Beginning to learn Japanese

As Joshua and I set this space up, I’d like to look more at others who are using blogs or online journals for their own language learning. Especially at this point- different tools, tips for setting up the site. I’m thinking along the lines of an Audio RSS feed.

Here’s one example of a online language learning journal. Alaric Radosh who is studying Chinese not only keeps a chinese blog for practice, he also started a learning journal discussing how he’s going about self-study. I found this link via Language Hat who calls these sites ‘Linguablogs’. (?)

Mr Radosh also uses audio logging
Audioblogging in Chinese as a Second Language”.

He plans to write scripts for his audio posts, review them with a native speaker, then ‘perform’ the audio post.

“So, for a future audioblog post, I think I’ll write a script first and then check it out with a native speaker. I’ll see if the native speaker can read it out loud with fluency. If not, I’ll make some changes until they can. Then, I’ll record the native speaker reading my script and learn to speak the script imitating his or her phrasing, intonation etc. Finally, I’ll record myself “performing” the segment. I believe this procedure could help improve my spoken Chinese and, at the same time, produce a creative audio post.”

I’ll have to listen/read more later, I have to get back to setting this place up and getting rid of the bog-standard template.

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