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| Amun Triglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 5057 days ago 52 posts - 72 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, French Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 15 16 July 2013 at 10:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah I sometimes do it, just to see if any progress is made.
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| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4688 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 10 of 15 16 July 2013 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | ||
Have you found this helpful? Additionally, what exactly are you measuring when you listen to yourself? Accent? Prosody? Enunciation? I am very curious as to whether this would be a worthwhile addition to the shadowing process. Edited by BaronBill on 16 July 2013 at 4:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Amun Triglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 5057 days ago 52 posts - 72 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, French Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 15 16 July 2013 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, my main issue with pronouncing foreign languages correctly seem to be vowels.. I often erroneously default to Dutch sounding vowels (a bit too elongated), while I use most consonants correctly. Even though I perfectly understand their sound in the foreign languages, nevertheless I still often unconsciously default to Dutch-like vowels. However, when I shadow this is less problematic than in my natural speech, but when I record and review I adjust myself faster and better. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Retinend Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4307 days ago 283 posts - 557 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), French | Message 12 of 15 16 July 2013 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Do your headphones allow a certain resonance, a buzz, from your own voice to be heard
while you talk along with the audio? If you've ever tuned a guitar or other instrument to a reference note, you should be "tuning" your own voice to the audio, so to speak. In other words, compare the two and keep getting better at it until the distinctions are natural for you to perceive. The other side of this is how you speak - while you are matching your voice to the audio you should really put a stress on the muscles of your mouth so that by the end of 15-30 minutes you should feel pretty tired in that area. In my L2 it's easy to draw upon many fun stereotypes of accents. I exaggerate them to the point of cruelty. You shouldn't feel like a dog on a leash, but rather like an actor rehearsing for a show. You sort of are. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Amun Triglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 5057 days ago 52 posts - 72 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, French Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 15 16 July 2013 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Nope, I have been using fairly standard in-ear headphones (sans mic functions), which ones
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| Retinend Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4307 days ago 283 posts - 557 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), French | Message 14 of 15 16 July 2013 at 11:38pm | IP Logged | ||
Something like this - they make a little seal in your ear. If you can somehow try out a lot of different pairs before you buy then give them a little shadowing test: some are TOO isolating and you hear the rumble of your own voice way too loud over the recording. You want a pair which give you a little "feedback" (if that's the word) but not too much. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Amun Triglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 5057 days ago 52 posts - 72 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, French Studies: Spanish | Message 15 of 15 17 July 2013 at 1:24am | IP Logged | ||
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I think I got some earphones with a small mic in them on the side that came along with my
smartphone. However, I need to figure out what application can produce real time microphone input along with allowing the shadowing audio to play. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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