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Matt Vs Japan on why your accent matters, Stephen Krashen, the input hypothesis and much more
I'm Learning Mandarin
Why Do People Say Different Patterns of Pitch Accent?
The more that I went through this process of paying attention to pitch accent whenever I listen to Japanese the more it became clear and clearer. It was literally like my brain thought that any word could be pronounced with any pattern I didn't realize there was a relationship between the two. My hope was if I would just train my intuition if I just listened to it enough my intuition would naturally like accommodate pitch accent but I tried that for a while and it didn't work like my pitch accent probably improved a little bit.
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