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| CAGANAIALIL Newbie South Africa Joined 5467 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Studies: English | Message 1 of 21 07 May 2009 at 8:09am | IP Logged |
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Hello native Swedish Speaker's
How would you rate this Slovene's woman Swedish accent? http://olle-kjellin.com/SpeechDoctor/HB_ident.au 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6681 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 21 07 May 2009 at 10:28am | IP Logged |
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A very slight foreign accent. Nine on a scale of 1 to 10.
The tiny moments of hesitation between words give her away more than the actual inaccuracies in accent which are very slight. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5625 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 3 of 21 07 May 2009 at 12:33pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah, like Hencke says, she is fluent, has an advanced vocabulary and grammar sounds right. She does have a noticeable "yugoslavian" accent (Sweden has plenty of immigrants from there, and the accent is recognisable").
I'm sure she's put in a lot of effort into learning Swedish and she definitely deserves praise for being successful. Well done her! You are making me curious! Why is a a SA guy interested in the the Swedish accent of a Slovene woman? (listed on an OZ site..) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| The_Tomato Diglot Newbie SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5792 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 4 of 21 07 May 2009 at 1:09pm | IP Logged |
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If I didn't know about it, I would not be able to tell that she is not a native speaker just by listening to that audio clip. It's true that she hesitated for half a second at one point, but native speakers do that as well. Her pronunciation is the best I've ever heard so far, coming from a non-native speaker. She had the right intonation and everything.
But then again, the quality of that audio clip wasn't really very good so I shouldn't say too much. On a longer recording with better audio quality, I might be able to catch her foreign accent a little bit better. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6696 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 21 07 May 2009 at 2:43pm | IP Logged |
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An unnatural pause, plus the "acute" accent on "hållet" is the only negative I have to say. Well done indeed.
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| eoinda Tetraglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5735 days ago 101 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, Spanish, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 6 of 21 07 May 2009 at 4:31pm | IP Logged |
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Wonderful. You do notice her foreign accent but barely. There is something with the A's I think but I'm not sure.
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| CAGANAIALIL Newbie South Africa Joined 5467 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Studies: English | Message 7 of 21 07 May 2009 at 7:50pm | IP Logged |
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This was on Olle Kjellin's site (http://olle-kjellin.com/SpeechDoctor/metodik2.html)
It is claimed that this woman self-corrected her Swedish accent using Kjellin's 'prosodihandbok'. It took her about a year. (Correct me if I'm wrong, poor Swedish). If this is true it tells us alot about the importance of a very often neglected aspect of foreign language learning, prosody. Kjellin has done a remarkable work on the role of prosody, but it has not got much attention. (Im sure many on this forum ahve already read his paper on pronunciation teaching and learning: http://olle-kjellin.com/SpeechDoctor/ProcLP98.html) Well, thanks for your help! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| anders_h Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 5900 days ago 11 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Icelandic | Message 8 of 21 10 May 2009 at 9:19am | IP Logged |
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The only mistake is the accent in "hållet", but the perfect cute tone curve plus the very (very!) good extra long vowel length in "läääära sej" makes me swear she came to Sweden quite young. AH 1 person has voted this message useful |
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