Forvo
Reddit take
Not enough linked mention summaries yet; the source excerpts below are the evidence.
Pros
- It's all pitch accent and prosody: https://ja.forvo.com/word/%E9%B3%B3%E5%87%B0%E3%82%92%E8%BF%BD%E3%81%86%E7%8E%8B%E3%82%92%E8%A6%86%E3%81%8A%E3%81%86/
- u/MaelduinTamhlacht is right, Forvo is your friend
- Forvo.com is an amazing pronunciation index with millions of audio clips from native speakers.
- I'd recommend going to forvo (website or app) to hear natives pronounce it as it's better than trying to compare it to English sounds here.
- If you can't get any person you know to read it, try forvo.com. It's usually recordings of natives reading words and phrases, so you can enter any phase (as long as it exists as an recording) and listen to how natives pronounce it.
Cons
- It seems completely broken to me. Very little seemes to work. For example, right now I just went on it, and I can't search. The search button does nothing. Before, I searched but I couldn't click on a word to hear it.
- Why does 動く (うごく) seem to have 2 pronunciations, one where the g in ご is pronounced in an odd way? From Forvo, the pronunciation by 'strawberrybrown' is different from the other ones.
- i've been receiving Error code 520 for several weeks. I used to use it alot but everytime lately it's been down.
- I can’t live without Forvo, it has served me so much over the years and I just can’t find any comparatively good alternative to it. What going on with the website that hardly gets any maintenance, such as adding new words or fixing the d...
Sentiment
29 positive (88%) · 2 mixed (6%) · 2 negative (6%)
Trust + time weighted score: +80% · raw score 82%
What redditors said (10 of 33)
It's all pitch accent and prosody: https://ja.forvo.com/word/%E9%B3%B3%E5%87%B0%E3%82%92%E8%BF%BD%E3%81%86%E7%8E%8B%E3%82%92%E8%A6%86%E3%81%8A%E3%81%86/
u/MaelduinTamhlacht is right, Forvo is your friend
Forvo.com is an amazing pronunciation index with millions of audio clips from native speakers.
I'd recommend going to forvo (website or app) to hear natives pronounce it as it's better than trying to compare it to English sounds here.
If you can't get any person you know to read it, try forvo.com. It's usually recordings of natives reading words and phrases, so you can enter any phase (as long as it exists as an recording) and listen to how natives pronounce it.
I'm mad that no one has mentioned Forvo. It's an archive specifically for pronunciation recordings. Native speakers of a ton of languages submit themselves saying words or sometimes sentences in their language for learners to listen to and mimic.
A good site to listen to native pronunciation is Forvo.
As far as single words are concerned, Forvo is an excellent resource for learning pronunciation
You can get audio with Forvo and sentences from Tatoeba if you don’t have another source you prefer.
It seems completely broken to me. Very little seemes to work. For example, right now I just went on it, and I can't search. The search button does nothing. Before, I searched but I couldn't click on a word to hear it.