Imitate

Learn French pronunciation with real-life videos

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Learn French pronunciation with real-life videos

3 followers

Imitate lets you practice pronunciation with real-life videos from youtube, and lets you listen to your own recordings to have an instant feedback loop.

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Bilbo

Maker

Hi, everyone! 👋 I'm Lars and I'm have been learning French for almost a year. I created Imitate because I have been struggling to find good tools to practice pronunciation. In order to be good, you need a lot of practice, but you also need feedback. The way musicians and actors improve is by recording themselves and listening to the recordings. They make small adjustments until it sounds the way they want. Why not do the same as a language learner? Imitate is a tool that will help you practice your pronunciation. It has a library of small video-segments from YouTube, and lets you practice imitating them using the practice chamber. I haven't added support for other languages than French yet, but feel free to test it anyway, or sign up for the waitlist of another language. Would love to hear feedback!

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5yr ago

Great idea! I already shared it with my newsletter of French learners and heard lots of positive feedback. I can't wait to see what will come next for Imitate! :)

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5yr ago

Bilbo

Maker

@growwithless Very grateful for that! Happy to bring value to your french learners, you are doing a great job.

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5yr ago

Blogging for Devs

I love the concept. When I was learning German, it was so hard to pronounce things correctly. Every time the teacher would say a sound, and i said it, i thought it was the same. I would've never known without feedback. This looks like a super smart way to nail the pronunciation through systemic practice!

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5yr ago

Bilbo

Maker

@monicalent Thanks! That's the exact core issue I'm tackling with this app🙌

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5yr ago

I'm loving this @larskarbo, coming from a new learner. I have a request please - the ability to reduce the pace of the speech (this is my first encounter with French). Enjoying it so far. Thank you! Thank you!!

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5yr ago

Bilbo

Maker

@toheeb Thanks! Happy you enjoy it. Reduce pace of speech or difficulty is one of the most requested features by users so far, will definitely look into it.

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5yr ago

Nice. Will you launch other languages too?

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5yr ago

Bilbo

Maker

@jbrowntheking Yes, for sure! I'm doing French first to figure out the exact focus of the app. Which direction to take it. When I nail that I will expand. I have waitlists for English, Chinese, Russian, German and Norwegian on the site.

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5yr ago

@larskarbo That's awesome. Thanks Lars!

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5yr ago

Kimunji

Great job @larskarbo! Always making great tools for everyone to use!

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5yr ago

Bilbo

Maker

@bengillin Thanks🙌🙌

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5yr ago

Pingman

Hi Lars, really smart tool! I'm French and I'm waiting for the integration for other languages.

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5yr ago

Bilbo

Maker

@yesnoornext Awesome! Which other languages are you interested in?

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5yr ago

Pingman

@larskarbo I'm learning to speak German and pronunciation is a tricky point especially with my French accent 😅

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5yr ago

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