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JW
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 Message 1 of 42
02 December 2009 at 4:38am | IP Logged 
Here is a video of me reading in seven languages. Comments welcome, especially on the Koine Greek, as I am still not sure of the best pronunciation method.

(Moderators, please move this if I am posting it in the wrong place)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caapi4YwnAo
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Jiwon
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 Message 2 of 42
02 December 2009 at 5:50am | IP Logged 
Nice video. Koine Greek sounded really awesome. :)
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jeff_lindqvist
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 Message 3 of 42
02 December 2009 at 5:40pm | IP Logged 
Oh yes, Greek! That sounded really cool. I must pick it up again someday.
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Fasulye
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 Message 4 of 42
03 December 2009 at 7:08pm | IP Logged 
Now it was my turn to watch this excellent video. Generally speaking, your pronouncation in all the language is very good. I am especially impressed by your pronounciation of Koine Greek and Italian. When I learned Ancient Greek at school, our teacher spoke it with a strong German accent, so our whole mini-class learned to pronounce it that way. Your Koine Greek sounds very natural - while I don't know what the standard pronounciation of Ancient Greek is - in any case yours is much, much better than I used to pronounce this language at school. Your Italian sounds very native-speaker like, because you speak the language with a sentence melody the Italian way. Your Dutch sounds rather Flemish (met de zachte "g") to me, did you work a lot with podcasts from Flanders? I only miss your Letzebuergsch, but probably in this language you don't have such a bible quote.

Thanks for presenting such an interesting multilingual video!

Fasulye

Edited by Fasulye on 03 December 2009 at 9:42pm
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JW
Hexaglot
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 Message 5 of 42
03 December 2009 at 8:02pm | IP Logged 
Fasulye wrote:
Now it was my turn to watch this excellent video. Generally speaking, your pronouncation in all the language is very good. I am especially impressed by your pronounciation of Koine Greek and Italian. When I learned Ancient Greek at school, our teacher spoke it with a strong German accent, so our whole mini-class learned to pronounce it that way. Your Koine Greek sounds very natural - while I don't know what the standard pronounciation of ancient Greek is - in any case yours is much, much better than I used to pronounce this language at school. Your Italian sounds very native-speaker like, because you speak the language with a sentence melody the Italian way. Your Dutch sounds rather Flemish (met de zachte "g") to me, did you work a lot with podcasts from Flanders? I only miss your Letzebuergsch, but probably in this language you don't have such a bible quote.

Thanks for presenting such an interesting multilingual video!

Fasulye

Thank you very much for that thorough evaluation--much appreciated :)

I actually put a lot of work into researching the best way to pronounce the Koine Greek since no one really knows how it was pronounced. This included actually studying some Modern Greek. My conclusion is that it was probably pronounced somewhat similar to Modern Greek -- but not exactly. Most Ancient Greek classes use the Erasmian pronunciation which it sounds like your class used. As you noted, anyone who is skilled with languages knows that the Erasmian pronunciation is certainly NOT how ancient Greek was pronounced.

With Italian, I listen to a lot of Italian music and I think that is helpful in getting the rhythm of the language. With Dutch, I listen to this podcast:

http://www.radioboeken.eu/index.php?lang=NL

which is great because the readers have every type of Dutch accent. I always find the ones with the rollende "r" and the zachte "g" to be the most mellifluous so I patterned my own Dutch accent after them.

You are correct about the Luxemburgish, I don't think the entire Bible is translated into this language, I have only found this site which contains some excerpts:

http://www.bibel.lu/spip.php?rubrique4

I will make a video in Luxemburgish at some point. That will be fun.



Edited by JW on 03 December 2009 at 8:03pm
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magister
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 Message 6 of 42
03 December 2009 at 11:45pm | IP Logged 
As an aside, one thing I like about members posting language videos is to finally see other longtime users. It's nice to be able to put a face with the name.
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JW
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 Message 7 of 42
04 December 2009 at 6:39pm | IP Logged 
magister wrote:
As an aside, one thing I like about members posting language videos is to finally see other longtime users. It's nice to be able to put a face with the name.

That is a nice benefit of the videos. Unfortunately, I think there is a bit of a time issue for most people in that making such a video requires learning how to use the video camera, learning how to upload the video to your computer, learning how to upload from your computer to YouTube (or other hosting service), Choosing the material for your video, etc.. I have been planning to do it for months but the time factor prevented me from accomplishing it until this week.
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cordelia0507
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 Message 8 of 42
07 December 2009 at 9:21pm | IP Logged 
Very nice - the German stood out as the strongest I thought, but frankly I am not really a good judge of it, other than plenty of exposure to these languages (NOT Greek though!)

Really - good grammar and vocabulary is more important that native pronounciation which is almost impossible to achieve anyway....

Keep us posted!



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