Learn English for Chinese Speaker - App or Program

[Deactivated] on 15/09/2016 - 20:11

Can anyone recommend an app or program (hopefully OSX compatible) for a native Mandarin speaker to improve their english?

Missus is Taiwanese, speaks passable level of english but her pronunciation could do with some improvement.

Thanks in advance.

Comments

fossilfuel on 15/09/2016 - 21:48

+1

Duolingo?
- [Deactivated] on 15/09/2016 - 22:36
  
  Thanks, I'll pass that along. I've used it Eng>Esp and it was great!
captobvious on 16/09/2016 - 00:04

+1

No app is going to help unless she gets frequent practice. This will help the pronunciation considerably.

Trust me. I have fobs in my family and without practice and socialising with english speaking Australians and getiing out o f their little group of foreign language speaking friends there is no hope
- [Deactivated] on 16/09/2016 - 11:24
  
  Absolutely, we speak on a daily basis (and I correct most mispronunciations - crude but it works…eventually), and she is employed full time in a professional capacity dealing exclusively with "lo wai".
altomic on 16/09/2016 - 07:08

My pronunciation "trick" (when I lived in Japan for 4 years and was learning Japanese) was to imitate grumpy old men. Listen to their accent, speech mannerisms and then try and emulate that.

Some sounds in Japanese (more so with Taiwanese -my next door neighbours are Taiwanese and have very strong accents) are difficult to differentiate eg tsu & zu. And for Japanese speaking English - la & ra. Imitate. And practice.