Japanese Pitch Accent : What is Pitch Accent? 

I feel like your english has a bit of a southern USA accent, Interesting... Cool video!

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The "こんにちは" had me cause almost dying laughing. Your video is so nice I literally pressed subscribe without even realizing it. Your humor is great Ma'am!

What a funny lady ☺

you make this sound so fun omg ^^

YOU ARE GREAT! SUCH A VIBRANT PERSONALITY 😍

どうもありがとうございました。 Until now I had not realized there are 4 different categories of pronunciation patterns for every word. This is so helpful and I am happy I found your channel. :) すぐにチャンネル登録しました！

I would enjoy listening to a rap version of your teaching. Your annunciation and tones would make a delightful mix of goodness

Thank you so much! It kind of reminds me of how in English we stress syllables to make them sound “right” and sometimes even change meaning, and that’s kind of what Japanese does but by making the syllables higher or lower :) Thank you again! It makes much more sense now!

A new subscriber here and I wanted to thank you so much for the link to the online pitch accent 辞書, because I am always forgetting how pitches go for simple words. Today I found your video series while trying to find how to pronounce かみなり. Thanks to the dictionary, I know how to say it properly! I am very grateful to you, thank you!

I have nothing to do with learning Japanese, but this channel is so wonderful, I simply had to subscribe.

This lesson was amazing..I love your energy. I've been learning Japanese for many years but I've never studied pitch accent...time to dive in! .誠にありがとうございます！登録しました！

What a lovely teacher. I am impressed. Thank you.

Thank you so much! Great video! And making pitched mm-mm-mm-mm version of the words to heard clearly only the pattern is a wonderfull help, I love that!

先生は可愛すぎると思います！

I feel like you enjoy speaking english more than I do! I love hearing you speak!!

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This is a great video and the first time I'm hearing of OJAD; thanks so much!!

As I get older my appreciation for teachers of all varieties has exponentially increased. One day I know I'll be that teacher and I hope I can be as good a teacher as those like you who teach.

Thank you so much Ms A Soma! 🙏 Japanese Pitch accent has been really difficult for me, but you helped me understand the logic behind. 😄 Your channel is amazing I just subscribed! 😊

この動画はすごいですね。I'm glad I found this video series. Finding out about the Japanese pitch accent blew my mind.

You're an amazing teacher, thank you so much for the lesson

I'm so glad I found your channel!!! Thank you!

おもしろい！！ありがとうございます。日本語はきれいな言語です！

Thank you! This was very useful

THANK YOU VERI VERI VERI MUCH!!!

If you don't have perfect pitch you will still be understood by the context. So keep learning structure first, pitch will come naturally later just listen to native speakers.

Good energy ty ty

Thank you for the video

This is trully the most diffucult part of japanese. And ん！

Excellent job!

When I am learning Pitch accent its like learning to speak for the first time heheh Because that is what it sounds like. My Native Tongue is Thai. Second Language is English and now Japanese is gonna be my third.

you should make an online school with cheap subcription.. this is so good ..

参考になりました!　本当にありがとうございます。😊

thank you so much for this video!!

1:18 so basically it would sound like a little royal child in a kabuki play haha

Thank you!! Great lesson. : )

Pitch Accent depends of the region too....and according to a book about japanese grammar, young people are modifying some of them lol.

I have found over the years that tones in English have been dictated by fashion . Groups of people learn to speak in tones that I cannot replicate . For example during the seventies and eighties people who were linked to having long hair would have a strange way of talking . You can see it from Neil in the comedy The Young Ones . Now there is a way of talking where the sentences end on a high tone , I cannot talk like this either . And there is a new tonal fashion where people drop the tone of words to an almost growl , apparently this is very bad for the vocal chords . I've always associated tones in English with emotional content and not meanings of words . Isn't it interesting how languages have developed ?

わぁ〜　初めて Ms A Soma のチャネルの動画を見ました！私の日本語の発音はおかしいと思うので、正しく話せたいです。この動画はすごく面白くて、内容もとても助かりました。良いコンテントを作ってくれてありがとうございます。では、他の動画も見ます　^_^

Oh my goodness! You sound like a Japanese Peggy Hill! This is incredible!

OJAD is at: www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ojad/eng/pages/home

Kris Aquino Japanese version.

変わった人格が好き。本当に面白くておかしいです。そのチャンネルを見つけて嬉しくなりました。ありがとうござました！すみません、まだ日本語の文法を使うのが下手ですね。

When I saw the thumbnail about みかん(mikan(japanese orange)), I though "what if the word オレンジ(orenji) didn't exist?" Considering how the word orange as a colour is the same as the fruit in english perhaps japanese could do the same. What about みかん色(mikan iro(orange colour))

Hello, I always enjoy your videos and how well detailed they are. I am a professor of linguistics, and I have a quick question regarding the pitch accent of すし. I saw on one web channel that the pitch accent given for すし　was HiLo (atamadaka). I learned it as an odaka word( LoHi with the following particle dropping). When the honorific particle お is placed before it, I learned the pitch accent as LoHiLo おすし. The Japanese pitch accent dictionary has the same as well. So my question is whether a change is occurring with すし having a HiLo pattern, OR is this because it is always HiLo when the honorific お precedes it? ...just wondering This calls to mind ちち　"my own father" which I learned as an odaka word (LoHi with the following particle dropping) that can also be read as an atamadaka word HiLo. I look forward to your thoughts on this. Thank you.

More on pitch accents by cute Mochina sensei: @

have you read Waseda Daigaku Professor Toda Takako's research on pitch accents? she also recommends the OJAD :)

do you know of a japan comic skit who makes fun of accents? Example in Saturday Night Live ; they do "The Californians".. I used to watch many o warai's in Japan typically stuff like とんねるず and めちゃ²イケ...

Japanese may think that Japanese language has no stress or "konnichiha" is pronounced in a flat way, but when for speakers languages it is OBVIOUS that it is neither "konNIchiwa" nor "konniCHI" nor "konnichiWA" but "KONnichiwa". "pitch" is just a marketing tool.

I have clicked to figure out what this Japanese pitch accent was about, i am know peculiarly curious about that one English accent of yours. I dont mean to be rude or let you think anything is wrong with that matter, but, it sounds so different that i am now more curious about that. though, i guess i am late now. Thanks for the explanation, it helps me answering some questions i was having while practicing and listening.

this video is so good that I already sound very better

I loved learning about the pitch accent! It’s a big feature of the way Japanese sounds but I never heard it explained. Thank you!

ありがとうございます

ありがとうございます！　先生おかげでこの話題もっと知りました

How do you know which words have pitch accents