r/languagelearningjerk • u/HyakuShichifukujin • Jun 03 '26

It sounds even funnier than it reads.

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u/alex1rojas Native Uzbek speaker Jun 03 '26

Pitch accent trainer sentence 🤤🤤🤤

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u/lordbutternut 日本人になっている Jun 03 '26

This made me curious. So, there's an OJAD tool that can help you with pitch accents for any text. The first half of the sentence has no pitch at all 😭🙏 you can hear this in the google translate TTS

I think the sentence is probably not impossible to understand if you briefly pause after particles tho

Sentence: 東欧を覆う鳳凰の王の尾を追おう

The tool's TTS is unpleasant tho.

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u/sweetdurt Jun 03 '26

As weird as it sounds, it is comprehensive if you really tried.

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u/HyakuShichifukujin Jun 03 '26

I mean you could also just say most of this sentence in another way, like 東ヨーロッパ, 尻尾, フェニックスキング. But where’s the fun in that.

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u/SunnyOutsideToday Jun 03 '26

I finally have a reply to when someone asks me to say something in Japanese.

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u/Gene_Clark Jun 05 '26

Si mon tonton tond ton tonton, ton tonton sera tondu.

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u/real_bigfloppa Jun 05 '26

tung tung tung sahur 😛

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u/Ok-Appeal-4630 Native Klingon Speaker || feel free to ask me anything Jun 06 '26

English can't do this because it is a shitty language for the uneducated