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| Bob Greaves Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6682 days ago 86 posts - 91 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 1 of 23 28 June 2009 at 12:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am not experienced enough to be able to tell myself, but can a Spanish speaker comment on Alba's accent. Is it: good? native? acquired?
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| Javi Senior Member Spain Joined 5984 days ago 419 posts - 548 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 2 of 23 29 June 2009 at 1:08am | IP Logged | ||
A link would help :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6154 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 3 of 23 29 June 2009 at 11:30am | IP Logged | ||
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I believe he means,
Alba Learning I'm also curious about her accent. I believe it's a native accent from Spain, probably Seville or somewhere else in the south, but I could be completely wrong. Edited by DaraghM on 29 June 2009 at 11:32am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Javi Senior Member Spain Joined 5984 days ago 419 posts - 548 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 4 of 23 29 June 2009 at 1:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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She's definitely a native from Spain, but I didn't notice any special feature of a Southern accent. She might be from Seville, as some Southerners can change their accent when reading, especially reading slowly as she does, but I can't tell if it is the case. Her J doesn't sound Castilian to me though.
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 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6897 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 23 29 June 2009 at 1:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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I listened to a short bit from "Lazarillo de Tormes", quite a coincidence since I was having a walk along the banks of the Tormes river this very weekend !
That is a very educated, standard Spanish accent. I can't detect any elements from the south of Spain in her accent, or any other regional characteristics for that matter. Her s-sounds are clearly standard, not Andalucian, z and s are different sounds and she even carefully makes a difference between ll and y. To my mind she is more likely to be from some central or northern part of Spain, but she could be from anywhere, and just making the extra effort to affect a standard accent. She does sound native. But at times I get a feeling she is in fact making some kind of effort, some of the ll-sounds come out a little funny, but then there are many ancient turns of phrase in that text that would require quite a bit of concentration for anyone to read. EDIT: I also listened to a bit of a text she had written herself and I get the same impression there, so the old language is not the issue. Probably she is just making an effort to sound very clear and very standard and it comes out as slightly stilted and unnatural as a result. Edited by Hencke on 29 June 2009 at 1:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5769 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 6 of 23 29 June 2009 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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(Her reading style actually reminds me of myself when I record a text for non-natives or read to small children.)
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| Bob Greaves Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6682 days ago 86 posts - 91 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 7 of 23 29 June 2009 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for your responses. They have given me more confidence when listening to her. I felt that her accent was a bit too "correct" and she may have been a non-native of Spain trying to sound like an educated native (she pronounces the LL sound the way text books say it should be pronounced).
In addition thanks for giving a link, DaraghM - it was very sloppy of me to omit this; especially as I quoted the wrong web site in the title to my question (Leer Escuchando should have been Alba Learning). Bob Edited by Bob Greaves on 29 June 2009 at 8:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LtM Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5863 days ago 130 posts - 223 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 8 of 23 30 June 2009 at 12:26am | IP Logged | ||
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She sounds to me like she's from north-west Spain (Galicia region).
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