Good evening Patrons! The fifty-third episode of Japanese Phonetics is live! In this lesson we explore at the Japanese approximants, や [ja] and わ [ɰa], as well as common issues and good to be aware of points for each sound.
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2018-11-23 07:29:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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Good evening Patrons!
Some of you may have seen a video circulating on YouTube of a Japanese man named Kazu nitpicking my Japanese. I've actually been in contact with Kazu-san since he created these videos; he's a very pleasant and knowledgeable gu...
2018-10-13 13:24:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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2018-10-03 13:40:37 +0000 UTC
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Note: I had intended on including native recordings for the voiced version of 'h' in 'haha' and 'gohan', but after listening to these files on repeat, I came to the conclusion that isolated recordings of these pronunciations c...
2018-09-01 11:17:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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2018-07-31 10:47:49 +0000 UTC
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2018-06-28 01:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Note: At around 10:10 in this video, I note that the standard Japanese z sound（the initial sound in ざ、ず、ぜ、ぞ）sometimes does become a fricative in the word initial position if it comes after a word ending in a ...
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A long overdue tour of the space and equipment I use to create videos (minus my 2016 macbook pro). If anyone has any questions feel free to let me know! More footage of the rest of my apartment coming soon.
Best from Beppu,
Dogen
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These are the resources I use to create Japanese Phonetics. A PDF which follows traditional formatting rules is also available here (last updated April 2...
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2018-02-17 10:59:15 +0000 UTC
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Good evening patrons! I have a couple quick announcements I wanted to share with everyone. First, and this is a big one:
I'm now the father of twin girls, Hannah and Kloe!
The girls were actually born a few weeks back, ...
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June 4, 2021 Update: In the previous version of this lesson, I talked about how the initial い in 行くか often gets partially dropped in rapid speech, and attributed this to devoicing. However, after doing additional research,...
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Sunday, January 23, 2022 update: A previous version of this video contained a mistake in the pitch-accent graphic for 先生は女だ at 12:35, but this has been fixed, along with a few other minor cosmetic changes.
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