Let's hear your voices :)

[Virgil]

Well, you asked for it...

tahh

Well, you know how New Englanders pronounce it. But you pronounced it quite normal (normal American, that is) before hand in your natural speaking voice.

That was great. I am laughing, Kathy.

[Koa]

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 !

Absolutely true, that Italians have bad English because of that. But I'm not the average Italian in that, because I had more opportunities to speak English. And I live in the Uk now and I think I improved a lot in these months I've spent here.

[kathycf]

Well, you know how New Englanders pronounce it. But you pronounced it quite normal (normal American, that is) before hand in your natural speaking voice.

That was great. I am laughing, Kathy.

Of course I know how to say "cah" I have lived in Mass my whole life. I think you expect everybody here to sound like Steve Sweeney. Does everybody in New York sound like Fran Drescher? Gosh, I hope not, that would be wicked hahsh. (very harsh).

Some audio clips of Steve and a guide to Bostonese can be found here.

[kilted exile]

Here, its pretty quiet however 'cos my mic is useless

[Niamh]

I dont think your accent is that anglicised Kilted! My friend Elizabeth is scotish but most of the time you forget it because its very anglicised (also because her mum is english)
Where did you live when you where in scotland? you have a very mild almost east coast scottish accent.

[kilted exile]

Where did you live when you where in scotland? you have a very mild almost east coast scottish accent.

hehehehe......thats where the anglicisation plays with it, I am actually from Glasgow

[Niamh]

hehehehe......thats where the anglicisation plays with it, I am actually from Glasgow

Glasgow? you are kidding me! There isnt even a glasgow twang in your accent!

[kilted exile]

Nope, it's glasgow. The accent is a result of a english mother, a gran who would not have her grandson speaking like a damn ned, and speech therapy lessons because of convulsions as an infant which led to me not picking up letter sounds in the correct manner at an early age.

[kathycf]

Nice voice, Kilted! I find accented speech quite nice to listen to. Well, I suppose that seems dumb because everybody has an accent of some kind, but to me as an American I enjoy listening to the speech of those from other countries.

It is interesting how variables other than location affect one's speech. My mother had a very typical Boston accent, I think the kind Virgil thought I would have. But I had many teachers in school who were not from New England, so I suppose I got into the habit of pronouncing "R" s on the ends of words.

I think in a homogenous, stable population you can expect folks to have the same regional accent, but once that population becomes diversified, accents change. I mean, my next door neighbor is from New York state, the college kids across the street are from Puerto Rico and the family around the corner is Vietnamese. They all speak English, but it certainly isn't "Yankee English".

[SleepyWitch]

Niamh, Virgil, Schoko, once you've got a headset (there are really cheap ones around; mine was 10 Euros) all you need to do is plug it in and then click the "start" button in your windows task bar. go to "programmes" and then there should be "accessories" or something there were you can find an audio recorder. it comes for free with windows. there's a red button. click this button to start your recording, click the stop button to stop recording. and save the file when you are done.

for some reason, the stupid thing stops recording after a while and you have to press the button again to continue... at least that's what mine does.

hurumpf, I'm not sure it's called "accessories" in the English version of windows.
maybe kathy nows?

[kathycf]

hurumpf, I'm not sure it's called "accessories" in the English version of windows.
maybe kathy nows?

Yep, it is.

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.

*edit* Here is a more traditional Bahstun (Boston) accent...have a listen! Gedouda here, the bahs on fiya.

[Madhuri]

I wanted to do the recording, but , my mic is not so good. What I recorded for Sleepy's project was very bad recording, a lot of noise in the background and my voice was not more than a whisper (I should have spoken a little loudly). I wonder if people will be able to make out anything if I recorded again.

[Niamh]

you should try it Madhuri!

[Nightshade]

somthing i up with my media player onight everyone seems to be cutting up..and I cant find sleepy at all?:S


HAHA its working sort of... Kilted you could read one of those books that were written in accent?

[SleepyWitch]

Koa, Night, when you go to my "mediacenter" thingy, click where I put a red circle
make sure it's not blocked by your pop up blocker