How to chorus?

[jeff_lindqvist]

I like your advice about the intonation matching the recordings. I was focusing on individual words and neglecting the intonation.

Each method has its value, but I prefer to focus on sentence level. That's how people speak. Not one-word-at-a-time.

I think Glossika will give enough intonation patterns. I have been listening to Glossika French and Italian, and the intonation sounds right to my ears on each phrase.

Oh yes. In one of the older videos (long before the formal Glossika method was out there) he was talking about working with a large number of sentences, and how pronunciation on sentence level is different.

[jeff_lindqvist]

I just stumbled on a video with an American guy called Chris who presents the method in five steps. In Chinese.

[mentecuerpo]

I've been experimenting with trying to imitate audio on a loop in Audacity, and I've found that it's hard to do more than a couple words at a time. I also tried an audiobook from librivox, but it was too face paced and difficult to understand. For now I've been experimenting with the song All'alba Sorgerò. It seems to be a little slower paced, probably due to being set to music. Hopefully that doesn't make it useless.

http://www.workaudiobook.com/
Check out this tool made for language learners. It is a free and clean download. And I love it. This software breaks the audio in phrases, and you can also select the start of the words and even break it into individual words if you want, the sentence can loop until you get the sound right, I think is excellent for chorus.

[mentecuerpo]

I just stumbled on a video with an American guy called Chris who presents the method in five steps. In Chinese.

38K views since 11/17, impressive.
It is good that his video has subtitles. I watched it as I read the captions.
I find the video helpful.

Amazing fluency on this guy, it gives me hope with my English and German.
I should probably download his 30 English phrases and work on my English; it is never too late!
It is interesting what he says about people judging you by your accent. It is true, unfortunately.

I see that it requires many repetitions, hours of them.
Just 30 sentences, repeated multiple times.
The problem, how do we know which sentences are representative of all the sounds?
I think that the solution for me is to do more than 30 phrases, like the Glossika style.

Another question, reading is not part of it, just listening and mimicking. I see that Glossika gives the text of the phrases which can be distracting to do the chorus as I read along.