますから...OKです。

[@kemushichan]

@@voiceofshaun じゃ本当に花金ですねw

[@voiceofshaun]

@@kemushichan ですよねー 完璧だ

[@superchatoalien4905]

外国人はちっちゃい「っ」の発音ができてない人が多い気がする。昔からの不思議。