#poor audio quality

[circularcatinspace]

POV: mods

(Sorry, bad audio quality, but you get it)

[stoshasaurus]

speaking of Osiris (and Saint-14)

[corvid-language-library]

I see you talk about shadowing as a language learning method. I understand it had something to do with YT videos? Can you tell a bit more about that, how does it work and how did you come up with it?

Hi there!

Shadowing is where you listen to a language and simultaneously attempt to repeat what you hear - mimicking sounds and intonation - even if you don't understand it right away. By mimicking native speakers this way you acquire more native-like pronunciation while also (ideally) absorbing vocabulary and sentence patterns and grammar structures. I think this article explains it a lot better than I probably can!

The recommended way to do this is using audiobooks or podcasts with transcripts, but the reason I started doing this is because I would watch YT videos about useful phrases for daily life or videos about my target grammar, but I'd forget the sentences almost immediately and then have to find the motivation to sit down and rewatch an entire video, sometimes multiple times. "If only there were a way I could listen to the target sentences constantly and just practice parroting them back!" I found myself thinking. "It'd be so much more efficient than looking them up every single time or having to rewatch a whole 20-minute video!"

And then I realised I could literally just use Audacity (free audio recording/editing software!) and record from my laptop speakers myself.

So, I've been going on Youtube, watching various grammar videos and then recording sentences I want to learn from those videos. I record at natural speed first, then at 0.5x playback and then again at 0.75x playback. I then edit it together with two seconds between each recording and a repeat at each speed (plus one final repeat at normal speed). So an audio looks like:

1) Normal speed 2 second break 2) 50% speed 2 second break 3) 75% speed 2 second break 4) Normal speed 2 second break 5) 50% speed 2 second break 6) 75% speed 2 second break 7) Normal speed

Sometimes for shorter sentences, I don't bother to slow the audio down, so I'll just have it repeat 5-6 times at normal speed.

Once I've recorded everything and edited it together, I put the mp3 on my phone. I have a few different playlists (each one around 10-15 minutes in length) - some for specific grammar, some for specific situations (eg shopping, izakaya) - and I usually just stick one on repeat while I'm walking somewhere or doing some kind of menial task that doesn't otherwise engage my brain (doing dishes, ironing, making materials for work etc). And then I do my best to mimic what I'm hearing just behind the speaker (or along with the speaker). Usually the first few times I listen to a track I just try to speak along with the slower versions, or maybe just mimic the specific target structure. As I hear it more and more, eventually I can speak along with the audio word for word and focus more on my intonation.

I've found it helpful so far because it helps me learn sentences while building the muscle memory of how to say certain words/grammar. I can much more easily recall a sentence I've heard on repeat/practiced saying a hundred times than one I've heard in a video once and written down in a notebook somewhere. And if I can recall a sentence, I can substitute words using correct grammar rather than trying to figure out how to say something from scratch (and hopefully choose the correct option on the JLPT when the time comes!)

Hope that answers your question! Feel free to send more 😊

[wolfinplainsight]

Please tf2 fandom… forgive me for making this….

Consider it a gift to my wonderful @willowoop, the only reason I’m in this fandom in the first place

[psychangels]

here's the hideout in its finished form! figured i'd do a little tour video of it. :]

[the-final-high-noon-rings]

i love the noisiness of ouatis... like yessss add more accordion and harmonica and viola and guitar. MORE NOISES!!!!!

[i-may-be-an-emu]

THE LIGHTHOUSE IS SO FUNNY AAAAAAAAA

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Gantober #5 - Surface Tension

Cheating again today, and introducing a WIP track from Thralls' Episode 2!! It has a fine sprinkling of Ganondorf in it, so I will arbitrarily decides that it counts!!

It's not finished and it will be much longer, but Things sure are happening in this scene and I'm curious to see if you can guess what they are :D

[snzluv3r]

honest to god you have to give us an emergency wav

HAHA will you care if there’s air conditioner noise in the background? everything i’ve recorded has fan/AC noise in the background and i feel bad bc the audio quality is kinda ass

[marthafanaamay]

Canon Luci vs Vox fight

Okay, I love fanon ships and all (I ship all day everyday), but I find it so funny how much fanon art there is of Lucifer and Vox fighting for Alastor's love when in canon that would literally never happen. Vox wants Al and would definitely square up against the King himself to "win" Alastor's love, but Lucifer has no real canonical interest in Alastor (he doesn't even like him lol). The way their fight would go in canon is Vox getting the wrong idea and demanding Lucifer fight him, saying shit like "you could never love him as much as meeeeeee". Meanwhile, Lucifer is just so not interested in whatever Vox is on about. Luci would just be like "bruh, you can have him, I don't want him, just stop harassing my daughter and her hotel guests". But, Vox wouldn't leave the hotel alone, so Lucifer finally goes out to kick his ass. And of course Luci wouldn't even break a sweat, he'd just be smacking Vox around all while Vox keeps insisting he's fighting for his love and Lucifer is just like "just take him and leave already " getting more frustrated by the minute. It would be so funny omg. And you just KNOW that Angel and Husk would be sitting on the sidelines wolfing down popcorn. LMAO

Vox: "You don't deserve him!"

Lucifer : "How many times do I have to tell you I DON'T WANT HIM!"

[all-thestories-aretrue]

Re-listening to ep 1 of PoN for funsies and because I can tell Neil apart from Johnny now

[emeritusterzo]

I owe every good thing in my life to people who haven’t taken down those collective blogs that put full hardcore albums and eps to download

[lunarcigar]

Just started the magnus archives, love love love the weird lovecraftian horror and the mcs voice but holy fuck does the audio quality get better??? Because….. I don’t know if I can handle 200 episodes of a podcast with this terrible audio

[eggswords]

Was feeling bored and decided to throw together Pebble's music pearl on the piano in the span of five minutes

[moghedien]

the post episode 6 mood is just me listening to this ironically but also unironically