Let’s make your pronunciation easy to hear and understand! –practice with slash reading method-

Abstract

• Can do: tell long sentences easy to understand for others.
• Study style: practice while checking slashes and pitch curves.
• Tools: pens
• Preparation: long sentence

How to

1. put reading instruction (hiragana reading) to all Kanji in the sentence.

2. put slashes(/) as a sign for pause.

[When to put a pause]

• after particles
• After conjunctions (ex:soshite/then, shikashi/but etc) and after conjunction particles (ex:~te, ~tari etc)
• after long modifier of a non-inflectable words (more than 15mora/more than 15 hiragana)
• Before noun phrase
• Before a word you want to emphasize

3. Write an intonation sign which looks like hiragana [へ] in between slashes.

4. Pronounce with high pitch first, and make it go down slowly like the shape of ヘ. Make sure to insert a quick pause at each slash.