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Vocaroo thread Anonymous 11/09/14 (Sun) 16:49:09 No.189

Let's talk

Put the language you speak in your name field and speakers of this language post some text for you and r8 you and give tips.

Or just have fun with anything

vocaroo.com

Anonymous 11/09/14 (Sun) 17:08:51 No.192

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0yaHMP2UdCZ

Anonymous 11/09/14 (Sun) 17:09:30 No.193

>>192
french
the first 2 paragraphs of this article
https://news.vice.com/fr/article/body-found-near-disputed-dam-site-in-france39s-sivens-forest-fr-translation

Anonymous 11/09/14 (Sun) 17:26:52 No.197

Spanish:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0LxfbStsV5d

guessed the word for record…and sound

Esperanto:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s15jVXy4iOo6

Anonymous 11/09/14 (Sun) 17:42:32 No.198

>>193
Very nice, I understood all of it.
Here are some points you can improve on:
>your speed
>indique
Doesn't end with a [e]. A closer sound would just be [ik]
>mort
The t is silent
>You have a bit of trouble with the nasal vowels like 'en', or 'un'
>rôle
Same with 'indique', it just ends with an [l]
>aux affrontements
There's a liaison here, so you get a [z] sound between them.
>oppose
Same with 'rôle' and 'indique', it ends with [z] ([opoz])
>défense
It's a nasal there, you don't say the [n].
>remarquable
It was good the first time you said it, the 'qua' is like a 'ka'.

Anonymous 11/09/14 (Sun) 17:50:49 No.199

>>198
thank you

here are 2 other paragraphs
http://vocaroo.com/i/s17lNadztKWj

Anonymous 11/09/14 (Sun) 18:10:57 No.201

>>199
No problem
>indiquent
Nice nasal, but this time it ends with [ic]. Most verbs at the 3rd person plural (-ent) sound like that. If you say it with a nasal it sounds like 'indiquant', but that's the present participle.
>décès
the 's' is silent
>de
It's a [ə] sound
>personnes
It's not a nasal here, it's a clear [n] sound (like 'son' in english)
>bon enfant
There's a liaison here, so it's not a nasal at 'bon': it's a clear n. It's like it was 'bonne' instead of 'bon'
>Mélenchon
It's not a [k] sound but a 'sh' sound, at the end
>taxés
The 's' is silent

I hope it's clear enough, it's been a while since I've written about phonetics. By the way, autopsy confirmed that the dude really died because of a policeman's grenade. Pretty fucked up

Anonymous 11/09/14 (Sun) 18:21:35 No.203

>>189
>Put the language you speak in your name field and speakers of this language post some text for you and r8 you and give tips
*Put the language you are learning in your name field
damnit

Anonymous 11/09/14 (Sun) 18:28:39 No.205

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0eYGQUgl3Hr

here you go I had trouble with étaient at the end there
heres the text

>Des policiers stationnés dans une enceinte grillagée

>« Entre 15h et 15h30 environ, un cortège ouvert par des brebis arrivait vers le site du Testet. Invités à marcher avec le troupeau, les participants à la manifestation ont suivi en nombre. Nous avons traversé toute la zone déboisée pour arriver à l'autre bout du chantier où se trouve un parc grillagé normalement destiné aux hommes du chantier semble-t-il. Aucune machine n'était présente sur les lieux. Seuls 7 ou 8 cars de CRS étaient garés ici. »

Anonymous 11/09/14 (Sun) 18:29:44 No.206

thx m8
RIP REMI

Polski, Deutsch 11/09/14 (Sun) 18:36:36 No.207

Könnten Sie mir etwas posten? Bitte!
Polaku proszę, weź piszcie…

Anonymous 11/09/14 (Sun) 19:21:56 No.214

>>207
Can war eine Rockgruppe aus Deutschland und gilt als eine der innovativsten und einflussreichsten Krautrock-Gruppen.

Can wurde 1968 in Köln gegründet. Die Rockgruppe hatte hier 1968 - 1969 ihr Studio im Schloss Nörvenich eingerichtet.

Anonymous 11/09/14 (Sun) 19:39:22 No.216

>>214
http://vocaroo.com/i/s19jJ4rPyImJ

Portuguese 11/09/14 (Sun) 20:45:31 No.223

>>216
not too bad
>Rockgruppe
you said Hockgruppe

1968 should be Neunzehnhundertachtundsechzig (Neunzehn-hundert-acht-und-sechzig), but leaving the hundert out is pretty common when speaking and the und is often not really pronounced properly (sounds kinda like achtn-sechzig)

When a word begins with St or Sp the S is pronounced as a Sch. For example Sport sounds like Schport and not like in English sport.

Can is supposed to be an English word btw hehe
here's mine for reference:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0gFQkVHhxV5

German 11/10/14 (Mon) 00:17:44 No.233

>>223
Thank you!
I have a bit of problem differentiating R and H… by your recording, seems like R sounds "harsher". And yeah, I went full retard with the numbers and "Studio"…

For PT, I can either give you some small text OR "tricky" sentences that would help you with pronunciation. Which one would you like?

Anonymous 11/10/14 (Mon) 00:44:54 No.235

>>233
don't make it too tricky, I have not spoken Portuguese out loud yet lel

German 11/10/14 (Mon) 00:58:08 No.238

>>235
OK. Here it comes:

Idéia feia. [open E vs. closed E]
Posso ir no poço? [open O vs. closed O]
Não compraram limões. [a bunch of nasal vowels]
O carro da carta é caro. [RR vs. R]
Ele só caçou e casou. [Ç = /s/, S between vowels = /z/. "Só" has an /s/ sound.]

