Thanks for the reply! It's so funny how whenever one looks for hard and fast rules in Japanese one comes up short, haha. Does anybody know why they place a sokuon after a Kanji character? Do I emphasize the last mora of the Kanji?I outsourced my opinion.
This statement is not entirely accurate. While many loanwords in Japanese do have a heiban (flat) accent pattern, it's not correct to say that "most" loanwords follow this pattern.
Loanwords in Japanese can actually have various accent patterns, including:
1. Heiban (flat): e.g., コンピューター (konpyūtā, computer)
2. Atamadaka (initial high): e.g., カメラ (kamera, camera)
3. Nakadaka (middle high): e.g., アメリカ (amerika, America)
4. Odaka (final high): e.g., テレビ (terebi, television)
The accent pattern of loanwords can depend on factors such as the original language's stress pattern, the word's length, and how it has been adapted into Japanese phonology. While heiban is common, it's not the dominant pattern for all loanwords.
It's also worth noting that accent patterns for loanwords can vary by region and individual speaker, making it difficult to generalize about "most" loanwords having a specific accent pattern.
Pronunciation doesn't affect the kanji word but the って part. That is, て and って are pronounced differently. Just as きて and きって are pronounced differnetly.Thanks for the reply! It's so funny how whenever one looks for hard and fast rules in Japanese one comes up short, haha. Does anybody know why they place a sokuon after a Kanji character? Do I emphasize the last mora of the Kanji?
Ex.
会社って
Although って can be used as a casual quotation marker in Japanese (replacing と), it is also frequently used as a casual topic marker (replacing は). This is something that occurs primarily in spoken language, and will come directly after the sentence topic, in exactly the same way as the adverbial particle は usually would.
Super cool, so it's another way to state a topic? Cool!Pronunciation doesn't affect the kanji word but the って part. That is, て and って are pronounced differently. Just as きて and きって are pronounced differnetly.
って is just a casual more colloquial way to write という and sometimes は as noted here:
Oh wow, I had no idea. Thanks for the help!And if I could nitpick for a moment, the title of the thread is odd.
If you want to say "what do you think?", you would say どう思いますか？
思いますか by itself doesn't really make sense.
But, yes, you are correct in that every time you come across a hard rule in Japanese, there seems to be a million different major exceptions to that rule. I think it is the same with most languages. The trick is to continue learning the rules, and at the same time being aware that those rules are often broken.
Pardon me for nitpicking just a little more. The の in this part of your signature is grammatically incorrect. It doesn't need to be replaced by anything else, just removed to be fixed.黒いの太陽 <3
Oh I found it. I didn't even know about that feature.Oh no, my signature! Haha
Wow, thank you for the awesome insights.I think many of us here learned Japanese before the internet - so, yes books were essential to our learning, and maybe us old-timers have a slightly irrational attachment to that form of study. (No distractions, can write notes on them, portable and useable regardless of wifi or power access, etc...). The "Genki" series is often mentioned as a valuable tool for learning Japanese. I used a different text, produced by the University of Hawaii, which I am sure is out of print now. (I also had a book called 500 Japanese Verbs, and two kanji books - Toyo Kanji and Joyo Kanji). All of those were great resources for me.
But there are many paths to Japanese fluency, and I'm sure there are many people nowadays who use the internet as their exclusive source of information. If it works for you, who are we to judge.