记者：梁俊超

3月21日晚，日语角在图书馆进行。佐藤航老师、松岛加代子老师、目黑裕将老师均出席了本次日语角。

今晚，三位老师均提到了学生语言学习中遇到的一个非常棘手的问题——语音语调问题。同学们作为学习外语的“外国人”，由于存在口音而导致语音语调的偏差，这对于广大外语学习者来说，是在所难免的。此次日语角，三位老师就这一问题对大家进行了指导。

松岛老师现场带领大家朗读，并说道：“多开口读方能练就一口自然的语调”。佐藤老师同时也鼓励同学们，大胆开口交流，不仅能练好语音语调，更能通晓外国人说话时的思维方式，从而使自己变得更加“本地化”。目黑老师甚至把学生们的读音录下来，并通过当场播放，给出了一些修正建议。

今晚的日语角于9点30分结束，同学们充分认识到了语音语调在语言学习中的重要性。其实，不仅仅是日语和英语，在任何语言学习过程中，语音语调都与听说读写享有着同等重要的地位。

审稿：牛蒙

Japanese Corner : Pronunciation and Intonation

By Liang Junchao

The Japanese Corner attended by Mr. Wataru Sato, Mr. Hiromasa Meguro and Ms. Kayoko Matsushima was held in the library lobby at 6 p.m. on March 21st.

The three teachers talked about students’ pronunciation and intonation today. Since students were all more or less regarded as foreigners who were learning to speak Japanese, there were imperfections in their accents undoubtedly. Therefore, the three teachers had given some guidance longing to improve the students’ oral Japanese.

Ms. Matsushima made students read after her and taught them that reading as more as they could was the premise of a natural intonation. Mr. Sato encouraged students to chat with teachers more actively. Only by doing so could their pronunciation and intonation be close to a native Japanese speaker. Mr. Meguro even recorded students’ voice and played the recording in public in order to give students some advice on intonation adjustment.

Today the Japanese corner ended at nine thirty. Students got to know that a good pronunciation as well as intonation was the fundamental step of mastering a foreign language. In every language, pronunciation and intonation share the same importance with listening and writing.

Proofread by Niu Meng