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The Problems with Listening-Reading L-R | ||
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| Toriyama Newbie United States Joined 5524 days ago 12 posts - 42 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 18 of 64 09 August 2013 at 9:33am | IP Logged | |||||
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Crush,
Are you asking if all of the texts will be originally in the target language? That is ideal, but not a requirement for us. I am looking into the possibility of offering the platform in languages other than English. For example, Spanish speakers can use it to learn English. The entire interface must be translated into each language of course, so that will be a gradual process. erenko, There is only good news to report about the project. Everything is going incredibly well and it has certainly kept me busy, explaining my absence from the forum. Alpha testing begins soon and the beta test is not far off. Expect to be using the software by early September on your phone, tablet, or computer. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5661 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 19 of 64 09 August 2013 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I was just asking if there would be support for language pairs that don't include English, like Spanish-French, German-Russian, etc. I look forward to seeing how it turns out and repeat my desire to help out however i can :)
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| BlaBla Triglot Groupie Spain Joined 3925 days ago 45 posts - 72 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Nepali, Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin | Message 20 of 64 10 August 2013 at 4:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I personally don't feel the need for professional actors but usually start producing my own audio files as
soon as my pronounciation is good enough. This way I can move on with texts I'm really intererested in, instead of relying on stuff that would make me sleep in no time. As always, YMMV. Edited by BlaBla on 10 August 2013 at 4:38pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| BlaBla Triglot Groupie Spain Joined 3925 days ago 45 posts - 72 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Nepali, Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin | Message 22 of 64 11 August 2013 at 8:29am | IP Logged | |||||
I first read my texts into my recording device and start L-R'ing when I've finished the recording job. This additional step has helped me tremendously with my pronounciation as well as my general speaking abilities, probably more than shadowing. Well invested time if you ask me and certainly more fun than editing the lengthy accompanying texts. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| BlaBla Triglot Groupie Spain Joined 3925 days ago 45 posts - 72 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Nepali, Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin | Message 24 of 64 11 August 2013 at 1:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
I said 'texts', generally extensive scientific stuff that I'm pretty familiar with content wise, pretty heavy on cognates and most of it centered around my rather exotic job, which I prefer to keep private. The whole point of LR as I understand it is exposure to contents you're supposed to be familiar with (Step one), preferably passionate about - presented in a different language (L2) - Spanish in my case. I'm somewhere around A2 these days, eagerly working my way toward C1 so I don't run into too many obstacles during my recordings. It would be a different story with more belletristic contents though. It's not exactly orthodox LR but it sure helps to accelerate my progress and that's what I'm mainly concerned about. Rule #1: There are no rules ! Edited by BlaBla on 11 August 2013 at 1:59pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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