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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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Judge my accent

I've memorised this poem because I have to recite it at school: https://www.artofmanliness.com/horatius-thomas-babington/

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1wegMFwgjJG

Where do you think I'm from? Is my accent incomprehensible like some people say?

(btw sorry for the mispronunciation of proper nouns like "Volaterræ")

  

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It's pretty hard to understand. I get parts of it, but some parts eluded me totally on first hearing. I guess it isn't helped by the fact that there are some unusual words in there too.

  • It's pretty hard to understand.
  • I get parts of it, but some parts eluded me totally on first hearing.
  • I guess it isn't helped by the fact that there are some unusual words in there too.
  • To me, your accent seems native-like at times, and yet still curiously hard to understand.
  • In a couple of places I wondered if I could detect a trace of a German accent.
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It's pretty hard to understand. I get parts of it, but some parts eluded me totally on first hearing. I guess it isn't helped by the fact that there are some unusual words in there too.

To me, your accent seems native-like at times, and yet still curiously hard to understand. In a couple of places I wondered if I could detect a trace of a German accent. However, it has been proven on pre

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