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08-24-2009, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Nyororin View Post
Raising the intonation of the ka sounds weird. In fact, I`d say that you lower it instead of raising it. Question intonation is not the same in Japanese and English.
This. You seem to be applying English interrogative rules to Japanese. This is patently not correct. I kept trying to think of questions where I'd raise my voice like in English questions, but I couldn't find anything that sounded natural to my ears. The existence of the か there means you do not need to raise the intonation at the end of a question.
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