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| luad Pentaglot Newbie Czech Republic lesliedahlberg.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3950 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, Czech, German, Russian Studies: Finnish | Message 1 of 8 18 October 2014 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi,
I'v made a recording of myself reading some classic books in Swedish, English, Czech, German, Russian and Dutch. It would be interesting to hear what native speakers think about it. I am Swedish, grew up in the Czech Republic, my parents worked with Americans, I watched German cartoons, studied German and Russian at school and learnt Dutch for fun. You can listen to the recording here: LINK Thank you for all replies! Edited by luad on 19 October 2014 at 9:33am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Darya0Khoshki Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5070 days ago 71 posts - 91 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Iraqi) Studies: Persian | Message 2 of 8 19 October 2014 at 4:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi,
Your link didn't work for me. Did you take it off? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dragon27 Diglot Groupie Russian Federation Joined 4243 days ago 41 posts - 71 votes Speaks: Russian*, English | Message 3 of 8 19 October 2014 at 8:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Darya0Khoshki, remove a space in "october" in the link.
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| Darya0Khoshki Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5070 days ago 71 posts - 91 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Iraqi) Studies: Persian | Message 4 of 8 20 October 2014 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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The only one I can comment on is English (I am American).
Most of the time, you sound American to me; just a few moments / words that sound a little funny. If I met you, I would probably think were American at first, then as I caught a few pronunciation oddities I would probably assume you to be a European who had lived in America since you were young or studied English in a very good American school since childhood. Hope that helps! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 5 of 8 22 October 2014 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Comments on your Czech:
Firstly, really great job. Your pronunciation is among the best I have ever heard from a foreigner, perhaps even the very best. You are surprisingly correct at pronunciation of every consonant, there are clear distinctions between the hard and soft sounds, perfect. What gives you away as a foreigner are the vowels. The long and short sounds are quite important to differenciate. Sure, there are differences between various czechs when it comes to the lenghts but those tend to be more consistent (mostly people always lenghten or shorten all the vowels or one or two) but your interpretation is more chaotic as you probably focus on different things. Mostly, it would suffice to just follow the writen text, everything is clearly written out: a/á, y/ý etc. Another mistake, which you share with some czechs who aren't used to reading aloud, is your breathing and the feel for the structure of a sentence. Your intonation is meant to follow the written hints (full stops, commas) and drop at the appropriate times (and raise in a question), you can as well plan your breathing according to the same pattern. Really good job. I think that should you wish to become perfect, some extensive listening could do the job. Large amounts of speech in a tv series, movies, radio and so on. Pronunciation guides and relevant chapters in textbooks are no longer of much use to you, in my opinion. Congratulations, you really sound awesome and thank you, it was a rare pleasure to hear someone so good at my native language. Edited by Cavesa on 22 October 2014 at 6:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 6 of 8 26 October 2014 at 12:16am | IP Logged | ||
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You sound good and understandable in Dutch, but with a slight accent that I can't quite
put my finger on. I hear the same thing in Russian where there are some things that make you sound a little off, but there I'll leave it to the experts to comment. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5058 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 7 of 8 26 October 2014 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Russian pronunciation is really good. Перед can't be used with the accusative case,
so перед лицом публики. The accents are a few times unclear, in выяснить the stressed ы is swallowed, щ sounds like ш a few times, ы sounds like и. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| showtime17 Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Slovakia gainweightjournal.co Joined 6086 days ago 154 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Russian, English*, Czech*, Slovak*, French, Spanish Studies: Ukrainian, Polish, Dutch | Message 8 of 8 27 October 2014 at 1:39pm | IP Logged | ||
Your background sounds similar to mine :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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