please call stella

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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)

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Adúljôžal ônal kol ví éža únah kex yaxlr gmlĥ hôga jô ônal kru ansu frú.
Ansu frú ônal savel zaš gmlĥ a vek Adúljôžal vé jaga čaþ kex.
Ônal zeh. Ônal zeh. Ônal zeh. Ônal zeh. Ônal zeh. Ônal zeh. Ônal zeh.

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Here's mine: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0j6qq4OnoAx

I always hate listening to my voice >.< I sound so squeaky.

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Here's mine, for what it's worth. :)
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.

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Who is stella? Why are you making me call her? Why me?!
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Ok, mine. How do I sound for a non-native?
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I could've redone my goof up, but I thought my first would be the most natural recording:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s064tVE3LccP
Pole, the wrote:Ok, mine. How do I sound for a non-native?
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.
alynnidalar wrote:Here's mine, for what it's worth. :)
Hi, do I know you? :P Of course it's just your familiar accent, but I heard several friends in my head as I listened to you speak.
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Why have you got your head inside a tin bucket?
Kyn nag ov den skentel pur ...

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marconatrix wrote:
Why have you got your head inside a tin bucket?
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.

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What about recording it using a telephone?
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This is my recording of the Stella passage.

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.

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Pole, the wrote:Ok, mine. How do I sound for a non-native?
A bit staccato and you have a lot of creaky voice but generally fine tbh.

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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 :P

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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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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 :P
If you like. Should I make a separate thread for that? ;)
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Pole, the wrote:
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 :P
If you like. Should I make a separate thread for that? ;)
Proszę! :-)

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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.
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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

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Boşkoventi wrote:
Pole, the wrote:
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 :P
If you like. Should I make a separate thread for that? ;)
Proszę! :-)
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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
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Revivin this thread. Here I am.

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Kintâr-mi ami, ne-tiçma kâ merokli-mi dosi.

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