Let's hear your voices :)

[Koa]

Rrright
We were all reading a litte excerpt from the Little Prince in many languages at my other forum, and here is my English one (also known as: learn how NOT to speak English )
http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=ea39f0f

[SleepyWitch]

nice one Koa

[kathycf]

Koa, you speak English quite well.

Here is me, blabbing about Massachusetts, my home state.

Dillon says hello, or bark bark for those members who aren't fluent in dog.

[Schokokeks]

Sleepy, your reading is awesome ! Did I notice a British influence ? I liked the Everyman excerpt best, you should join the Drama Club .

Koa, you've absolutely no reason to worry about your English ! There are a lot of Italian ERASMUS students here at my university, and some of them told me they never get a chance to speak English at their Italian university, which would account for their accent, but now that I've heard you speak, I don't believe you're from the same country ! Your English is very good !

Kathy, I love the Massachusetts promotion ! You have the same skilful intonation newsreaders have .

I'd love to record my own voice, but as Niamh, I don't have the equipment ...

[Virgil]

Oh it's great to hear your voices!! Sleepy you read that great. Have you training in acting? I don't know if it was historically accurate but the dialect sounded just like a Renaissance English accent of Shakespeare's day. Must be the slight German of your personal speech makes it sound distant and older. You sound great.

Koa, you sound just like I imagined. In fact it sounds very much like one of my Italian cousins speaking English.

Kathy, that is not how I imagined your voice. It has no New England accent at all. You sound very much like a teacher, explaining to us Massechusetts.

I wish I could put my voice on there, but I have no clue how. I would imagine I need a microphone.

[SleepyWitch]

Oh it's great to hear your voices!! Sleepy you read that great. Have you training in acting? I don't know if it was historically accurate but the dialect sounded just like a Renaissance English accent of Shakespeare's day. Must be the slight German of your personal speech makes it sound distant and older. You sound great.

Koa, you sound just like I imagined. In fact it sounds very much like one of my Italian cousins speaking English.

Kathy, that is not how I imagined your voice. It has no New England accent at all. You sound very much like a teacher, explaining to us Massechusetts.

I wish I could put my voice on there, but I have no clue how. I would imagine I need a microphone.

i have training in watching Patrick Stewart, hahah
at the moment my english is quite muddled up... one of my brain cells tries to speak RP, the other the slight Coventry accent i picked up in England and the third tries hard to suppress its German accent...

actually, Shaky is said to have spoken with a broad Warwickshire accent (i.e. exactly the region I lived in for a year)

Kathy, I will listen to your description of Mass. tomorrow...

Koa, you do have an accent but it definitely doesn't sound like a typical Italian accent. I couldn't have told from your accent that you're Italian if I hadn't known that anyway.

[kathycf]

Kathy, that is not how I imagined your voice. It has no New England accent at all. You sound very much like a teacher, explaining to us Massechusetts.

I wish I could put my voice on there, but I have no clue how. I would imagine I need a microphone.

Heh, heh, well I sound like most other native Mass people..lived here my whole life. I think for a real "New Englandey" accent you should listen to somebody from northern rural Maine. Even that is diminishing I imagine because people move around so much.

Yup, you will need a microphone. I got a microphone/headset combination from Staples office supply store for just about $13.

[kilted exile]

Yeah, you definitely pick up the coventry part of Sleepy's voice. I will get around to posting mine tomorrow (my only recording device is on my webcam - which I do not currently have hooked up to my computer)

[Petrarch's Love]

It's great to hear all your voices. Each of you has a really lovely speaking voice. I think we should start up a lit. net. radio broadcast--or maybe make up recordings of all the books we've got online heare. However, I had trouble hearing Sleepy's recordings for some reason. All I got is "Now is the winter of our discontent" from the first Richard III, and the others didn't come through at all.

Like Virg. I haven't the foggiest how to record myself for the computer. Kathy, the microphone part sounds fairly attainable and inexpensive, but how complicated is it to set up the computer to get things from the mic. to the forums? Do you need special software?

[Niamh]

hey Kathy you've made me want to find out more about Mass-. It's great to hear your accent! I've always imagined you might have gotten a bit of an irish frim the ex but alas no!
Koa my god you read that really well! (probably better than i could!)

i got to get me a head set!(but than i probably wont know what to do with it after that!

[kathycf]

Hmm, the only software I used is the soundrecorder program. It is standard with Windows usually. I am running windows xp, but I think other versions have it. Try start/programs/accessories/entertainment - that is where my soundrecorder program was hiding.

Once you have the mic hooked up, (and it just plugs into the computer), you run soundrecorder program and start recording your message. I love hearing people talk, so this could be lots of fun!! Petrach, you would need to find somebody to host the sound file, and then paste the link here. I use fileden.

(btw, Niamh, the ex lived in London for the first 12 years of his life. His parents were from Donegal and returned there because London was a bit rough for them. He didn't really have a thick accent at all, not like other people in their town....nor like my ex father in law. I could never understand a word he said, his accent was very thick. I used to just nod and say "mmmhmm". )

[Virgil]

Heh, heh, well I sound like most other native Mass people..lived here my whole life. I think for a real "New Englandey" accent you should listen to somebody from northern rural Maine. Even that is diminishing I imagine because people move around so much.

Well, I would like to hear you pronounce: car, bar, tar, far. And then i'll know whether you're really from New England.

[kathycf]

Well, I would like to hear you pronounce: car, bar, tar, far. And then i'll know whether you're really from New England.

Well, you asked for it...

tahh

[Niamh]

(btw, Niamh, the ex lived in London for the first 12 years of his life. His parents were from Donegal and returned there because London was a bit rough for them. He didn't really have a thick accent at all, not like other people in their town....nor like my ex father in law. I could never understand a word he said, his accent was very thick. I used to just nod and say "mmmhmm". )

I lived with a girl from Donegal when i was in college and it took me a while to understand also! But it could have been worse! It could have been a kerry accent!

[Niamh]

Well, you asked for it...

tahh

you make me laugh Kathy! (well virgil is it New Englandy enough!)