Matt vs. Japan on How to Master Japanese Through Immersion, Learn Kanji & Nail Your Accent
The Language Mastery Show
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Learning Japanese With Different Pitch Accent Systems
Pitch accent has not been part of the educational curriculum in Japanese programs historically. The brain is biased against looking for associations between pitch and lexical meaning when learning a foreign language, he says. "You can get by without ever realizing it's possible to understand Japanese while ignoring that aspect of the language because you rely on context"
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