Pronounciation practice
Hello, I am a beginner who is struggling with execution of tones. My problem is that I think I'm doing it - I know what tone I want to produce, I say the word using the tone I want to produce, and then I discover that's not actually the tone I made.
Is there any method people have used to enable self-correction here? I'm not good enough yet to be hearing that I'm wrong, so I need a method that gives me feedback.
The most effective thing so far has been the HelloChinese app role play modules, because I can hear the correct pronounciation and then play my own attempt multiple times to see what I'm doing. However, this is role-play and it doesn't let me practice with other sentences I'm attempting.
Google translate is somewhat good as I can see when I've got words wrong and I can practice any sentence I want, but it's harder to self-correct because I can't play back what I said and the microphone is a bit janky and often turns off halfway through what I'm saying.
I work with a tutor once a week so I am getting some expert correction but the 1 session isn't enough. I have just started shadowing on DuChinese which is also helpful but of course I don't know when I'm incorrect.
I want to be able to practice my execution multiple days a week... the only method I can think of right now is to record the audio on my phone and then say it to google translate again. That way I can get the correct pronounciation from google and replay my own pronounciation from my phone. It's a bit fiddly though.