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Slightly off-topic, but when learning to speak a new language, it is helpful to actually speak the language as often as you can.
There are a couple of websites that make it easy to book short conversation practice with native speakers. The one I use to practice Spanish is italki.
I find the practice of actually speaking, no matter how badly, helps way more than any app.
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sureMan6 • yesterday at 11:49 AM
The entire thing is mostly AI written transparently
Agreed. I'm learning Chinese and while apps are lovely, nothing will prepare you for the pure amount of variation in accents across the world. Real world immersion becomes important for your brain to get used to mapping certain sounds to certain words.
I've also realised it's same for English, except we don't really think about it since we're used to the sounds, but the way we'd say "I went to the market" in daily speech is night and day to how it would be enunciated during an English speaking class (e.g. uh wen tu-th markt vs eye weynt too thee marr-ket). To the unpracticed ear they can just sound like different sentences.