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Skritter is great as well for pronounciation learning

lennier61   December 16th, 2009 11:29a.m.

The main goal of Skritter is writing practice, however I have been highly impressed by the good quality of sound, it had helped me a lot to overcome the pinyin bad habits. My mother language is Spanish, so unfortunately I have a very nasty trend to read pinyin as spanish letters, but Skritter is helping to overcome it.

I have a wish, however, would it be possible to get a REPLAY SOUND button when we have just finished a word practice?

nick   December 16th, 2009 11:50a.m.

There is one, at least when audio is available. Press the speaker button in the prompt, right next to the magnifying glass.

How could we make that button's function clearer?

arp   December 16th, 2009 1:03p.m.

Wonder if at some future point the words without pronunciation will get filled in?

It is a huge help as lennier61 says in getting the sound to imprint on memory. Sometimes I hit that button repeatedly, but not sure when or how I realized I could do that.

lennier61   December 18th, 2009 12:14a.m.

I do apologize Nick, sometimes I can be very dumb, I believed those buttons were for in-out the sound.

However, I am happy I asked since now I realized their real usefulness.

Thanks again.

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