The first try out

An onset to an audiobook

I hope you will not fall asleep while listening to this!

Author's Note

Please rate my pronunciation.
I was nervous at the time

Reviews

[Jamie]

Although I am not French, I am fairly fluent, and I am told my pronunciation is really good...and so is yours. All you should really work on is your fluidity and maybe the "l" sounds between vowels.

Being American, the only thing I noticed about the English was your w's sound sort of like v's. Other than that, great job!

[Rockebah]

The pronunciation is ok but if you want to perfect it, work on it a bit. I can tell you were nervous in this but thats expected, its a try out. Overall it was good.

[Deborah Leah Krempa]

This was wonderful and different. A job well done. Thank you for sharing. Debileah

[pal]

Nice hearing your voice and the way you say it all.

Wish you good luck, a lot of it

pal

[Tuff Stuff]

Beautiful.
Loved listening to it!
Keep it up.
T.S.

sorry, no speaker on my computer.

[Kimberly]

Your mastery of the language is perfect so I don't think you have to work on that at all. I've never seen an instance where you've used a word incorrectly or used imporper tense which is a more typical mistake in English. Of course, your pronounciation of English is obviously foreign so I would work on that. I don't know if you are considering work for an European company or an American one, but if you're considering one for America, you have to remember that American's have lazy ears for accents. :-)

On Being Rated Top Writer: "On being rated- review" (:01 - :35) is pretty good pronounciation, but you stretch the "iew" on "review" too long. After that :40 - 1:26 is good as well, though I lose that word at that point. It picks back up and you end very well. I'm not an expert on this at all, but I think, overall, you have a tendancy to stretch vowel sounds. Your cadence is lilting (which is good in poetry when things are supposed to rhyme and sound musical, but bad in prose) using too much ephasis on too many words per sentance. Americans tend to make each word the same length and speak almost in a monotone. Work on "V" sounds to make them sound less like "F's" and "W" sounds to make them less like "V's".

I hope this review isn't discouraging because your pronounciation is really good and your vocabulary and grammar excellant. But, there's always room for improvement. Good luck with the career move.

I couldn't critique the French (though from my ear it sounds flawless) because my French is atrocious! I never could get that accent down.

[Tessa]

Your pronunciation is very very good. But it's clear that you're not a native speaker. In English, I can tell by the way you try so hard to emphasize the second syllable instead of the first. It almost makes the rest of the word fade off... In french, I can't really pick out what is wrong. Maybe it's just that I'm used to the Parisian accent which is lighter, and your accent seems more eastern... Maybe Belgian?

In any case, bravo!

[Dizzy-Izzy]

This is the first time I have been treated to a poetry reading by one of the writers here. I really enjoyed it. I love knowing what your voice sounds like and being connected to someone who lives in a different world than me. I did not notice pronunciation errors. Your accent made the reading quite intoxicating... The old railway was my favorite... I could see the cars and the little doll heads in the windows very nice, very nice indeed.

Thank you so much

Kristina

[DeAn]

very nice. I love the french accent too. wish I knew how to speak it and understand it. would love to learn some asian languages too and russian.

great idea. keep'em coming.

l8r g8r
-DeAn