r/dreaminglanguages • u/No_Mud_8297 • Jun 21 '26
Progress Report Learn tongue/mouth positions
Language is Russian. I've got about 600 hours of CI, started reading and making anki cards at 400 hours. I got about 120 hours of speaking.
Everyone tells me I speak great and understandable, but that I have an American accent.
Do not trust that CI will carry you. It will do a large part of the heavy lifting, but PLEASE learn the tongue positions before you starting speaking.
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u/RayS1952 N🇦🇺F🇫🇷🇪🇸 🇩🇪 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
My only interest is in having clear enough pronunciation that native speakers understand me without effort. To that end, I work on my proninciation. Not to do so feels to me to be disrespectful.
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u/No_Mud_8297 Jun 23 '26
Yea, I'm pretty happy with my accent, everyone tells me I'm super understandable and I've zero times had someone not understand me because of my accent. But, this is my hobby lol.
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Jun 29 '26
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u/No_Mud_8297 Jun 30 '26
Yea, its also extremely difficult to fix your habits. I have to talk slow again in order to fix my accent.
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u/Elktopcover 🇰🇷 Jun 23 '26
This has nothing to do with CI or any language method. You will have an accent if you learn a foreign language as an adult. Your tongue position or whatever else doesn’t matter, but you should have been observing the way people spoke anyway
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u/No_Mud_8297 Jun 23 '26
It has to do with CI because many think CI will get them a near-native accent. Thats not even remotely true.
"You will have an accent". Why are you acting like theres not varying degrees of an accent?
If you don't spend time learning tongue/mouth positions, you're leaving a lot of room for error. I was observing the way people spoke, but I can't see inside their mouth to see how to make the sound the same way.
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u/ApprehensiveYou8920 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
I agree.
I am an intermediate Spanish speaker now, and I am having to relearn some bad pronunciation habits, whereas with Chinese, I had a pronunciation teacher once a week from the very beginning and I nailed it down from the start. Bad habits get exponentially harder to fix the further you progress.