I was wondering if anybody knew of a website or app where it is possible to upload audio or video recordings of yourself in Japanese and get feedback on it? Like Lang8 but for spoken language!
Such a platform would be AMAZING since I am really complexed about my Japanese speakingā¦ I can understand and read and write at a very high levelā¦ But my speaking, omg! x) (I heard a recording of myself today and was shocked haha. Itās like itās all chopped off and itās overall not really clear!) I never had problems speaking with Japanese people, but still, it bugs meā¦
So if you know of any tips or anythingā¦ Thanks !!
Oh that seems really cool! I submitted some recordings, canāt wait to see the kind of feedback I will get ^^ Itās a shame itās not community based and a bit restricted (like, I think they only correct pronunciation and donāt care if you make mistakesā¦) but oh well
But it needs to stay within the course you are doing, right? I just signed up and they only let me say things like ććć«ć”ćÆ haha ^^ Do you actually use it for speaking practice?
Iāve barely ever used it. From what I remember, yeah it was mostly text. But you can voice call people too, and leave recordings in your posts. Remember seeing some people asking to have their pronunciations critiqued.
I think one issue is it takes way longer to give feedback on speech than on other things. And it really helps if the person is also recording their voice while they listen and can immediately contrast with yours. This makes it hard to do it as a āeveryone just help a bitā type website because doing it in a meaningful way is such a pain.
I can see someone doing a YouTube channel or something devoted to this, but then of course the output would be low.
Right, itās true that it seems difficultā¦ But when I see the number of people who is so devoted in websites like Lang8, I donāt see why there couldnāt be the same thing for spoken language! Of course, a limit of time or something for recordings would be needed, and the corrections should be given with another audio recording or a mix of written and audio comments, but other than that I donāt see why correcting spoken language would take more time than for written texts really. I mean, I would love to give such feedback for people learning French if there was that kind of system!
I guess if you made a site like this, you would add features to streamline getting audio on there. I was stuck on imagining correcting someoneās speech by audio on a forum like this. You would need separate software and a place to upload it. But yeah, I guess such a site would take care of that for you. I still think the effort level is higher, but itās not quite as bad as my first thought.
tbqh, I actually havenāt used it in a long time. I kno in years past you could request a āchatā pal (rather than penpal) and you could send audio messages of whatever. Have you tried the desktop website? There might be a way to do it via the full site and not the app. Iām not sure though.
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