So I’m in Anki deck with a pitch accent part and I don’t know how to use it to pronounce words Ex. [https://imgur.com/a/THSEL5T](https://imgur.com/a/THSEL5T)
ん (and the rest of the word) should be lower than し. (i.e., It ‘drops’ at し.)
(I prefer thinking of it at the syllable level (not mora), and so I think it’s okay to consider ん and っ to be part of one syllable with whatever comes before it when it comes to pitch accent. So the pitch dropping at ‘しん’ instead of ‘し’ in this case.)
Combine this knowledge with audio (maybe it’s already in your Anki deck?). Otherwise, use something like [jisho.org](https://jisho.org). Sentence level examples from SentenceSearch and YouGlish are cool, but they can be different from what’s marked because of (1) sentence level pitch accent rules and (2) dialects.
Listen to the audio on forvo or youglish of a native speaker and mimic that.
Here is common notation that NHK and various J-J dictionaries use.
親切
発音図：シ↓ンセツ [1]
助詞付：シ↓ンセツオ
Compare audio and graphs w
新設
発音図：シンセツ [0]
助詞付：シンセツオ
The first word has a downstep (drop in pitch) after the first mora while the second word is said flat with no downstep.
The red line on top that shows that it drops at the right side there, says that し is high, and then it drops and the rest is low. “SHInsetsu”.
I recommend checking out this video by Fumi (Speak Japanese Naturally): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9OArpr2A78](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9OArpr2A78) I really like her videos because they are short but very informative. She has a lot of focus on pitch, but also has some other content. I hope the linked video can make it easier to use and read the pitch accent in your deck 🙂
Also, in case you are interested in learning more pitch accent stuff. I have installed a Chrome add-on called jisho-pitcher that adds pitch accent information to the jisho online dictionary. It’s really useful if you are curious about words not from your anki deck 🙂 One example is if you look up the word “はし”, you can see that the pitch accent would decide if it is a bridge or chopsticks that you’re talking about. And on that topic, with the wrong pitch you could accidentally say “I am going over the chopsticks to pet a nose” instead of “I am going over the bridge to buy flowers” 😛
Here’s a screenshot of the Chrome add-on, when I looked up the word in your screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/3kfU65F
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ん (and the rest of the word) should be lower than し. (i.e., It ‘drops’ at し.)
(I prefer thinking of it at the syllable level (not mora), and so I think it’s okay to consider ん and っ to be part of one syllable with whatever comes before it when it comes to pitch accent. So the pitch dropping at ‘しん’ instead of ‘し’ in this case.)
Combine this knowledge with audio (maybe it’s already in your Anki deck?). Otherwise, use something like [jisho.org](https://jisho.org). Sentence level examples from SentenceSearch and YouGlish are cool, but they can be different from what’s marked because of (1) sentence level pitch accent rules and (2) dialects.
Listen to the audio on forvo or youglish of a native speaker and mimic that.
Here is common notation that NHK and various J-J dictionaries use.
親切
発音図：シ↓ンセツ [1]
助詞付：シ↓ンセツオ
Compare audio and graphs w
新設
発音図：シンセツ [0]
助詞付：シンセツオ
The first word has a downstep (drop in pitch) after the first mora while the second word is said flat with no downstep.
The red line on top that shows that it drops at the right side there, says that し is high, and then it drops and the rest is low. “SHInsetsu”.
I recommend checking out this video by Fumi (Speak Japanese Naturally): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9OArpr2A78](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9OArpr2A78)
I really like her videos because they are short but very informative. She has a lot of focus on pitch, but also has some other content. I hope the linked video can make it easier to use and read the pitch accent in your deck 🙂
Also, in case you are interested in learning more pitch accent stuff. I have installed a Chrome add-on called jisho-pitcher that adds pitch accent information to the jisho online dictionary. It’s really useful if you are curious about words not from your anki deck 🙂
One example is if you look up the word “はし”, you can see that the pitch accent would decide if it is a bridge or chopsticks that you’re talking about. And on that topic, with the wrong pitch you could accidentally say “I am going over the chopsticks to pet a nose” instead of “I am going over the bridge to buy flowers” 😛
Here’s a screenshot of the Chrome add-on, when I looked up the word in your screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/3kfU65F