IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6440 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 1 of 8 18 November 2009 at 5:59am | IP Logged |
Wow, they don't give you much room in the subject field here. I tried to fit "Has anyone tried "Pronounce it Perfectly in ___"? but it wouldn't even come close to fitting.
Anyway, has anyone used these? I did a search for "pronounce it perfectly in" but it said "no results returned."
Are they good programs for accent reduction in your target language?
Thanks.
edit - is the search function broken? I searched for "Pronounce perfectly" again after I made this thread and it still said "no results." Hmm...
Edited by IronFist on 18 November 2009 at 6:02am
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Gusutafu Senior Member Sweden Joined 5524 days ago 655 posts - 1039 votes Speaks: Swedish*
| Message 2 of 8 18 November 2009 at 11:28am | IP Logged |
I seem to remember that I tried it out for Japanese, and that it didn't do much. I may be confusing it with something similar sounding. Perhaps you can try it out before you buy it.
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pfwillard Pro Member United States Joined 5702 days ago 169 posts - 205 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map
| Message 3 of 8 18 November 2009 at 11:07pm | IP Logged |
I'm working with their French CDs. It's a decent 3 disk package with native speakers and good examples. My only criticism is my peevishness about having unnecessary English on a language learning audio program.
There was a Pronounce it Perfectly in Japanese sold by Barron's in the 90's, but unless it has been recently updated, I would not recommend it.
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IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6440 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 4 of 8 19 November 2009 at 2:06am | IP Logged |
pfwillard wrote:
There was a Pronounce it Perfectly in Japanese sold by Barron's in the 90's, but unless it has been recently updated, I would not recommend it.
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That's the one I was interested in. Why wouldn't you recommend it?
They need to make a Korean one. Korean pronunciation still kills me.
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fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7149 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto
| Message 5 of 8 20 November 2009 at 7:16am | IP Logged |
I have Pronounce it Perfectly in Russian. I haven't used it yet. I had a similar program from Russia but couldn't play the cassettes so I got this one. My hard and soft L still need work and it won't hurt for me to practise all the sounds.
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uncrebel11 Newbie United States Joined 5508 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish Studies: Russian
| Message 6 of 8 24 November 2009 at 9:18pm | IP Logged |
I also have Pronounce It Perfectly in Russian. I've heard very good reviews about it but have not begun to use it. I plan to after a get a good base of knowledge first. It is widely available on p2p resources.
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pfwillard Pro Member United States Joined 5702 days ago 169 posts - 205 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map
| Message 7 of 8 25 November 2009 at 9:20pm | IP Logged |
IronFist wrote:
pfwillard wrote:
There was a Pronounce it Perfectly in Japanese sold by Barron's in the 90's, but unless it has been recently updated, I would not recommend it.
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That's the one I was interested in. Why wouldn't you recommend it?
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It's not a criticism of the program, it's just there are so many programs coming out of Japan right now that I don't see any reason to spend time with it. If you have it already or can get it for cheap though, by all means.
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IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6440 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 8 of 8 01 December 2009 at 2:33am | IP Logged |
pfwillard wrote:
IronFist wrote:
pfwillard wrote:
There was a Pronounce it Perfectly in Japanese sold by Barron's in the 90's, but unless it has been recently updated, I would not recommend it.
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That's the one I was interested in. Why wouldn't you recommend it?
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It's not a criticism of the program, it's just there are so many programs coming out of Japan right now that I don't see any reason to spend time with it. If you have it already or can get it for cheap though, by all means.
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I'm thinking about jumping back into Japanese. What programs coming out of Japan are good right now??
Thanks!
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