Japanese is comparatively flat when it comes to accenting individual words. For example, a typical morning greeting: In English, the accent is on the first "syllable." (A syllable is a part of a word, like "mor" in "morning.") Good morning " ohayou gozaimasu " This is a Japanese morning greeting. We pronunce this sentence without accent. Native English speakers often accent "HA". Like oHAyou gozaimasu. There is no problem with that. We can understand it anyway. |