not sure how many other people use takoboto e-dictionary on android, but they just added pitch accent markers to all words, i’m excited
Ultimately you have to learn it word by word but you can use patterns to make remembering the pitch a lot easier. E.g. ゆっくり くっきり さっぱり etc. all have their drop one mora after the っ (ゆっく↓り), 99% of verbs and adjectives are either 平板 or have their drop right before the last mora (notable exceptions being 通る 通す 帰る 返す and 入る which are 頭高 due to a pitch shift caused by a double vowel), certain groups of words share the same accent (以上 以下 以前 以降 以来 are all 頭高), etc. I reccomend putting the accent on all your cards and over time you’ll pick up on these kind of rules and patterns automatically. You can also find a lot of rules in the appendix of the 新明解日本語アクセント辞典.
It’s far more valuable to be able to listen to and replicate pitch accent patterns and intonation and such across and at the end of a sentence than it is to memorize accents on an individual basis. You could shadow or mimic as you go. I don’t usually recommend paying anything to learn Japanese but $5 for one month of Dogen’s Patreon is more than enough to go over a few of his lessons and snag his really good professionally made pitch accent decks. Then cancel or continue as you see fit.
Yes.
Rather than add a written description of the pitch accent, it’s more intuitive to hear the word with its correct pitch accent every time you review it, which can be done by adding sound files. You can get sound files from [Forvo](https://forvo.com/), or [this extension](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/858591644) that will download them for you.
You don’t have to. I don’t bother with it. It at least doubles what you need to know for every word you learn. I’m aware of it and the different types, and I can hear the change in pitch (trained myself in relative pitch years ago for shits and gigs) and that’s where I’ll leave it. There are more components to sounding natural than just pitch, like volume, cadence, pause, intonation, stress, etc. In my opinion, I think people’s obsession with pitch comes more from the fact that you can (somewhat) study it rather than it being urgently important.
in practical terms the whole pitch accent thing is overrated:
i.e. unless you are trying to pass the 朗読検定 or do something akin to it, you can talk as you like being that as long as the words you utter resemble their correct originals people will understand you (more or less)
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not sure how many other people use takoboto e-dictionary on android, but they just added pitch accent markers to all words, i’m excited
Ultimately you have to learn it word by word but you can use patterns to make remembering the pitch a lot easier. E.g. ゆっくり くっきり さっぱり etc. all have their drop one mora after the っ (ゆっく↓り), 99% of verbs and adjectives are either 平板 or have their drop right before the last mora (notable exceptions being 通る 通す 帰る 返す and 入る which are 頭高 due to a pitch shift caused by a double vowel), certain groups of words share the same accent (以上 以下 以前 以降 以来 are all 頭高), etc. I reccomend putting the accent on all your cards and over time you’ll pick up on these kind of rules and patterns automatically. You can also find a lot of rules in the appendix of the 新明解日本語アクセント辞典.
It’s far more valuable to be able to listen to and replicate pitch accent patterns and intonation and such across and at the end of a sentence than it is to memorize accents on an individual basis. You could shadow or mimic as you go. I don’t usually recommend paying anything to learn Japanese but $5 for one month of Dogen’s Patreon is more than enough to go over a few of his lessons and snag his really good professionally made pitch accent decks. Then cancel or continue as you see fit.
Yes.
Rather than add a written description of the pitch accent, it’s more intuitive to hear the word with its correct pitch accent every time you review it, which can be done by adding sound files. You can get sound files from [Forvo](https://forvo.com/), or [this extension](https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/858591644) that will download them for you.
You don’t have to. I don’t bother with it. It at least doubles what you need to know for every word you learn. I’m aware of it and the different types, and I can hear the change in pitch (trained myself in relative pitch years ago for shits and gigs) and that’s where I’ll leave it. There are more components to sounding natural than just pitch, like volume, cadence, pause, intonation, stress, etc. In my opinion, I think people’s obsession with pitch comes more from the fact that you can (somewhat) study it rather than it being urgently important.
in practical terms the whole pitch accent thing is overrated:
i.e. unless you are trying to pass the 朗読検定 or do something akin to it, you can talk as you like being that as long as the words you utter resemble their correct originals people will understand you (more or less)