People from different countries speaking Tokyo Japanese at dusk with Tokyo Tower behind them

Tokyo pitch · ですます

Japonês padrão de Tóquio

Broadcasts, JLPT, offices, and capital-region counters run on Tokyo pitch and ですます. Kansai, Tohoku, and anime role-speech are fine to hear later — lock the form that works everywhere first, or you pay twice to unlearn.

Start the course 今日场景 B0 入门骨架 Tokyo vs Kansai / anime

今日场景

听 · 影子跟读 · 你说

每天一个真场景：听原速 → 影子跟读 → 地道变体 → 你说。

开始今日练

Lock the trunk accent first

Tokyo Fixed pitch nucleus; ですます works at every counter
Kansai Nucleus often flipped — hear it, do not start here
Anime voice Flattened pitch and catchphrases — entertainment, not office default

One spelling, three Tokyo shapes

Dictionary pitch is capital-region. Kansai often reverses the drop; anime often flattens it. Open a band to see the nucleus in class.

箸 筷子 · 头高
橋 桥 · 尾高
端 端 · 平板

Why Tokyo first

  • JLPT, news, station announcements, office mail and hospital windows default to this.
  • Learn a dialect or anime voice first and you pay twice to unlearn it.
  • Once Tokyo pitch is solid, Osaka and Fukuoka are additions.
  • The other way round is rework.

Six bands, one classroom

Kana through editorials in one room. Each band opens g-science with a working ?band= link · 216 课室课 / 2059 条目。

1 · B0 入门 假名、拍子、ですます · 111 课室课 2 · B1 基础 汉字、出行、就医 · 42 课室课 3 · B2 自立 普通体、敬语入门 · 16 课室课 4 · B3 进阶 职场邮件、告示 · 22 课室课 5 · B4 专业 专业词加餐 · 13 课室课 6 · B5 精通 社说、开会敬语 · 12 课室课
Tokyo

Common Japanese sits on capital-region sound. It is not an average of every dialect.

箸 はし Tokyo: atamadaka H-L Kansai often ends high — chopsticks and bridge swap
ありがとう Tokyo: polite standard Kansai daily おおきに; offices still want the standard form
です / ます Capital polite Role speech だぜ / やん — not in this course
Mora ん, っ, long vowels each count Romanization-only books drop a beat

Why this course

  • Tokyo mora, jōyō kanji, editorials, productive keigo, conjugated pitch — starter through peak in one room. Not a second Genki.
  • Peak models read at news speed. Pitch matches OJAD. Pro packs are extra vocabulary.
  • Related lines stay in-scene. Reviews only cover core words and patterns.
  • Kanji to read and write. Editorials and keigo open as working lessons.

Start with capital-region mora

Ten minutes of kana and pitch. Starter through C1 share one classroom — tap a band below.

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