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‘Waste Land ( T.S. Eliot)’
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Non-native speaker
Accent: Brit-German? You tell me, please!
Author: bakedbeansjulia
Date: 10/30/2006

Description of what is on the sound file:
I spent altogether 30 days in the UK, yet my English sounds rather British than anything else. But it certainly contains a foreign accent. Is it German?

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Transcript of sound file:
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow     
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,     
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only     
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,     
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,     
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only     
There is shadow under this red rock,     
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),     
And I will show you something different from either     
Your shadow at morning striding behind you     
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;     
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.     
               Frisch weht der Wind     
               Der Heimat zu.     
               Mein Irisch Kind,     
               Wo weilest du?

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