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Vocab practice idea I thought I’d share | ||
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| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3717 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 1 of 10 01 June 2014 at 7:23pm | IP Logged |
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I'm sure someone on here has thought of this already. The idea is to use a flashcard program (Quizlet, Anki, etc) that speaks the words on your vocab deck. Using Audacity (or another audio recording program) you can set it to record directly from your sound card. Hit record, then go to your deck, play the English (or native language) first, then flip the card to play the word in your target language. Do this throughout the deck and viola - you now have an audio file that goes through an entire deck of words that you created that you can practice in your car, during a walk, wherever. And you can manipulate the audio to fit your needs (i.e. say English word once, say TL word twice, after one round have it only say English and you have to repeat the word in your TL). It's like a homemade Pimsleur for your custom vocab lists and shouldn't take long to create one for each list.
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4331 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 2 of 10 02 June 2014 at 2:13am | IP Logged |
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You could easily automatize this, no need for manually going through the deck.
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| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3717 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 3 of 10 02 June 2014 at 2:43am | IP Logged |
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Oh, I just noticed Quizlet has a "play" feature that essentially does this. I assume Anki has something like it too. Oh well, I'm sure this can be of some other use to create your own audio. Edited by soclydeza85 on 02 June 2014 at 2:44am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7048 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog | Message 4 of 10 02 June 2014 at 3:13pm | IP Logged |
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yes you can record in anki also
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| pingvin10 Groupie Hungary Joined 6088 days ago 68 posts - 114 votes Speaks: Hungarian* Studies: English, German, Spanish, Turkish | Message 5 of 10 04 June 2014 at 2:59am | IP Logged |
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Just use Flashcards Deluxe.
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| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3717 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 6 of 10 04 June 2014 at 2:40pm | IP Logged |
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The whole point of the idea was to make tracks for yourself that you can put on a CD or ipod/mp3 player so you can drive/walk/whatever without having to fiddle with an app or program. I do value your suggestions though and I'll be sure to check out some of the other notecard programs to see what kind of features they have.
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| chokofingrz Pentaglot Senior Member England Joined 4999 days ago 241 posts - 430 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Japanese, Catalan, Luxembourgish | Message 7 of 10 04 June 2014 at 11:30pm | IP Logged |
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To people who have already done it: is it more efficient to record your own pronunciations into your Anki deck, or to obtain and link mp3 files from Forvo or Google TTS?
I imagine I might save time by doing them myself, but with the risk of perpetuating any mistakes I've been making. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6719 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 10 04 June 2014 at 11:43pm | IP Logged |
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Chances are that the Forvo recording are done by native speakers (=better pronunciation, no doubt).
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