Matt vs. Japan on How to Master Japanese Through Immersion, Learn Kanji & Nail Your Accent
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Is There a Difference Between Mandarin Tone and Tone?
When English speakers start learning Japanese, their brain has an assumption that pitch accent isn't there. So they just it never gets uprooted essentially. And the interesting thing is when you look at Chinese speakers who reach a high level of Japanese ability, they usually do acquire most of pitch accent even with even if they don't study it. They already have a predisposition to look for connections between pitch and lexical meaning. Because Chinese has tones. Exactly. These tones function on a personable basis, whereas pitch accent is on a per word basis. That's it? Yeah. I can give you a really easy, easy answer.
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