I was thinking of, each time I finish a Japanese reading passage, I record myself reading the passage out loud, and then later on just listen to the audio (in the car or wherever) without the printed version in front of me.

This would solve the problem of not having an "audiobook" for everything I practice my reading with, but I'm not sure about listening to myself reading it. It might reinforce pronunciation errors.

What do others think?

I can't imagine that this would improve one's listening skills one iota.

As an aside, I tend to find that reading aloud impairs comprehension, though it's undoubtedly useful for speaking/pronunciation practice, and provides some auditory reinforcement for vocab/readings.

Hmm, I'm not sure.
If you're using a digital resource, maybe some kind of text-to-voice thing would be safer? Listening to yourself recorded is always horrible anyway.

This is for listening practice? If so I think you might as well just find a better source for it. If it's to review a textbook or something it might be a good idea though. But then again it might just be easier to find resources that already have this stuff built in and use them instead, if you think it's important.

I believe there's a guy on YouTube called Glossika that does a method similar. I believe he calls it the mass sentence method. From what I remember he would read a sentence record himself speaking it then listen to it later. He did have a video up but I believe he deleted his old channel.

Recording your own voice is very helpful to improve pronunciation, and reading aloud is also very useful for the same reason. It takes a while to get used to reading aloud and understanding but then it gets better.

Using your recorded voice for listening practice may be a good idea if you already got rid of pronunciation issues, otherwise yes, I think it could reinforce them.

I don't think it's productive to use your own voice for listening practice. If you can get a native speaker to read it that's great, but don't use any text-to-voice or foreign accented Japanese for listening practice.

If you record your own voice you can use it to improve your pronunciation, if you find it hard to pay attention to how you pronounce things while you are speaking. Playing it back can help you to notice more about your speech.

However, definitely, if you want to improve your accent and intonation, you should listen to lots of native speech too.

if you want to improve your ability to speak longer and more fluent sentences, then reading from a passage is not going to be that helpful, you need to practise making up your own sentences or passages 'on the fly' and do it everyday.

This sounds like a very good method to fossilize funky pronunciation. Recording your own voice isn't a bad idea, but you need to have native pronunciation somewhere in the loop in order to check your own pronunciation against.

blackbrich Wrote:I believe there's a guy on YouTube called Glossika that does a method similar. I believe he calls it the mass sentence method. From what I remember he would read a sentence record himself speaking it then listen to it later. He did have a video up but I believe he deleted his old channel.

Glossika is now a line of products built around the mass sentence method, with native speakers reading the sentences. I'm considering using this to tackle Mandarin.

http://www.glossika.com/

gaiaslastlaugh,

if you're into sentences:
http://www.zhongwenred.com/lessonsoneten.htm
if you're into dialogues as well
chinesepod.com (ask Miss Rutracker)
if you're into novels:
there used to be a Mandarin resources thread somewhere here, I posted plenty of good stuff there.

Thats a good idea, i'm gonna give that a shot. But I will probably post my sentences on rhinospike.com to get a native speaker pronunciation, or I could even ask my tutor.