We've created a brand new how-to guide, the Kanshudo definitive guide to Japanese pitch accents. The guide provides a comprehensive overview of pitch accents. It will introduce you to the way accents work in Japanese compared to other languages, help you understand how to determine the correct accents of words and sentences, show you some commonly confused word groups, and show you how to look up accents in Kanshudo and Japanese dictionaries. The new guide also includes a wealth of fantastically clear native speaker audio samples recorded for us by a professional Japanese radio announcer.

Additionally, we've added pitch accent data and diagrams to over 150,000 words in the word dictionary - for example, try this search: .

The guide contains common examples of words with the same reading but different accents, and in addition, we've also added a new collection of all ~600 or so words within the most useful words in Japanese which have multiple accent forms. Click here to view the full collection.

We've also extended and improved our basic guide to Japanese pronunciation, and added native speaker audio samples to that too.

You now have everything you need to learn how to sound like a true native Japanese speaker!