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| mrpootys Groupie United States Joined 5410 days ago 62 posts - 69 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 8 20 May 2011 at 6:06am | IP Logged |
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Ive been debating the idea of making my own recordings
for the languages that im studying. This would entail separate groups of themed vocabularies, and randomly input sentences. But, i was wondering if anyone would think it a bad idea, seeing as i would be studying my own pronunciation, and not a native speakers. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6381 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 2 of 8 20 May 2011 at 7:58am | IP Logged |
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My two cents: Would it be a bad idea? Yes. Would it be a very bad idea? No.
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| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5468 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 8 20 May 2011 at 8:05am | IP Logged |
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It seems like a mighty fine idea, since you can target the recordings precisely to your
own evolving needs. A purchased course will only address a general audience - it cannot possibly be aimed at you. Of course, it would be better to have a native speaker to make the recordings for you, but unless your accent is absolute incomprehensible then I do not see it being a problem. Accent is something you can improve over time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5810 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 4 of 8 20 May 2011 at 10:10am | IP Logged |
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There's always somewhere like www.rhinospike.com where you can ask for some of the sentences from natives.
There's plenty of "phrasebook" sites where you can find recordings of the typical learner phrases -- greetings, asking directions etc. And if you're looking for more sophisticated sentences, you can always "harvest" them from DVDs and podcasts. Recording yourself can be a bad idea if your pronunciation is too far off. Splog says "Accent is something you can improve over time," and this is true, but "accent" is not the same thing as "pronunciation". I'm currently studying French at university, and a fair few of my classmates don't make the distinction between the sounds of E, É and È. To them, E is a single letter representing a single sound. This is not an error in accent, and it won't fix itself later. It's a fundamental error in pronunciation which leads to learned errors. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| mrpootys Groupie United States Joined 5410 days ago 62 posts - 69 votes Speaks: English* | Message 5 of 8 20 May 2011 at 9:56pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you for the responses
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5180 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 6 of 8 20 May 2011 at 10:15pm | IP Logged |
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If I were you, considering the time it would take you to do the recordings, and the fact that you'd be listening to yourself, I would simply read the items outloud as I study. I can't see what advantage you'd get from listening to yourself as opposed to actually producing the sounds live. Do not underestimate the strong effect speaking itself has on listening skills.
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| davidhowell Newbie United States Joined 4888 days ago 13 posts - 28 votes Speaks: German | Message 7 of 8 02 November 2013 at 8:05am | IP Logged |
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I know this is an old topic, but recently I've also found myself recording readings. However, I'm doing it for the
purpose of improving my accent. I can hear what I'm saying and what I need to work on. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4243 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 8 of 8 06 November 2013 at 6:51am | IP Logged |
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I know at least 3 people who recorded themselves on YouTube speaking the languages they are learning and
showing others how they did it. The 1 with the most languages on the list: Moses McCormick from Akron Ohio, Steve Kauffman from Vancouver, Canada and Carlos Douh who picked up Cantonese in Hong Kong also lived in Vancouver who became an Internet celebrity by doing videos of Cantonese slangs. Recording yourself is good for personal review later. Uploading videos on YT allows other people to contribute their feedback. Edited by shk00design on 06 November 2013 at 6:52am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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