Do i sound American to you ?

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Hello there. Last year i started to learn American pronunciation, it took me very short period to learn it to some level. Now i want to share my pronunciation, and to see what i could improve here. And if you could rate my English pronunciation, please.

Here's the link. I couldn't use forum voice recorder, don't know why so i uploaded it to tinypic.

http://tinypic.com/r/346b4wk/8

Thanks in advance.

Fivejedjon · Accepted Answer

The bad news is that it did not sound at all American to me.

The good news is that many learners would be very happy to have good, clear pronunciation such as yours.

Darko Tomic · Answer

What can you suggest me ? What can i improve to sound more american, or close to it ?

AlpheccaStars · Answer

You did not articulate "pronunciation".
You need to sound the "ve" sound in I've.
Also the first syllable in suggestions.

The accent was neutral - easy to understand - not exactly American, but certainly not British or Indian.

My accent is slightly southern US. There are regional accents in the US, so there is no universal American pronunciation.

CalifJim · Answer

Darko Tomicrate my English pronunciation, please.

Excellent. Almost every syllable was clear and understandable. I didn't quite get your name, however. With non-American names it's a little more important to speak more slowly and clearly because we are not always familiar with the sound of different names throughout the world.

Although it's not a pronunciation problem, one thing that identified you as a foreign speaker was 'how close am I' where it should have been 'how close I am' because it wasn't a direct question.

I only noticed one mispronounced word: suggestion. It has two different 'g' sounds, one for each 'g', hard and soft. 'g' and 'j'. So it's like "sug" + "jess" + "chun".

Your accent did not sound at all British to me, so I suppose we can say that it was an American accent. I doubt anyone in the U.S. would consider it a non-American accent anyway.

CJ

Darko Tomic · Answer

Thank you guys very much, this means a lot to me.

By the way you can pronounce my name very simply. Just pronounce Dark and add O to it, Dark+O = Darko.

Anonymous · Answer

You've got some bits of American pronunciation but, the recording was mostly in your own accent.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

AnonymousYou've got some bits of American pronunciation but, the recording was mostly in your own accent.

There are many "American accents." Here is a guide where you can listen and pick which accent you want to practice.
http://aschmann.net/AmEng/

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