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[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[seela]

I cannot see I quoted you Seela just azuldragon. ( which I will also remove if required).

I can see why you would remove though. I mean, we cannot have you intimidating people that everyone should speak such good French in just a month!

Sorry, I was in a panicky stage when I got your PM and noticed you had posted and quoted someone on this thread, so I wasn't thinking clearly.

Thanks for the flattering comment. It's unnecessary, though.

 

[Azuldrgon]

Great voice and it's nice to hear from men too! It's been mostly women posting so far.

Thank you.

 

[Farawyn]

Thank you.

Such a lighthearted, upbeat sounding Dragon!

 

[seela]

I'm gonna give this thread another bump in case some of the new people would like to join. Also, because I like hearing peoples's voices even more than seeing their face pics, which of course is also delightful.

Vocaroo.com is a site where you can easily record little voice messages. The messages do get deleted after some time, though.
On Soundcloud.com your message is safe and sound until you delete it, but you have to make an account.

 

[aFairy]

if I can get it to work, I will record something to let y'all enjoy my horrible Dutch accent

 

[seela]

if I can get it to work, I will record something to let y'all enjoy my horrible Dutch accent

Ooh, record one in Dutch too! There's lots of us who would appreciate it.

I'm trying to work up courage to post a little something in my very bad French. I chickened out the last time I did it.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[seela]

Ha, here it is. French, most likely a limited time offer, because this is every bit as embarrassing as my Spanish.

I even cracked myself up with my attempt to french.

 

[aFairy]

Ha, here it is. French, most likely a limited time offer, because this is every bit as embarrassing as my Spanish.

I even cracked myself up with my attempt to french.

.. I don't understand French at all, well, besides from some basics, so hooray, I'm so proud of you! Seela! . You have such a wonderful voice

I understand the German tho

 

[seela]

.. I don't understand French at all, well, besides from some basics, so hooray, I'm so proud of you! Seela! . You have such a wonderful voice

I understand the German tho

Let's see how long I dare to leave this one up.

It's a bit choppy German, but it should be pretty understandable anyways.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[seela]

Seela, your French is understandable, well done. Also, I remember the last one, and I think despite not being used your accent is better.

You know, I think most people will be In aWe at how multilingual you are. Your bravery is wonderful but so is that you enjoy language so much.

When I posted the brief recording I was a bit less than a month in with my French I think. I studied French pretty actively until my trip to Paris, which was in mid November. After that I stayed with it, but much less actively, for a few weeks and then the interest just dwindled away, when I picked up Korean.

So I think that extra month and a half of studying did some good for my pronunciation.

French is still the language that feels the most awkward to me, pronunciation wise, of all the languages I speak even a little.

 

[pensivepoet]

Ha, here it is. French, most likely a limited time offer, because this is every bit as embarrassing as my Spanish.

I even cracked myself up with my attempt to french.

I enjoyed that Seela
You have a lovely voice in any language

 

[seela]

I enjoyed that Seela
You have a lovely voice in any language

Thank you.

The French one is horrible (and so is the Spanish) with so much hesitation and stammering, but the others are more normal, I think.

 

[BiBunny]

I've been studying Russian off and on for over a year, and I still don't know enough to make a recording of myself speaking it.

Maybe one day!

 

[midwestyankee]

Ha, here it is. French, most likely a limited time offer, because this is every bit as embarrassing as my Spanish.

I even cracked myself up with my attempt to french.

Bravo! It was not even close to horrible, especially for someone who had been studying French for only two or two and a half months at the time. What caught my ear was that you did a remarkable job of capturing many of the unique vowel sounds in the French words that you chose to use. In addition, the final consonant mix in "etre" confounds many students of French for years but you spoke it cleanly and correctly. Full-sentence fluency takes a while to develop, of course, but at the phrase level your speech sounded very good. Il me plait de vous assurer que c'etait bien fait.

 

[midwestyankee]

I've been studying Russian off and on for over a year, and I still don't know enough to make a recording of myself speaking it.

Maybe one day!

Prepping for a job in the Trump White House?

 

[BiBunny]

Prepping for a job in the Trump White House?

I figured it was a good back-up plan if the Russian mail-order husband(s) thing doesn't work out.

 

[midwestyankee]

I figured it was a good back-up plan if the Russian mail-order husband(s) thing doesn't work out.

If I understand you correctly here, you figured you'd need fluency in Russian to go buy a husband in the retail market rather than rely on mail order?

 

[seela]

I've been studying Russian off and on for over a year, and I still don't know enough to make a recording of myself speaking it.

Maybe one day!

Do it, do it!

My French wasn't exactly stellar, but I still did it, don't be shy to share your Russian too. I'm sure you can put together a few sentences. Follow my example, it doesn't even have to be grammatically correct.

I can think about posting my Russian or Ukrainian after it too.

Bravo! It was not even close to horrible, especially for someone who had been studying French for only two or two and a half months at the time. What caught my ear was that you did a remarkable job of capturing many of the unique vowel sounds in the French words that you chose to use. In addition, the final consonant mix in "etre" confounds many students of French for years but you spoke it cleanly and correctly. Full-sentence fluency takes a while to develop, of course, but at the phrase level your speech sounded very good. Il me plait de vous assurer que c'etait bien fait.

I did good on the vowels? That's very surprising. Vowels are definitely my weak spot in all languages and I've mostly just given up even trying. I'm much more comfortable with consonant clusters than pumping out near close, near back round vowels.

I'll take vtĺcť and šmrnc every day over trying to pronounce, consistently, the difference between a [ɔ] and a [ɒ].

 

[cookiecat]

seela - that was very fun to hear you!

 

[midwestyankee]

Do it, do it!

My French wasn't exactly stellar, but I still did it, don't be shy to share your Russian too. I'm sure you can put together a few sentences. Follow my example, it doesn't even have to be grammatically correct.

I can think about posting my Russian or Ukrainian after it too.



I did good on the vowels? That's very surprising. Vowels are definitely my weak spot in all languages and I've mostly just given up even trying. I'm much more comfortable with consonant clusters than pumping out near close, near back round vowels.

I'll take vtĺcť and šmrnc every day over trying to pronounce, consistently, the difference between a [ɔ] and a [ɒ].

You've been studying those alien writings from Roswell again, haven't you?

 

[seela]

seela - that was very fun to hear you!

Glad you liked it. I only wish more people would join. *wink wink, nudge nudge*

You've been studying those alien writings from Roswell again, haven't you?

You got me. Although to the general populus the language is also known as Slovak.