That was great. I have used Audacity in the past for minor home video audio editing but had not considered it for Chinese study. Will have to download it again.
2 Questions only- What difers this program from a standard soundforge 7.0 audioprogram? And how do I listen to myself without knowing if I am pronouncing well chinese or not , in comparison to what......xiexie
1. No idea, as I've never tried Sound Forge, but the most obvious difference is that Audacity is open source and free, maybe? 2. You compare with a model native speaker you're mimicking. This video is very, very old, so it's not very good at showing this, but it's often possible to hear when your voice is different from the target model if you play them on-top of each other. This is covered much better in the pronunciation course I launched earlier this year: www.hackingchinese.com/courses/mandarin-chinese-pronunciation-course/
If I had access to a good video editing program and a few extra hours to spare, I would have removed it, but I don't think it seriously influences the quality of the video, so I didn't. At normal volume, I hardly hear the buzz.
Hello brother Olle , first , a big and huge thanks to you , this blog is a gold mine when it comes to learning Chinese i really appreciate your hard work and everything you provide for the hacking Chinese community , brother Olle i searched all the net for a tool or something to sort Chinese characters and words based on the pinyin TONES , but i did only find your script which eventually i don't how to execute ... i want to ask you kindly to make for us a blog post or a TH-cam video explaining how to sort Chinese words or characters based on their tones with the script your friend has made for you , you had given the link to the script on github in your blog post : www.hackingchinese.com/focusing-on-tone-pairs-to-improve-your-mandarin-pronunciation/?replytocom=60294#respond i really need you to do a quick tutorial on how you sorted the HSK words lists based on TONE pairs (starting with single syllables tones 1,2,3,4,5 and then sorting words based on the famous TONE pairs (1,1 ...1,5 .... then 4,1 ...4,5 and so on ) 20 combinations in total , or 19 (2,3)=(3,3) sorry for bothering you brother with this request , i,m a 19 years old Moroccan, no universities here or nothing to learn Chinese so i'm learning on my own , i hope you can make something explaining that scrip (i'm a programming newbie , i don't know how to handle scripts i tried many ways from TH-cam.... but it seems i'm stuck ) i have read almost all the articles on this website i hope someday we can meet this is the first time i ask a question on your blog , best regard bro .
This is an old video! I have a newer, much better video about mimicking native speakers in Audacity here: th-cam.com/video/AMx6A_EMXwI/w-d-xo.html
Thank you so much for this tutorial, so helpful!
It's a bit old now, but Audacity still works roughly the same way! Glad you found it helpful!
Didn't know that you could record youself while the main audio is playing. Thank you for the information - that's realy useful to know.
This was awesome, and extremely helpful. I really appreciate your time putting this together, can't wait to try it out with my Chinese study.
That was great. I have used Audacity in the past for minor home video audio editing but had not considered it for Chinese study. Will have to download it again.
Great video, thank you!!! I'm learning japanese and I was looking for the way to practice hearing and speaking!!!
2 Questions only- What difers this program from a standard soundforge 7.0 audioprogram? And how do I listen to myself without knowing if I am pronouncing well chinese or not , in comparison to what......xiexie
1. No idea, as I've never tried Sound Forge, but the most obvious difference is that Audacity is open source and free, maybe?
2. You compare with a model native speaker you're mimicking. This video is very, very old, so it's not very good at showing this, but it's often possible to hear when your voice is different from the target model if you play them on-top of each other. This is covered much better in the pronunciation course I launched earlier this year: www.hackingchinese.com/courses/mandarin-chinese-pronunciation-course/
If I had access to a good video editing program and a few extra hours to spare, I would have removed it, but I don't think it seriously influences the quality of the video, so I didn't. At normal volume, I hardly hear the buzz.
Hello brother Olle ,
first , a big and huge thanks to you , this blog is a gold mine when it comes to learning Chinese i really appreciate your hard work and everything you provide for the hacking Chinese community ,
brother Olle i searched all the net for a tool or something to sort Chinese characters and words based on the pinyin TONES , but i did only find your script which eventually i don't how to execute ...
i want to ask you kindly to make for us a blog post or a TH-cam video explaining how to sort Chinese words or characters based on their tones with the script your friend has made for you , you had given the link to the script on github in your blog post :
www.hackingchinese.com/focusing-on-tone-pairs-to-improve-your-mandarin-pronunciation/?replytocom=60294#respond
i really need you to do a quick tutorial on how you sorted the HSK words lists based on TONE pairs (starting with single syllables tones 1,2,3,4,5
and then sorting words based on the famous TONE pairs (1,1 ...1,5 .... then 4,1 ...4,5 and so on ) 20 combinations in total , or 19 (2,3)=(3,3)
sorry for bothering you brother with this request , i,m a 19 years old Moroccan, no universities here or nothing to learn Chinese so i'm learning on my own , i hope you can make something explaining that scrip (i'm a programming newbie , i don't know how to handle scripts i tried many ways from TH-cam.... but it seems i'm stuck )
i have read almost all the articles on this website
i hope someday we can meet
this is the first time i ask a question on your blog ,
best regard bro .