Good Way To Practise Sounds And Speaking?

[welovesundaysatspace]

Practising the five tones and speaking words is great fun when I have my lessons at the language schools and has a good learning progress because of my teachers feedback. Beside that I find it hard to practise the tones and words at home, because of the missing feedback. At least sometimes I think I am right in the tone but a Thai would have to correct. Although I have some Thai friends I don't want to bore them hours and hours with my mai mai mai mai mai. ;-)

Do u know a good method to practise at home alone? Maybe some software like Rosetta Stone, which compares your individual tone with the correct one if they match?

Thx for any suggestion

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Try this spectogram, it's free. Spectogram

[welovesundaysatspace]

thanks alot, looks like a great tool. How about ur experiences with that tool?

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I have tried it and thought it was a nice piece of software, but it was a couple of years too late to be of that much help for me with learning Thai tones. I did it the old fashioned way.