Hello everyone!
I've been learning Slovene for some time now and I have been having a blast. After my initial Slavophobia due to the case system that seemed way less regular than in the ancient languages I was used to, I have conquered most of the morphology and have built a pretty decent basic vocabulary.
For those who do not know, Slovene has two varieties; A pitch accent variety, and a stress accent variety. The former one is particularly spoken around the capital of Ljubljana and as a result a more prestigious one. However, due to the fact the stress based variant is also accepted, almost all learning materials cater to the second one.
I have been learning Slovene using the pitch accent via the official dictionary and a few other rare resources. While I do feel like I could technically mark pitch on words correctly now, and can pronounce them quite decently (or at least, I feel so) from my experience with Classical Chinese at university for two semesters, I am not sure how I should go about absorbing them.
I know for certain I am not able to distinguish them well in normal speech and I only have about a 70% success rate when I find slower speech. As a result, I don't think immersion would be good for learning how to speak naturally and quickly with a correct pitch accent. I also don't have the abundance of resources that languages like Japanese do for the pitch accent.
My question, then, is how I can make the best of the tools I have at my disposal, those being the following:
1) A (pretty cheap) tutor that doesn't know what it is but has a flawless very good accent
2) A (pretty expensive) tutor that has knowledge of the pitch accent
3) A bunch of media with the pitch accent being us
4) My knowledge of how the pitch accent behaves
Any insights, preferably from e.g Japanese learners, would be highly appreciated!
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