Recording My Own Voice Asking the right question is extremely important, because is the first step towards solving the problem. About 2 months ago, I started to address my English pronunciation problem again. I had tried multiple times before. However because the process was not satisfactory and also I thought my English was good enough for people to understand me at the work, I gave up halfway through. Nevertheless taking my English speaking skills to the next level is always in my mind. After I moved to SF bay area about 4 months ago, I found one meetup group, where some native Americans volunteered to help people with improving their English pronunciations. I have been to the meetup every week since I found it, and it has helped me a great deal, especially in terms of helping me realizing some common pronunciation problems I have. The nice thing is that not only those Americans help people spot their problems, but also provide tips to fix them. Realizing the problems is crucial. However it is just the beginning of actually solving them. I practice repeating some difficult sounds whenever I can, driving in the car, walking by myself. However there is still one missing piece--when I practice by myself, I don't know whether I am doing it correctly. If I don't do it correctly, repeating it millions of times only makes things worse! I realized that getting instant feedback when practicing was critical if I wanted to make fast progress. Getting real-time feedback about my English pronunciation is one of the reasons for me to sign up at italki and find language partners. It works to some degree. I have had some great conversations with multiple people and got some good feedback as well. Still I felt it was not enough. I need more practice and I need immediate feedback for it. What should I do then? I found one potential solution to it tonight. I can record myself talking and hear the playback afterwards! When I am talking, I can't hear myself clearly. But in the playback, the sound is much clearer for myself to spot the issues. I don't know how effective the technique will be and not sure how long I can keep doing it. Hopefully I will be able to keep doing it for a while and hopefully the technique will work.