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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6845 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes  5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 1 of 4 04 May 2009 at 10:33pm | IP Logged |
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Inspired by Rafa's thread, I'd like to hear your opinions about my accent in French too. What should I improve first? If you didn't know where I come from, what would you guess?
The recording is a short excerpt from Assimil. Recording 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| guilon Pentaglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6134 days ago 226 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Spanish*, PortugueseC2, FrenchC2, Italian, English | Message 2 of 4 05 May 2009 at 3:58am | IP Logged |
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While your accent is still far from completely polished, I think you have done a great work so far. I personally
couldn't tell where you are from based on what I hear, non-native of course but nothing gives you away as Slavic in my opinion. Well done. Now about improvable skills, -Listen carefully to nasal sounds from your assimil lesson ("d'un endroit à un autre", "ne dépend pas de la longueur", "en grande banlieue, vous pouvez emprunter") and try to emulate them as best as you can, yours are still improvable. -The alternate E sounds seem to be puzzling you a little, listen to the "prenez le métro" sentence in the assimil and compare it to your own. -I know intonation is something of a lost cause for us language learners, but here again try to imitate the French cadence. You are clearly trying to, but still some steps to be covered so you sound more native. Congratulations anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5936 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 3 of 4 05 May 2009 at 7:16am | IP Logged |
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I second what Guilon said. It's pretty damned good, and I wouldn't have picked Polish as your native tongue.
Congratulations, it's better than mine, and keep up the good work. Thom. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6845 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 4 of 4 05 May 2009 at 8:55pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for your comments! Honestly, I didn't expect them to be so good. French intonation is not easy to me, especially in text like the one I recorded (later I'll try to record a dialogue - it's usually asier to imitate the intonation there). Nasal sounds are extremely difficult -I often don't hear the difference (or I hear it somewhere where I shouldn't.) I guess it may be an influence from my native Polish that has some nasal sounds too (but they're different). The "e" sounds should be easier, I hear the differences but when I speak / read I often forget where which sound goes.
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