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| Tyrion101 Senior Member United States Joined 3904 days ago 153 posts - 174 votes  Speaks: French | Message 1 of 7 29 May 2014 at 7:02am | IP Logged | ||
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I am acutely aware that when speaking you tend to sound very different to others than you do to yourself. I'm looking for a way to practice speaking the languages I know (including English) and be able to work on things like accent pronunciation, and enunciation. The only thing I could come up with was getting a free audio program and just recording my voice and checking the recording for that, but as I am just beginning on some languages I probably won't be as right as I'd like and never know it. Are there any options out there for me? I don't know anyone who speaks my languages. If anyone is curious: French (close to fluent, though not quite) Chinese (kind of conversant) Russian (just started)
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6900 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 7 29 May 2014 at 10:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Forum member Arekkusu talks about his "self-talk" method here:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=23061&TPN=20&KW=self-talk#325750 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tyrion101 Senior Member United States Joined 3904 days ago 153 posts - 174 votes Speaks: French | Message 3 of 7 30 May 2014 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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That's an interesting idea. Though I'd have a difficult time finding someone who'd want to listen to me speak a language they didn't know, I do already occasionally read aloud what I know how to pronounce. Maybe It's time to start doing more than a word here or two, and going for sentences and eventually the whole thing.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6694 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 7 31 May 2014 at 11:31am | IP Logged | ||
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I feel that I'm getting old and demented when I sit in a chair mumbling to myself, but less so if I can comment on some outside source - reading aloud is a doable exercise. Unfortunately I can't do classical shadowing because I can't listen and speak at the same time (for me it is a feat comparable to juggling and reading a newspaper while you stand on your head) so there one potentially beneficial technique went poufff for me. And I don't really like to speak new languages before I can participate fully in a normal conversation - not even on the internet - so in practice I mostly just think in the foreign languages I have to train until I can travel to a suitable country and speak them in their natural setting. Edited by Iversen on 31 May 2014 at 11:34am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6588 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 5 of 7 31 May 2014 at 1:58pm | IP Logged | ||
To get your pronunciation (etc) corrected, you can also record yourself reading aloud/speaking and post it on the Internet (for example here on HTLAL :)). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5091 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 6 of 7 31 May 2014 at 2:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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You might check to see if your library gives you free access to Mango Languages. You can
record your voice as you practice a word, phrase, or sentence in your TL. You can compare your intonation with that of a native speaker so you can tell exactly when your voice to match theirs. And you can reply both voices at the same time to work on speed and timing. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luhmann Senior Member Brazil Joined 5324 days ago 156 posts - 271 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: Mandarin, French, English, Italian, Spanish, Persian, Arabic (classical) | Message 7 of 7 14 June 2014 at 2:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Instead of recording and listening, I would speak on the microphone and listen live on the headphones. This instant feedback allowed me greatly improve my pronunciation back then.
Unfortunately on my current computer there is a noticeable delay on the sound output, which makes this method impossible. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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