Japanese pronunciation teacher

new_to_tokyo New member

Registered: 2013-07-11 Posts: 3

I'm in the process of studying Japanese, have a bad accent and so I found a Japanese accent teacher. He helps foreigners get rid of their gaijin accent. I had a dozen one-on-one lessons with him and I it helped improve my pronunciation. Unfortunately I'm looking for someone a bit closer to central Tokyo. Does anyone know of a teacher or school that focuses on this? I've done a search of the web but can't seem to find anything.

If you are curious, here's the person I saw previously.

http://www.nihongo-hatsuon.jp/access/index.html

Thanks in advance for any help...

juniperpansy Member

Registered: 2009-08-03 Posts: 164

I can't help you there unfortunately... but one thing that really helped my pronunciation was to do shadowing with Anki and subs2srs

Last edited by juniperpansy (2013 July 11, 1:52 pm)

new_to_tokyo New member

Registered: 2013-07-11 Posts: 3

Thanks!

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Animosophy Member

Registered: 2013-02-19 Posts: 180

Absolutely agree with shadowing. I've found that it often helps me implicity pronounce words with the pitch in the right place, either on its own or in a sentence, which changes the intonation a lot. I'm quite fervent on keeping my pronunciation up to par with my reading comprehension, because I don't want to understand a word/passage without being able to read it aloud.

It's still very difficult but without all of the shadowing I do, my farmiliarity with pitch in Japanese, and my ability to guess as to what sounds most correct would be non-existent

Tzadeck Member

From: Kinki Registered: 2009-02-21 Posts: 2484

There are a bunch of websites for finding tutors in Japan, and usually you write what you want to focus on and tutors who think they might be a good fit will e-mail you. Then you can do a trial lesson to see if you think he/she'll be a good tutor. I would just write what you want on one of these sites and maybe you'll find someone good. The one I found my former tutor on was らぼっち (http://www.labochi.com/), but there were a couple others if I remember correctly.

I took lessons with the first and only tutor I met for about four years (until she got pregnant, haha), and she's one of the greatest people I've ever met. I went to her wedding, still go to her BBQs and house parties, etc. Actually, I might have used her for life advice more than Japanese... but also Japanese.

Last edited by Tzadeck (2013 July 11, 7:17 pm)

new_to_tokyo New member

Registered: 2013-07-11 Posts: 3

Thanks for the link to labochi.com, will check it out!

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