Japanese Accent: Penult Standard

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Japanese Accent: Penult Standard

Japanese Accent: Penult Standard is a comprehensive yet easy-to-understand explanation of how Japanese words are accented. This helps proper pronunciation and boosts learning.

There are 12 lessons, and each lesson is presented with an online video and webpage text.

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The following images illustrate the steps for using Kanji Learning Today: Online 1 and the steps will be the same for using Japanese Accent: Penult Standard.

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Japanese Accent: Penult Standard STARTER

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Japanese Accent: Penult Standard STARTER is offered free of charge and appear on the Member page.

Japanese Accent: Penult Standard STARTER presents Lesson 1, which introduces a few of the main concepts of the accent system.

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Japanese Accent: Penult Standard FULL

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Japanese Accent: Penult Standard FULL is available for subscription.

Japanese Accent: Penult Standard FULL presents Lessons 1~12, which explain all of the concepts of the accent system. The system helps the user understand how to correctly pronounce Japanese.

Accent Format

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Each lesson of Japanese Accent: Penult Standard provides an online video. This allows the user to see and hear examples of Japanese pronunciation. The web page also includes the text so that the user can study at his or her own pace.

Accent Examples

The lessons explain accent by word categories, such as verbs and nouns. The lessons include 317 word examples and 155 sentence examples. The examples are given in specially constructed blocks that show the accent in hiragana, then again as furigana when using kanji to represent the word.

Example Word

stop ~

Example Sentence

あおくるまる。しろくるまた。 I will stop blue cars.
I stopped white cars.
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Non-Intuitive Details Explained

While the central premise is clearly explained in Lesson 1, there are many non-intuitive details that are carefully described in the subsequent lessons of the series. These details concern topics such as the following.

Acknowledgements

Japanese Accent: Penult Standard was developed by Todd Adkisson.