Hello,

I was looking for a program or website where you could compare your pronunciation to that of a Japanese native speaker and work on your speech. It would be great if I could find such a game online that would help with intonation and to sound a bit more Japanese-like and reduce an English/foreign non-Japanese accent.

Even a voice recognition program where you read the sentences and try to make yourself understood by the software. I think it would be a fun addition to my self-study regime.

Thanks in advance for any replies. If you have tried any such thing please let me know your opinion. Thanks.

IceCream one wrote that RosettaStone has a good pronounciation practice (but it's "slow" to quote her (?))

Tori-kun Wrote:IceCream one wrote that RosettaStone has a good pronounciation practice (but it's "slow" to quote her (?))

Yep rosetta stone has pronunciation practice, but you can't talk too fast or it will automatically indicate it's wrong. It seems fairy accurate, atleast when it comes to the whole R/L thing, if it sounds too much like one or the other the program seems to notice it.

Thanks. I know Rosetta stone has this, however, its a bit too expensive to spend a few hundred dollars on a learning program. I just want to challenge myself with fun pronunciation games or exercises.

I'm at the intermediate phase reading Japanese magazines, writing blogs, and reading stories but I would like a fun way to practice other than reading aloud by myself with no pronunciation correction or comparison. So I thought it would be super fun to have a pronunciation game/program.

Any ideas? Thanks again (^_^)

this korean japanese dictionary site has the pronounciation. it's not a game but like you hear the correct pronounciation.

http://jpdic.naver.com/mini_entry_foreig...ryId=26794

Pronunciation game, if you have iPhone/iPod touch, go download Google translate. I found it last week, what it does is just translating text from a language to another.

What's cool is that the input text can either be typed, or spoken. And what's even cooler is that japanese (and chinese, for the interested) is on the "say it out loud" list.

Doesn't help you per-say learn the language, and not sure how good is google's recognition, but I know I had lots of fun trying to say any word I could think of

I didn't actually like the Rosetta Stone correction feature very much. It wasn't all that accurate, IMO. I could give it incorrect words, and it'd say okay. It does check some things. I think the older version was somewhat better.

No free pronunciation correction softwares?

just shadow or repeat the audio sometimes when you watch TV etc.