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Prez1dent Posted 18 years ago
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Could you check my pronunciation, please?

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00Dear native speakers, please check it and say what you think of my accent. I'll really appreciate if you help. If there are some problems with downloading the file, let me know about it. 0250hrefhttp://www.mydata2008.narod.ru/voice.mp3
  

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00 I can't read the page and I have no idea how to listen to it.0-
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0 Try now. Just paste this to your browser's address line:02br
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00Thanks 0250hrefhttp://mydata2008.narod.ru/Voice.mp3
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00I'm really curious to hear the natives' opinions. I had to put on my headphones and turn up the volume, because it didn't sound English at first. Oh, you wanna laugh? Here's what I heard:02br
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01i00I set and wandert, I sutsuh, what an interesting case. I must be from a mythical point of view. What an acquisition I should be took less. Studen
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00Hello, Prez1dent.02br
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00The volume is very low-- I had both my computer volume and the MP3 volume up full, and still would have liked it to be a little louder.02br
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00After going over it several times, I still missed a few words. Your pronunciation is OK, but you definitely have a Slavic accent. Some words are indistinct.
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00I'm sorry for the quality of the recording. I shouldn't have converted it like that yet I didn't want you to waste a lot of traffic. Well, I'm going to make a better recording. 0-
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0 The quality now, indeed, is better compared to the first one. You have, as MM mentioned, a clear Slavic accent. However, that doesn't render your speech incomprehensible and that is the most important thing when dealing with languages, that is, to be understood. Speaking *accent-free English is extremely hard. 02br
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0You were definitely talking about potatoes! I could understand most of it but there were a couple of words that stumped me. As Mr M said, I'm sure that face-to-face you wouldn't have any real problems communicating.02br
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00There are a couple of sounds that you need to work on as they were very obviously 'not English' ... if you are that worried about toning down your own
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0Yes, I was also going to mention that v/w confusion. I've also struggled quite a lot with that since my native language really doesn't distinguish the difference between them. Luckily, I make that mistake extremely rarely nowadays. 0-
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