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SweetFreedom Posted 11 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Is it clear to your ear?

Is the recording clear?
The text of the recording will be posted for analyzing where the problems are.

  

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Uploading recording is very hard here (repeated failures)
I uploaded it to tynypic.com, but I don't know whether the following link will work or not.

[URL=http://tinypic.com/r/zvy6h2/8]View My Video[/URL]
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SweetFreedomHere's recording:http://tinypic.com/r/zvy6h2/8
After multiple listens I could take a guess at one or two words, but essentially it is incomprehensible to me, unfortunately.
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Thanks for the comment, that is far better than self-deception.
Now I pronounce it slowly and if nobody gets it,I'll post the text for analyzing.

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<embed width="440" height="420" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://v8.tinypic.com/player.swf?file=2krm06&s=8"><br><font size="1"><a href="http://tinypi
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SweetFreedomhttp://tinypic.com/r/2krm06/8
"New ??? journal of medicine"?

If it actually is "medicine" then the stress pattern and pronunciation of the final vowel sound are offputting. "medicine" has the stress on the first syllable only; subsequent syllables are destressed an
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Cool!
The text is: New England Journal of Medicine

Now I read "medicine" as you indicated:


Any improvement?
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Whoa! The recording is lost again.
Drop it then.
I wonder I pronounced "England" so badly as to nobody recognizes it.
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SweetFreedomI wonder I pronounced "England" so badly as to nobody recognizes it.
"England" is unrecognisable. Your version sounds like "yung-ge-lang-ga", or something like that. Apart from the sounds, there seem too many syllables. "England" is two syllables. I think what you are doing is adding extra vowels after the consonant clusters "ng" and "nd". Try to r
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