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| Raчraч Ŋuɲa Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 5818 days ago 154 posts - 233 votes  Speaks: Bikol languages*, Tagalog, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, Russian, Japanese | Message 1 of 5 12 April 2009 at 1:19am | IP Logged |
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I've come accross HVPT (High Variability Phonetic Training) while surfing the net today. This post says that "This is a simple method for teaching people to distinguish foreign-language sounds that they find difficult. The basic idea is incredibly straightforward: lots of practice in forced-choice identification of minimal pairs, with immediate feedback, using recordings from multiple speakers." The post gave a few examples, more explanations and a lot of comments. I thought this technique is better than passive listening if my purpose is to learn the phonetics of a new language.
I've searched this forum and it seems no one has come across this before. Any thoughts? Edited by Raчraч Ŋuɲa on 12 April 2009 at 3:33am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6372 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 5 12 April 2009 at 4:33am | IP Logged |
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That looks great!
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| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6186 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 5 12 April 2009 at 8:00am | IP Logged |
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For making new sounds I can recommend learning to beatbox as a method. Because of it I learned to roll my tongue, make my mouth into various shapes to make vowels, and also learn tongue positions for certain consonants, particularly in Mongolian. Although beatboxing does tend to take a while to learn though...
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| crackpot Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6301 days ago 144 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 4 of 5 12 April 2009 at 12:37pm | IP Logged |
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qklilx, can you elaborate a bit more on 'beatbox'?
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 5 of 5 12 April 2009 at 4:15pm | IP Logged |
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I've always been in the active camp -- learn to say it and you'll learn to hear it.
However, I'm intrigued by the concept described. The reason no-one uses it? Well I reckon it needs more intensity and immediate feedback than you can get working with a teacher. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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