improving pronunciation?

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Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone knows of a good site or software that focuses on Russian pronunciation?

I was raised in a Russian-speaking household in the US, so I'm fairly good with grammar, reading, carrying on conversations, etc., but my accent is just awful. What's frustrating is that I used to have a much better accent, but it slipped away a bit when I left home for college... so now I can hear the mistakes, which makes me self conscious, which makes it worse, which makes me more self conscious, and so on. Drilling sounds/words with people seems to help a lot, though.

So ideally, I'm looking for something that will play a word, have you speak into a microphone, and let you play back and compare the two. Free software's preferable, but I'm ok with paying for something good.

Or, if anyone has other tips on improving pronunciation, those would be greatly appreciated as well! :)

Thanks in advance