please call stella
please call stella
It's been a few years. What do you sound like? Make a recording of the passage from this page and post it up here.
Mine: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155 ... a-2015.wav
(I also have ones from previous years if you ask nicely)
Mine: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155 ... a-2015.wav
(I also have ones from previous years if you ask nicely)
Re: please call stella
Here's mine: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0j6qq4OnoAx
I always hate listening to my voice >.< I sound so squeaky.
I always hate listening to my voice >.< I sound so squeaky.
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Re: please call stella
Here's mine, for what it's worth. ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
I generally forget to say, so if it's relevant and I don't mention it--I'm from Southern Michigan and speak Inland North American English. Yes, I have the Northern Cities Vowel Shift; no, I don't have the cot-caught merger; and it is called pop.
Re: please call stella
Who is stella? Why are you making me call her? Why me?!
The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.
If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.
If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.
Re: please call stella
Ok, mine. How do I sound for a non-native?
The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.
If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.
If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.
Re: please call stella
I could've redone my goof up, but I thought my first would be the most natural recording:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s064tVE3LccP
Of course it's just your familiar accent, but I heard several friends in my head as I listened to you speak.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s064tVE3LccP
You sound good. You definitely can tell you were taught RP at school. You have a few intonation issues but pronunciation was as far as I recall spot on.Pole, the wrote:Ok, mine. How do I sound for a non-native?
Hi, do I know you?alynnidalar wrote:Here's mine, for what it's worth.
![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
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Why have you got your head inside a tin bucket?Alces wrote:Mine: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0NiOOjUNkNF
Kyn nag ov den skentel pur ...
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Well, I don't have a microphone, and I don't know which part of my laptop receives the sound, so I probably wasn't directing my voice in the ideal direction.marconatrix wrote:Why have you got your head inside a tin bucket?Alces wrote:Mine: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0NiOOjUNkNF
Re: please call stella
What about recording it using a telephone?
The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.
If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.
If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.
Re: please call stella
This is my recording of the Stella passage.
For the record, I am originally from the Milwaukee area.
For the record, I am originally from the Milwaukee area.
Dibotahamdn duthma jallni agaynni ra hgitn lakrhmi.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
Re: please call stella
A bit staccato and you have a lot of creaky voice but generally fine tbh.Pole, the wrote:Ok, mine. How do I sound for a non-native?
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Here's mine. I had to try it a few times in order to get the level on my microphone right (the first couple of times it picked up too much ambient noise), so I might sound a little different than I would speaking entirely off the cuff. Also, I think I've got some slight nasal congestion. For reference, I'm from Santa Cruz, a town in California about two hours south of San Francisco.
It might be interesting to try this with a non-English elicitation text. Maybe Pole could provide us with one, so us Anglophones can all demonstrate how much worse we pronounce his language than he pronounces ours![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
It might be interesting to try this with a non-English elicitation text. Maybe Pole could provide us with one, so us Anglophones can all demonstrate how much worse we pronounce his language than he pronounces ours
![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
Re: please call stella
I plan to do this but my recording device's SD card doesn't seem to work any more so I'll have to sort that out first.
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If you like. Should I make a separate thread for that?CatDoom wrote:It might be interesting to try this with a non-English elicitation text. Maybe Pole could provide us with one, so us Anglophones can all demonstrate how much worse we pronounce his language than he pronounces ours
![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.
If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.
If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.
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Re: please call stella
Proszę!Pole, the wrote:If you like. Should I make a separate thread for that?CatDoom wrote:It might be interesting to try this with a non-English elicitation text. Maybe Pole could provide us with one, so us Anglophones can all demonstrate how much worse we pronounce his language than he pronounces ours
![Smile :-)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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Here's a recording I made several (plus) years ago. I made a couple of changes to make it more natural to say, and to include a couple of phonemes / combinations of phonemes not covered by the original text:
Please call Stella and ask her to bring these things with her from the store:
Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese,
a can of whole string beans, some brown sugar, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob.
And we also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids.
She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we'll go meet her Wednesday at the train station.
Είναι όλα Ελληνικά για μένα.Radius Solis wrote:The scientific method! It works, bitches.
Re: please call stella
I find the whole passage a bit unnatural because it's invalid grammar in BrE, particularly "meet her Wednesday" (you need an "on" there), and I don't really know what snow peas are (the same as mange-tout?). There doesn't seem to be any concession made towards grammar variance, only phonetic.
Also, I didn't realize I was supposed to say "we will" instead of "we'll" at the end there. I pretty much have the whole thing memorized after all.
Anyway as promised, here's three previous versions of Stella:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155 ... a-2007.mp3
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155 ... a-2010.wav
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155 ... a-2011.wav
(do you think my accent has changed?)
Two of me attempting German (different translations):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155 ... e-2010.wav
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155 ... e-2011.wav
And one of Swedish (I can't speak Swedish, as a heads-up):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155 ... v-2011.wav
Also, I didn't realize I was supposed to say "we will" instead of "we'll" at the end there. I pretty much have the whole thing memorized after all.
Anyway as promised, here's three previous versions of Stella:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155 ... a-2007.mp3
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155 ... a-2010.wav
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155 ... a-2011.wav
(do you think my accent has changed?)
Two of me attempting German (different translations):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155 ... e-2010.wav
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155 ... e-2011.wav
And one of Swedish (I can't speak Swedish, as a heads-up):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/155 ... v-2011.wav
Re: please call stella
Ole hyvä.Boşkoventi wrote:Proszę!Pole, the wrote:If you like. Should I make a separate thread for that?CatDoom wrote:It might be interesting to try this with a non-English elicitation text. Maybe Pole could provide us with one, so us Anglophones can all demonstrate how much worse we pronounce his language than he pronounces ours
The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.
If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.
If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.
Re: please call stella
I forgot how awkwardly forced this passage sounds, haha. Why should I be the one to remind her to get her little brother something to eat? Am I her dad? If so, why am I not calling her myself? And, more importantly, who buys snow peas by the spoonful?
I'm Dutch, by the way, but I'd like you to guess where my husband is from, to see if his accent has rubbed off on me or not:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0nWZa8GmqQW
I'm Dutch, by the way, but I'd like you to guess where my husband is from, to see if his accent has rubbed off on me or not:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0nWZa8GmqQW
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