Fatiha Practice
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Fatiha Practice – 15 May
Continuing with the Lo Fi ‘listen and repeat’. Again, not distracting myself by referring to a written version while reciting. I think it improves my pronunciation, but the recording ends up choppy becasue I have the memory of a gnat and I can only hold a few syllables in my mind long enough to repeat
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Fatiha Pratice – 13 May
I’m happier with today’s attempt. I was quite discouraged after my version of the 11th and couldn’t bring myself to practice yesterday. Today I went back to the Lo Fi audio and did a ‘listen and repeat’, but without the distraction of trying to read a transliteration whiel I did it. I’m still strugling to
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Fatiha Practice – 11 May
Deeply unsatisfactory practice today…I tried a cold read from another transliteration. This one arranges the syllables in an odd way and added vowel sounds at the end of each line that don’t fit with my other experiences of the text.
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Fatiha Practice – 10 May
This is the same transliteration as 8th May, but I decided to just give it a straight cold read without worrying about cadence.
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Fatiha Practice – 9 May
This is the same transliteration as 8th May, but I decided to just give it a straight cold read without worrying about cadence.
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Fatiha Practice – 8 May
I found a transliteration that had some slight differences to others I have used up to now and it felt a little easier to follow and recite. I’m still lost in terms of getting the cadence right.
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Fatiha Practice – 7 May
I followed along with a YouTube guide in ‘listen and repeat’ mode, but my problem is that I don’t have the text memorised yet. This video was flashing the individual words as they are recited and I had to keep pausing and rewinding to get even one line read and recited. I do think it
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Fatiha Practice – 6 May
GPT keeps suggesting further and further refinement of the notation it uses to indicate cadence, stress etc. I followed along the latest suggestion today, but I’m not happy with the results.