🎧Listening practice strategies
Make your own audio
The best thing to do, once you are somewhat confident enough about your pronunciation, is to start to make your own audio practice files.
Record yourself reading texts aloud, and listen to that file.
When I am starting to learn a dialogue, I use the format of alternating between the English sentence and the Tibetan sentence.
Once I am more familiar with the dialogue, I will read the dialogue in Tibetan and stop myself with notes about the unfamiliar vocabulary as I go along. This lets me test myself as I am listening and reinforce the weak points.
Then listen to the dialogue spoken by native speakers.
Listen to both files in a loop until the dialogue is well memorized, and practice speaking exactly the way that you hear the native speakers pronounce. A bit like what a small child will do with their favourite movie dialogue.
Loop a video (play on repeat):
in Chrome, the Play button will appear as a "Loop" button
in Edge, right-click on the Play button and choose "Loop"
on a device, open the settings wheel and choose "loop"
Slow down or speed up a video:
in a browser or device, open the settings wheel and choose "Playback speed"
Rewind a certain amount in a video:
You can double-tap to the left or right on a YouTube video and it will jump back or forward by ten-second increments. You can change the amount of time that it jumps in the settings. (Thanks to Nick Prior at tibetanlanguage.school for the tip on this one)
Hide YouTube controls
when paused (if they're blocking text on the screen, for example):
Hyde extension for Chrome lets you hide the YouTube controls when you press Ctrl+M.