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Pecha Kucha
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mkosior
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Pecha Kucha
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Dear All, I need help from JAPANESE NATIVE SPEAKING colleagues. I am very much a fun of Pecha Kucha presentations and will be hosting a Pecha Kucha event soon. I have a question regarding the famous controversy: how do you pronounce the term? Is it /ˌpetʃə ˈkʊtʃə/ or do we pronounce it with emphasis on the second syllable as in pe-chach-ka?
Your help will be appreciated.
Thank you, Margarita |
3 Mar 2014
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alien boy
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Just pm �d you Margarita!
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3 Mar 2014
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mkosior
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Thank you for all your help! |
3 Mar 2014
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ueslteacher
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@Alien Boy: I �m also curious to know |
3 Mar 2014
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alien boy
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Here you are:
Japanese is a tonal language, not inflectional, so the emphasis is quite different to English.
The character lengths/phonemic components are all the same length in spoken Japanese, & it�s written like this (but with no spaces between the character groups):
ぺ ちゃ く ちゃ
pe cha ku cha
pɛ tʃɑ ku tʃɑ
pɛ - slightly higher pitched than tʃɑ ku tʃɑ
It�s an onomatopoeia for �chit chat �.
I hope that�s helped a little!
Cheers,
AB
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3 Mar 2014
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