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| quesuerte Newbie Germany Joined 4978 days ago 16 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 5 16 September 2010 at 5:08pm | IP Logged |
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Hello!
Please could you critique my French accent?! I have been learning French for two months now and I've tried as hard as possible to imitate native speakers, I was wondering how successful I have been! I say: J'ai été très heureux de vous voir. Je suis ici pour le travail. Ah, oui?! C'est excellent. http://www.toofiles.com/es/oip/audios/wav/619_french_pronunc iation.html (you'll have to delete the space between the c and the i in the hyperlink, I have no idea why it's doing that. :S) Many thanks! :D Edited by quesuerte on 16 September 2010 at 5:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Genocyde Groupie United States Joined 5567 days ago 56 posts - 75 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Mandarin, Persian | Message 2 of 5 16 September 2010 at 5:12pm | IP Logged |
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The link isn't working...
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| quesuerte Newbie Germany Joined 4978 days ago 16 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 5 16 September 2010 at 5:15pm | IP Logged |
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Heya, it's fixed, although the forum insists on putting a space in the middle of the address, so you'll have to copy paste it into the address bar and delete the space. :S
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| Spiderkat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5607 days ago 175 posts - 248 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 5 16 September 2010 at 6:15pm | IP Logged |
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It sounds like you say "J'étais..." instead of "j'ai été..." because you pronounce the "é" sound "è", and the T of the word "excellent" should be silent. The first sentence is, I don't know how to explain but to me it sounds like it's a little too singy or maybe it's just the intonation that is a bit off.
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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5014 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 5 of 5 16 September 2010 at 7:22pm | IP Logged |
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Suerte: Spiderkat nailed it for you (though French is an L2 for me): I think you need a bit more study of RSVP: rhythm speed volume and pitch (prosody) to achieve a 'french' pronunciation. Try a bit more shadowing. As a Brit I personally am really really lazy when it comes to articulation and tend to elide phonemes, so you get the "J'etais" rather than "j'ai ete..." [excuse lack of accents as this laptop keyboard is cr*p]
Points to you for publishing sound files though! Well done. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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