# How do you practice recording yourself with Genki? **URL:** \ **Category:** Japanese Language\ **Created:** [October 28, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-do-you-practice-recording-yourself-with-genki/39865 "2019-10-28T17:36:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![phredman98](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@phredman98](https://community.wanikani.com/u/phredman98)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-do-you-practice-recording-yourself-with-genki/39865/1 "2019-10-28T17:36:56Z")
I’m trying to use the Genki listening exercises to practice speaking aloud and shadowing. However, I find that using Audacity is a pain because you can’t quickly edit a mistake you made - you have to add a new track and copy and paste it in, etc etc. It really slows down my workflow. How did you guys practice shadowing and recording? ---
**Author:** ![Kumirei](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kumirei/32/480522_2.png) [@Kumirei](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kumirei)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-do-you-practice-recording-yourself-with-genki/39865/2 "2019-10-28T18:33:58Z")
Windows has a voice recorder app if that works ---
**Author:** ![RamenDutchman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/ramendutchman/32/268963_2.png) [@RamenDutchman](https://community.wanikani.com/u/RamenDutchman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-do-you-practice-recording-yourself-with-genki/39865/3 "2019-10-28T23:29:02Z")
EDIT Oh you want to be able to edit Genki’s recordings? I’ve only had experience with Fruity Loops as a music program, I can’t say it’s intuitive, though. (nor cheap unless your uni’s paying for it) I’m afraid I can’t help in that regard, but best of luck finding a good method! ORIGINAL Echo app ([https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.projectneon.echo](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.projectneon.echo)) 1. Hold the recording-button 2. Speak 3. Release the button (you now hear youself back 😃) You can also save the recordings, naturally 😉 The main benefit for me is ease of use; as soon as I let go I can immediately hear myself back, which makes it easier to use thus makes me use it more! ---
**Author:** ![Leebo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/leebo/32/439476_2.png) [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-do-you-practice-recording-yourself-with-genki/39865/4 "2019-10-28T23:35:35Z")
Am I understanding correctly that you want to edit things like… for instance if you said あした がこう に いきます, instead of あした がっこう に いきます, you would want to snip out がこう and replace it with がっこう? Why not just re-record the whole sentence? ---
**Author:** ![phredman98](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@phredman98](https://community.wanikani.com/u/phredman98)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-do-you-practice-recording-yourself-with-genki/39865/5 "2019-10-31T14:52:59Z")
I do want to re-record the whole sentence, but the genki recordings make you say one sentence after another, so I end up with ~15 sentences in a row. I just want to fix 1 sentence at a time instead of re-recording all 15 sentences. ---
**Author:** ![Bag\_of\_Dragonite](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/bag_of_dragonite/32/270208_2.png) [@Bag\_of\_Dragonite](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Bag_of_Dragonite)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-do-you-practice-recording-yourself-with-genki/39865/6 "2019-10-31T15:14:28Z")
Maybe use Garageband, it’s free. A lot of audio editors have punch-in recording. So it only records when you punch in for a segment of the audio (You set the start and end point of the punch in and punch out so no other audio gets affected). I’m not 100% if I understand your needs but that may be the feature you’re looking for in whatever audio editor you use. Some editors also have looped-take recording where you can setup a loop segment and record yourself multiple times doing the same segment and then choose the best take at the end, or combine takes. ---
**Author:** ![phredman98](https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wanikanicommunity/original/3X/f/d/fd4c154120954695f788402f3bcf4e616499bc2d.png) [@phredman98](https://community.wanikani.com/u/phredman98)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-do-you-practice-recording-yourself-with-genki/39865/7 "2019-10-31T16:48:28Z")
Unfortunately I don’t have a mac 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Bag\_of\_Dragonite](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/bag_of_dragonite/32/270208_2.png) [@Bag\_of\_Dragonite](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Bag_of_Dragonite)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-do-you-practice-recording-yourself-with-genki/39865/8 "2019-10-31T16:57:42Z")
I see. I think you can run Garageband on windows using VMWare. I think theres many free ways to run other operating systems on your current operating system. But the easiest thing would be to get a free windows audio editor. Maybe see if audacity has punch-in or loop recording before considering switching to another program. EDIT: I just googled it. Apparently Audacity is capable of both punch-in recording and loop recording so you should be all good. Watch some youtube tutorials to see how it works. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/6/2/a/62a8b0f4c59ff2c5b6651ffcf43531480b3e5297.png) [@system](https://community.wanikani.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-do-you-practice-recording-yourself-with-genki/39865/9 "2020-10-30T16:57:43Z")
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