Jinchi Nihongo Tutorial Class

Pronunciation can be quite tricky when learning a new language, especially for adults. You’ll have to replicate lots of new strange sounds that are completely unknown to you. The language you are learning may have the same alphabet, but some letters will have an entirely different pronunciation. This can be confusing in the beginning, because it looks like words are not pronounced the way they should.

Why is it important? One of the reasons is that Pronunciation forces you to listen to speakers more carefully, focusing on how they make the right sounds when they speak. By listening to how natural sentences sound, you are more likely to make them yourself. Besides, the more you listen to these sentences, the easier it becomes for you to understand and get used to them.

Recording your voice and then listening back to it has lots of benefits when working on improving your speaking. It’s only when we can listen back to something we have said that we get a real understanding of our fluency, accuracy and naturalness.

While speaking, we may be aware of little grammatical mistakes we make or that we feel more fluent in some parts of the conversation we are having than at others. We won’t be aware of more than this though because speaking and thinking what to say next takes up most of our brain’s capacity.

In this video, Arleen-san who studied with Jinchi for only two months or 64 hours was able to take advantage of self recording with her self-introduction practice in Japanese Language while inviting everyone to be her friend. 😊