Chorusing is a slightly strange, but very useful technique for practicing pronunciation, rhythm, common phrases and more. The gist is that you take an audio clip and repeat along with it, many times in a row, until you sound very similar! You can even record your voice and analyze it after to find areas for improvement.
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Chorusing is a slightly strange, but very useful technique for practicing pronunciation, rhythm, common phrases and more. The gist is that you take an audio clip and repeat along with it, many times in a row, until you sound very similar! You can even record your voice and analyze it after to find areas for improvement.
Train listening
pronunciation
prosody and tone all at once
Effective in small amounts
Great for training sentence chunks
Chorusing is one of the best activities you can do for improving your speaking and listening. It's incredibly powerful, but a bit of a task to set up. Chorusing is the act of taking an audio clip (somewhere between 3 and 15 seconds) and repeating it over and over until you can say it just like the native speaker.
As you're preparing to start speaking and/or while working on your listening, chorusing is immensely beneficial. It's also great to continue doing as you build an output routine. Once you're established and feel confident with output, it loses some of its potential, but can still be a great way to learn new things and improve your naturalness.
The most common issue is that chorusing is really difficult! There are tools to set up, workflows to learn and you need to find audio. But once you get used to the process, it gets easier!
How to chorus:
1. Load your audio file into the audio tool2. Listen to it normally for a bit, and find a sentence or a chunk that you want to chorus
3. Select that section and (if you want) move it to its own track or section so it's easier to keep track of
4. Play the clip several times, listening to the way the speaker says everything
5. Put the clip on loop (so it repeats) and try to start speaking along with it
6. (Optional) Record yourself doing the clip a few times and then listen to yourself in comparison to the original
7. Do a final few tries until you feel comfortable saying the clip, then move on! Good work!
In order to do chorusing, you're going to need some kind of audio interface tool, such as Audacity. You'll also need audio to work with and headphones. Optionally, you can use a microphone to hear what you sound like and record yourself for comparison.
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