Nasality in Japanese—Important!
Added 2020-02-27 02:01:12 +0000 UTCGood afternoon Patrons!
I recently received a YouTube comment (pinned on this video) from a Japanese speaker which essentially said, "Your Japanese is very good, but sometimes it sounds like you're speaking with slightly too much nasality." In the above video, I address this comment in detail.
To be clear—I often speak Japanese in an overly nasal manner in both my comedic videos and in this Patreon series, and this is unnatural. Try to speak from your mouth, rather than your nose.
As mentioned in the above video, yesterday I re-recorded the 'Japanese Vocal Placement Clarification' video to include a small section addressing the nasality in my Japanese. This video can be found here.
If anyone has any questions or concerns with regards to this topic please don't hesitate to leave a comment or question below. Thank you for your continued support and good luck with you Japanese studies!
Dōgen
Comments
My pleasure!
Dogen
2020-03-12 04:56:30 +0000 UTCThis was very nice and useful, thank you!
Angelalikesthings
2020-03-11 18:12:06 +0000 UTCIt's absolutely my pleasure Jacob! Glad to hear that you were able to get something from this video!
Dogen
2020-03-01 00:37:17 +0000 UTCThanks for the video! I feel like I learn a lot from these "behind the scenes" frank discussions.
Jacob Stefan Quartuccio
2020-02-29 14:38:16 +0000 UTCNo worries Yoichi! Thank you for the comment, and thank you as well for signing up on Patreon!
Dogen
2020-02-29 05:12:38 +0000 UTCDogen, I enjoy your videos very much even though I am a native speaker of Japanese. I wrote what I think about your "Japanese Vocal Placement Clarification' video" on YouTube. I now realize that I should have done it here instead of over there, so I may delete that comment later. Thank you.
Yoichi Mukai
2020-02-29 03:19:18 +0000 UTC
