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HiNative mentions (12)

• Is there any possible way to live in Japan temporarily while gaining income?

  For language, try to memorize basic phrases on your flight. Trust Google maps for directions. Google translate can be kinda mid. I used hiNative & lingoza pretty much every day. Anki is nice once you want to really learn vocab after mastering day to day phrases. Source: 11 months ago

• I can (FINALLY) quit!

  No I can't carry a conversation, yet. I can start but I can't keep it going haha. I used: r/LearnFinnish, https://uusikielemme.fi/finnish-grammar and hinative.com. I also have a grammar book (but it is in Swedish). Source: about 1 year ago

• Selamat! Looking to learn bahasa Indonesian before I come in august!

  Here's 1 recommended app called HiNative for you to learn not just words, but also learn about how to pronounce those words. It's available on both Android Play Store and Apple App Store. Been using it to learn portugese and I improve my vocab faster there. Source: about 1 year ago

• Volunteering in Catania in August

  You can also ask local people questions before you travel on platforms like HiNative and Couchsurfing. Source: about 1 year ago

• ADHD and Learning a 2nd Language - PLZ HALP!

  Today, for words I use a monolingual dictionary as much as possible (often you end up needing to look up many words in a chain to figure out your initial word, but that doesn't bother me so much for whatever reason); I see this also as reading practice. I'll also use https://www.reverso.net/ for short phrases if they don't seem to make sense despite thinking I know each word or structure. Additionally, I have a... Source: about 1 year 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: 6 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: about 1 year 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 / about 1 year 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