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Recent Japanese Phonetics Updates (Patreon)

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2020-04-27 22:24:29
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Good morning Patrons! I'm posting this video to explain three revisions / supplementary updates I've recently made to Japanese Phonetics, and to briefly talk about a video I plan on making in the relatively near future. The episodes I talk about in this video can be found at the below links:

Episode 29. Sentence level pitch-accent (dealing with emotions and intentions)
Episode 33. Introduction to devoicing
Episode 61. Exceptions to the の rule and common words with multiple pitch accent patterns

As always, if you have any questions or concerns feel free to leave a comment below.

Best from Beppu,

Dogen

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Recent Japanese Phonetics Updates

Explaining some recent updates I've made to Japanese Phonetics, as well as a video I plan on making in the relatively near future.

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Joe Griffiths

That's strange that you mention the きのう point. I was talking about this to my Japanese teacher recently because he pulled me up on it. He said that it sounded more natural to have きのう as heiban when on it's own and when used in sentences like the one you mentioned, but that it goes back to it's nakadaka pitch accent pattern when it's きのうは. No idea why this happens though haha! But still, very interesting stuff nevertheless!

greyface

is there a place somewhere that lists all of the words that have a different pitch accent when used as either an adverb or a noun? I would really like to study this, as I know for a fact that I haven't been applying this to words like 昨日 when I probably should be.

Dogen
>>35940855

Hi Joe, that is rather coincidental! Yes, I agree with that advice; it can sometimes be a bit difficult to determine exactly when something is being used as an adverb in Japanese (even for Japanese people), so I actually like this advice quite a lot. Cheers!

Dogen
>>35941790

Hi Arthur! I cover this a bit in the advanced pitch-accent sub-series in the numbers section (lesson 73), but beyond that, this isn't something I've covered at length in the past, and unfortunately I don't know any resources that collectively list all words that fall into this category. That said, in lesson 61 I also talk about several other words such as 人、上、下, etc. that often change pitch based on whether or not they are being modified. Sorry for not being able to provide more information on this particular point!

Walt Poor

Hello. I am having two problems. First, the video dashboard does not show any lessons past 64. How do we get to the rest of the lessons? Second, when I watched lesson 71, it froze and I couldn't see the final part. And since 71 is greater than 64, now I cannot get back to the lesson to say if the lesson has been thawed at last.

Dogen
>>36033123

Hi Walt, I apologize for the issues. The person that was helping me with the dashboard has gotten a bit busy and thus the site hasn't been updated for a while, but all of the lessons can still be found on the site index page, here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/16489306 I'm not sure what happened with episode 71; I just checked on this end and it seems to be working. Do you mind checking again? Here is a direct link to the lesson: https://www.patreon.com/posts/japanese-episode-31075447 Thank you!

Eva Sakamoto

This video just came at the right time! I just happend to rewatch episode 29 and noticed some parts were different but didn't know exactly why. I had taken notes a while ago, so it is good to know that in this case きのう　supposed to be heiban so I corrected that.

Dogen
>>36205810

Awesome, so glad to hear that this correction was timely! Good luck with your continued studies, Eva!