> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arthaey Angosii" <arthaey@...>
>
>
>>I recently bought a headset, and today I recorded my first spoken
>> Asha'ille with it. I speak the newly translated Fear Litany:
>>
>>
>>
http://arthaey.mine.nu:8080/~arthaey/conlang/writing/interlinears/fear-litany.html
>>
>> Files are currently in ogg format, but hopefully that won't be a
>> problem for anyone...
>
> It is for me. Neither my .mp3 player nor my new .ra player will pick it
> up.
> My firewall minded computer asks me if I want to save it, and warns me
> against doing so. ;) If I save it, it asks me what I want to do with it.
> If I tell the computer to make Media Player play it, it asks me to
> download
> new material to do that. That's too much work for me. I've never even
> heard
> of .ogg. What is it? Can you do .mp3 ? That's pretty standard.
>
>> It's surprisingly hard to speak a conlang. I had to do several takes
>> of each sentence. I wonder how "American" it still sounds? Any accent,
>> of course, is my non-native speakerness showing through, and not
>> representative of "real" Asha'ille. ;)
>
> I don't pronounce Teonaht correctly. But I mispronounce it fairly
> fluently--lot's of practice. It has much more palatalization than I give
> it
> for my "pretty" little readings. But I don't sound American, I don't
> think;
> I don't in any of the foreign languages I speak feebly. The French
> usually
> take me for British, and the Germans take me for French.
>
> Sally
>