Phonetics Lesson Updates
Added 2021-08-19 11:21:12 +0000 UTCGood evening, Patrons!
I hope your studies are going well. I just wanted to let everyone know that I've updated two more videos from the pronunciation sub-series with high quality native recordings. These are lessons 49, which covers 'b', 'p', and lesson 50, which covers 'm', as well as a mini-review of the sub-series up to this point.
Lesson 49
Lesson 50
Notes:
1. I took out one part of the review section in lesson 50 which covered vocal placement (now covered in Episode 5.1, Japanese voice and speaking style). This is noted in the video at approximately 3:34. For my current thoughts on said topic, please see the above link to lesson 5.1.
2. In the original version of lesson 50, when reviewing the pronunciation of えい and the Japanese 'B', I use the wrong pitch-accent for 招いて and 響く, respectively. I say 'maNEiTE' and 'hiBIKU', but these should be 'maNEite' and 'hiBIku'. I've since removed these recordings from the lesson, and left in only high quality native recordings of other words to explain these points.
3. In the near future, I'll be adding a small title to lesson 45 at approximately 3:30 which says, "pronunciation exaggerated for illustrative purposes." In this part of the lesson, I'm very slowly showing how a word like ドッグ can sometimes sound a bit like 'dokku', but I'd just like everyone watching to know that the pronunciation here is, again, exaggerated in order to note the point. Just after this bit there is a section with native recordings for ドッグ, and I would encourage all learners to use these to hear the concept in action, so to speak.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns with regards to this post, please don't hesitate to leave a comment. Thank you very much for the continued support, and good luck with your Japanese studies!
Dōgen
Comments
(A quick reminder that JP and Kimi are helping respond to messages and comments here on Patreon.) Hello again, William. I missed this comment when you posted it. Since it's the same as the message you sent, I'll copy over the reply I gave so that others can see it. Cheers! ===== It looks like you're a new patron—Selamat and welcome to the community! Most basic questions, similar to what you are asking, are covered in the course. The best thing to do is first go through the lessons. As you go through the series more questions may come up, but a lot of these questions will be answered in later lessons. You can find the list of lessons in the series plus a few other resources on the Japanese Phonetics Index Page, here: patreon.com/posts/japanese-index-16489306 The lessons on heiban verbs and conjugations start around lesson 18. I hope this helps, and good luck with your studies!
Dogen
2021-08-28 00:54:00 +0000 UTCHello Dogen, I'm William from Indonesia. I wanna ask , does the pitch accent pattern of a word stays the same even after it changes form, so for example like 広がる and 広がっている or like する and した. Do both of these words stay heiban?
William
2021-08-25 03:41:51 +0000 UTC