Anonymous 11/10/14 (Mon) 01:23:41 No.239

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>>238
>not too hard
>this post
damn you don't fuck around
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1ljbPA4A32O
>Ç = /s/, S between vowels = /z/. "Só" has an /s/ sound
shiieeet this doesn't tell me much

Something for you if you want
Der rechtsradikale Rollschuhfahrer macht Halt an der roten Ampel und richtet sein Hemd.

Anonymous 11/10/14 (Mon) 04:39:34 No.243

>>239
Don't worry, mate. I know they're hard, but if you get those correctly, your pronunciation will be perfect.

>Idéia feia / Posso ir no poço?
"Idéia" is perfect. "Posso" needs to be a bit more open, "feia" and "poço" need to be a bit more closed. Also, "poço" is stressed as poço, not as poço.

>Não compraram limões
The "ã" should be more closed, like the U in "but". You got the "ram" in "compraram" perfectly, just the stress is in the wrong syllable (it should be compraram). For verbs, this is important, else people would confuse "compraram" [they bought] and "comprarão" [they will buy].

"Limões" is a diphthong. Pronounce the "e" as an "i".

>O carro da carta é caro
"RR" should be a bit more pronounced. Protip: you can pronounce it as Bach, Haus or Roll; any of those is fine, use the one you feel more comfortable with.

>Ele só caçou e casou
The "s" in "só" should sound like a ß. "Caçou" e "casou" are correct.

Reference audio: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1oho6lnwgTp
I added the "seven oral vowels" [a é ê i ó ô u] to the beginning, so you can compare them.

>Der rechtsradikale Rollschuhfahrer macht Halt an der roten Ampel und richtet sein Hemd.
Nice! No Fischers Fritz! :-D
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1lcxRtV3L3m

Anonymous 11/11/14 (Tue) 05:05:38 No.264

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0kopzUQxc7T

>À l'âge de cinq ans, mes parents ont eu l'idée d'offrir une caricature à mon frère, ma sœur et moi. C'est ainsi que nous nous sommes faits tirer le portrait sur le port de Saint-Malo lors d'une après-midi de juillet. Le résultat fut au-delà des espérances de la petite fille que j'étais : j'y étais représentée avec un nez parsemé de tâches de rousseur et des cheveux frisés dignes d'un monarque absolu. Mes parents, fiers de leur progéniture ainsi représentée, nous ont obligé à afficher le portrait dans nos chambres, ce qui a provoqué l'hilarité de tous mes amis lors des dix années qui ont suivi.

Anonymous 11/11/14 (Tue) 20:13:48 No.278

>>243
>confuse "compraram" [they bought] and "comprarão" [they will buy]
so the tilde also implies a stress on the vowel? I think when there's no stress in the word the penultimate syllable is stressed (so yeah, poço and compraram are wrong that way)
so
>compraram
>comprarão

your R's sound like CH's (as in Bach or machen). It's a slight difference
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1W9JOX5KWA4

Anonymous 11/11/14 (Tue) 20:38:10 No.283

>>278
>so the tilde also implies a stress on the vowel?
Yes. There are rare exceptions to this rule [as órgão - organ], but they're marked by other accent anyway.

Also, ão and am/an/ã sound slightly different even in the same stress: the first one is a diphthong, the "o" there should sound like the "u" in Haus.

>I think when there's no stress in the word the penultimate syllable is stressed
This is correct, but there's an exception - when the word ends in L, R, I, U, N or X, the default accent is in the last syllable.
(Mnemonic: "Linux R" and you'll remember them all)

>your R's sound like CH's (as in Bach or machen). It's a slight difference
I'm considering using the trill (like the guys in Ba-Wü and Bayern) instead… for you, as a native speaker: would this sound ugly or tiring to listen?

Anonymous 11/11/14 (Tue) 23:52:56 No.288

>>283
not really, it's normal in some regions as you said. At most you'll a bit hitlerish lel

Anonymous 11/14/14 (Fri) 13:41:08 No.322

>>288
>At most you'll a bit hitlerish lel
Sorry. I need to try this, just for the lulz.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1gjsw62JjCa

Anonymous 11/14/14 (Fri) 16:02:59 No.325

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>>322
M-mein Führer? Sind Sie es?
I wish I could do the trill

Anonymous 11/30/14 (Sun) 23:45:21 No.394

Ok, there's a forecast for a rainy week here, so I think I'm going to learn some latin…I'm looking at this book: https://archive.org/details/MN40039ucmf_6

Gonna record myself reading aloud as I learn… mainly for my own notes but if anyone can help me that would be great.

I: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0lVMP6JqkNI
II: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0jvf6s5wFfx

Anonymous 12/01/14 (Mon) 00:22:55 No.395

>>394

III: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0XPGiSzdCE3
IV: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1iBxohDFSrk

Anonymous 12/03/14 (Wed) 18:59:12 No.396

>>395
Made it to chapter XI! And now I went back and can understand the parts I didn't get before. I'm also reading a grammar book now.

Anonymous 12/06/14 (Sat) 08:38:22 No.408

>>394
>>395
>>396
Good job, don't give up. Is it coming easy to you?

Anonymous 12/10/14 (Wed) 23:14:20 No.412

>>408
Thank you! It has been easyish mainly because it has been fun. I am taking a pause from it now, though, because I've encountered a practical/relevant to my life reason to learn french instead. so, even though latin is fun, I have to go with the more useful.