albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4379 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German
| Message 1 of 12 07 February 2014 at 1:56pm | IP Logged |
I have done a new recording in English , what do you think honestly of my
accent/pronunciation ?
here is the link :https://soundcloud.com/alberto-avanzini/sounds-from-venerd- morning
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ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7229 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog
| Message 2 of 12 07 February 2014 at 3:11pm | IP Logged |
There's no struggle for me to understand that. :) BTW There should be a way to put the
sounds on your HTLAL profile if you want.
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tbreit Newbie United States Joined 5206 days ago 17 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 3 of 12 08 February 2014 at 4:06pm | IP Logged |
Alberto, you are doing great.I can understand you very easily. When I first heard you speak, you do not have much of an Italian accent, and I could not place place it, but you mentioned studying German. To my ears, you do have a slight German accent. Keep up the good work.
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4900 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 4 of 12 08 February 2014 at 4:38pm | IP Logged |
Alberto, you sound Italian to me. Not a very strong accent, but it's there.
I'm not sure what, exactly, you want to hear from us. Do you want advice? Or just information?
Edited by Jeffers on 08 February 2014 at 4:39pm
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albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4379 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German
| Message 5 of 12 08 February 2014 at 5:49pm | IP Logged |
Jeffers wrote:
Alberto, you sound Italian to me. Not a very strong accent, but it's there.
I'm not sure what, exactly, you want to hear from us. Do you want advice? Or just information? |
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I would like to have mainly information . Anyhow thanks for saying what you think . Do I really sound
italian or simply foreign ?
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6900 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 6 of 12 08 February 2014 at 5:59pm | IP Logged |
To my ears, your accent sounds more American than any other native English accent, but coloured by Hispanic American. That is, if I didn't know you were Italian and I were to guess your nationality, I'd probably have guessed that you were from Latin America.
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4038 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 7 of 12 08 February 2014 at 6:41pm | IP Logged |
Hi Alberto, to me is good (but I'm also Italian so it's better to rely on natives opinions).
I find impressive that you can speak with this fluency even if you never speak English.
Your English sounds really American to me :)
(despite I can not understand more than 5% of German seems you have a similar fluency, congratulation!)
I should do something like that as well, it's a really good idea to have immediate feedback from natives!
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pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5719 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian
| Message 8 of 12 08 February 2014 at 7:08pm | IP Logged |
To me you just sound foreign. I would have never guessed that you were Italian.
You sound good, but four words that stood out to me as mispronounced were "foreign" (you repeated that wrongly three times I think), "said" and "at least", "exercise".
I think you can be proud of your English, without a doubt.
Edited by pesahson on 08 February 2014 at 7:08pm
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