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I skip all of the pronunciation parts. Hell, I sometimes do call center implementations that do speech to text (Amazon Connect with Amazon Lex) and it doesn’t understand my native English southern accent. What chance does DuoLingo have?

But occasionally I do use iOS’s built in Translate app and test my pronunciation by speaking Spanish and seeing if it can translate it to English.

Going the other way is about 95% effective for me.

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> But occasionally I do use iOS’s built in Translate app and test my pronunciation by speaking Spanish and seeing if it can translate it to English.

That's pretty clever.

And no matter how hard I try, I can’t get it to understand any word with a rolled “r”.

Right now, I’m on lesson 29 in Spanish and trying to pronounce “pruebo” - “I taste” (also can translate to “I try”). It keeps thinking I’m trying to say “huevo” - egg.

Voice dictation works almost perfectly in English for me, so I’m assuming it’s my own mispronunciation

> use iOS’s built in Translate app

Thank you so much for this tip, it is honestly astounding how well this works and I can instantly see how useful it's going to be!

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