
Giving up on looking cool, focussing instead on sounding natural (language lessons I wished I’d learnt earlier)
Recently I have mostly been watching videos by Dogen. Dogen being the pen-name for an American guy who speaks insanely natural-sounding Japanese and who makes videos about how to do so. I highly recommend checking out his Patreon page. He also makes rather hilarious youTube videos in Japanese, which is where I first discovered him. The focus of his videos is phonetics, particularly the importance of correct pitch-accent for natural-sounding Japanese. And as I watch them and try to put these lessons into practise, I am realising pitch-accent is a – probably the – major weakness in my Japanese. And … Continue reading Giving up on looking cool, focussing instead on sounding natural (language lessons I wished I’d learnt earlier)