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Oh… kay. I need your advice.
You all know I’m Russian (if you didn’t - congrats, you know that from now on)), and I certainly have accent (which often makes my speech… complicated). The thing is, I want to improve my English speech. So I read out loud a fragment of a truly nice book (“The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern, do check that one out despite the fact I chose it only because it was the closest book I could grab)), recorded it in slightly “kiddos, here cometh the fairytale” voice mode, and, well, here it is. I’ve been told my mistakes and peculiar pronunciation don’t spoil my speech a lot, but I know I’ve got issues (intonation being the worst part of it).

In short: I want to know my ‘weak spots’.

I want to check if I can be understood right if I speak out loud. I want to show you ZE REAL RUSSIAN ACCENT AHAHAHA sorry, I mean, I really need your assistance with this. Tell me about my main mistakes (I especially chose a huge passage, just to get you more statistics). Even if you’re not interested in linguistic part - you can always listen to a curious passage from a nice book with rather strange accent just for lols, anyway)))

I’m always grateful for a good advice.

Have you got any?

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Posted on Saturday, January 12 2013. Tagged with: the night circuserin morgensternanticipationrussian accentlinguistics is a bitch
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  3. truxillogical answered: You vowels are very soft. It’s soothing—almost hypnotic. Think harsher, quicker vowels. But you really have a lovely voice and accent.
  4. dangersofsincerity likes this
  5. eaglesfire answered: Your accent is lovely! From the perspective of an American, you tend to blur your words together more than most of us but you’re still clear
  6. edwena likes this
  7. 17pansies answered: I’m useless at criticising your speaking voice because I LOVE your accent. Which is no help :)
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  9. slashersivi answered: Unfortunately I just can’t hear it loud enough to provide any concrit, my sound is at 100% do you have any way to boost the vol of the file?
  10. smokingduck said: Also the Cs and Ks I guess. I know the U,Y and Ws are hard, but try to pretend there’s a barely audible E next to them- make them slightly smiling sounds. I dunno, I’m not a speech therapist but my English is as British as the next cockney haha
  11. exitpursuedbyasloth said: (cont..) but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Oh, and just so you know, the ‘b’ in ‘subtle’ is silent (it’s pronounced ‘suttle’). Sorry, the English language likes to troll people like that.
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