What is your opinion on LingQ checking Mandarin pronunciation in sentence mode? Is it useful? Does it need to be tweaked? Do you use other options when you want your pronunciation checked?
I havenāt found it useful tbh. The voice is very robotic. The ę¾éčÆå¦ä¹ app is good for drilling pronunciation, but very boring. I think extensive listening might be a key component, but I donāt know what to listen to
I did try LingQās dictation exercise when it first came out on iOS but its comprehension was poor and there was no meaningful feedback. I assume this feature just harnessed the systemās built in dictation functionality. Iāve never tried it again and consider it waste of time, together with all the other exercises, study sentence and vocabulary review - while probably not harmful, I fail to see how those relate to language learning. I guess LingQ is trying to compete with the and friends. Personally I just try to get in as much listening and reading as possible. As for more deliberate modes of practice, and especially for computerized pronunciation assessment I recommend: Speech Studio While it is obviously meant to be implemented in an application, the web interface works fine as well and will give actual feedback. I suspect that there are already many āpronunciation appsā on the various app stores that make use of it.