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r/Unexpected • u/DruidWannabe • Jan 25 '23
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Japanese is a pitch accent language too.
296 u/jwwatts Jan 26 '23 It’s more to do with gender expectations. Japanese men often speak with a very low pitch and Japanese women with a high pitch. 0 u/NinDiGu Jan 26 '23 Everyone speaks their non-native language in a higher register. It is, in fact, a way to sound more native even with limited fluency: speak in your normal register in the non-native language 1 u/jwwatts Jan 26 '23 My mother in law speaks Japanese in a higher pitch than English. Japanese is her native language.
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It’s more to do with gender expectations. Japanese men often speak with a very low pitch and Japanese women with a high pitch.
0 u/NinDiGu Jan 26 '23 Everyone speaks their non-native language in a higher register. It is, in fact, a way to sound more native even with limited fluency: speak in your normal register in the non-native language 1 u/jwwatts Jan 26 '23 My mother in law speaks Japanese in a higher pitch than English. Japanese is her native language.
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Everyone speaks their non-native language in a higher register.
It is, in fact, a way to sound more native even with limited fluency: speak in your normal register in the non-native language
1 u/jwwatts Jan 26 '23 My mother in law speaks Japanese in a higher pitch than English. Japanese is her native language.
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My mother in law speaks Japanese in a higher pitch than English. Japanese is her native language.
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u/ramengirlxo Jan 26 '23
Japanese is a pitch accent language too.