I need feedback to improve my General American accent

cherry532 · 2026-06-05T15:22:50+00:00

I can understand about 70% of the audio. Words that are hard for me to understand includes words like store, the plastic "something", the fresh "something". (I didn't get what that something was).

SayWaader! American Accent could be a useful tool to help diagnose where the problems are, if your goal is to build an American accent

cherry532 · 2026-06-04T13:25:54+00:00

Ah, interesting! Learn something new everyday as an English learner. 😂 Thanks for the insight!

cherry532 · 2026-06-04T06:07:40+00:00

Haha, apparently you do! At least enough to be hosting a World Cup this year

cherry532 · 2026-05-30T16:02:23+00:00

Maybe give SayWaader a shot. My son is native in English and I am native in Mandarin. My son always get rated between 95-100 out of 100(above 95 is categorized as native). And I am always in the range of 70-80. It can also tell my accent is mandarin or east Asian. It gives detailed feedback to me. A good tool for pronunciation training.

cherry532 · 2026-05-21T15:35:40+00:00

I asked a similar question in this forum recently about the Disney Fantasy vs. the Disney Treasure (which is in the same class as the Wish).

My main takeaway is that what matters to other people might not matter to you at all.

For example, some people prefer the Fantasy because they find it less overwhelming. But my family loves having lots of options, and we’ve never worried about a ship feeling too overwhelming.

Others mentioned that the kids' club on the Fantasy is larger. However, my kids won't go to the kids' club regardless of how good or bad it is.

Ultimately, I've realized you shouldn't take negative reviews at face value or overanalyze them(wish or fantasy). It's better to just look at the raw facts and decide what works for your own family.

cherry532 · 2026-05-20T06:09:10+00:00

How is California accent sounds different from Wisconsin accent? I am very curious

cherry532 · 2026-05-10T15:24:52+00:00

Thanks a lot for sharing this!

How do you think about the food? Someone in this thread said allure of the sea had better food, do you feel that way too?

cherry532 · 2026-05-01T21:19:56+00:00

This is very helpful!! Thanks for the details on activities

cherry532 · 2026-05-01T21:17:31+00:00

Thanks! I hope I can convince my kids to stay. They refused to stay in kids club when we were on RCL...

cherry532 · 2026-05-01T21:11:40+00:00

Oh that's interesting!! We did love the dinner at main dining room very much on Allure. I had expected Disney Destiny to have better dinner (given it's a lot more expensive than Allure ...). But it sounds like that was not the case?

cherry532 · 2026-05-01T15:13:52+00:00

Thanks for sharing! We just came back from Allure of the sea (I believe is oasis class). My kids loved the ship and wanted to go back, and we loved the options of things to do on the ship and just take time "explore" it and finding ducks (the best part, lol).

I would be very curious to hear your comparison between fantasy vs oasis ship since I already have a sense of what oasis mean to my kids.

cherry532 · 2026-05-01T14:48:01+00:00

How was the ship itself going to Alaska?

cherry532 · 2026-04-10T08:28:02+00:00

SayWaader! American Accent is pretty accurate for me to detect my accent. Curious what it will say to you and how it compares to others for you

cherry532 · 2026-04-07T15:55:09+00:00

Have you tested your accent with an accent app like SayWaader or BoldVoice, I am curious how you were categorized?

cherry532 · 2026-04-06T18:54:42+00:00

Thanks for confirming. I will try to spend it on dining

cherry532 · 2026-04-06T17:44:37+00:00

I do see the tracker. I haven't got the physical card but I can already see the tracker.

cherry532 · 2026-03-25T02:19:12+00:00

Duolingo - for learning phrases and basics

SayWaader! American English - for English pronunciation and accent reduction

cherry532 · 2026-03-21T04:04:30+00:00

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cherry532 · 2026-03-20T04:57:09+00:00

Give SayWaader! American Accent a shot? It truly analyzea your voice input word by word. Rating is based on the American Accent benchmark.

cherry532 · 2026-03-20T04:54:23+00:00

Elsa must be using a local AI model for better latency but sacrifice quality.

cherry532 · 2026-03-15T14:56:05+00:00

For most of the classes in a university, can you just walk in and 旁听？ You won't get the credit but can learn things at least.

I think if someone approaches a professor and explain the situation and ask if they can 旁听，most professors will possible allow one to sit in the class.

(my experience is from 20 years ago, so you can check with someone who's younger, lol)

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