Fluent Forever VS ELSA Speak

Fluent Forever Reviews

ELSA Speak Reviews

Fluent Forever mentions (6)

• I need a detailed guide with all Italian sounds supplemented by audios or videos.

  You might want to check out the Fluent Forever learning model and their app. Their pronunciation trainer does something similar to what you're talking about. Source: 11 months ago

• Experience with 625 Fluent Forever words in a weekend. Image -> Irish

  I read the book Fluent Forever and it recommends Anki so I thought I would try it. It says use images as a setup to avoid trying to translate in your head. And has 625 common and fairly concrete words to start people off. Source: about 1 year ago

• Anki SRS Algorithm

  You might find this app relevant, one of the ideas behind it is that by selecting your own images the concepts stick better: https://fluent-forever.com/index.html. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Best methods for accent reduction?

  A way to become aware of these subtle differences is practicing minimal pairs. I recommend Fluent Forever (https://fluent-forever.com/index.html), which I'm using. They have a 14 day free trial period and that's enough time for you to go through their listening and pronunciation section. You also learn the relevant parts of IPA for your TL while doing this. Source: over 1 year ago

• The idea that western methods are better at teaching Japanese than the methods used in the Japanese education system

  I subscribed for the free trial, and see if I can stick to it. Https://fluent-forever.com/app/. Source: about 3 years ago

ELSA Speak mentions (10)

• How do I teach my mom how to pronounce TH?

  Also, Elsa Speak may be helpful for your mom. Source: 5 months ago

• Intonation and pronunciation

  There is an app called ELSA Speak where you can work with pronunciation and partly Intonation. I used it a little, and it seems to work. Source: 11 months ago

• Cantonese Font with Pronunciation

  As many have pointed here Mandarin, Thai, Cantonese and Vietnam are tonal languages and the meaning of words are depending on how you speak the syllables inside the words. Mandarin has four, Thai has five, Cantonese has six and Vitnamese has six tones. Overall about 20% or 1.5 billion of the world's population converse daily in tonal languages. It will be very helpful if someone come up with automatic tonal... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• How can I improve my accent online?

  Https://elsaspeak.com/en/ is an app with focus on pronunciation. Not sure though if it's possible to set the focus on American English, but maybe still worth a try. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: How to get better at spoken English?

  There are many apps now that can check, validate and rate your language speaking and pronunciations for example ELSA Speak [1]. They provide virtual personal tutor experiences for speaking English correctly. Never tried it myself and not affiliated with the app but ELSA has some good reviews on some videos that I've seen. I think it can be very good practice assistant for any country that learn English by default... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago