Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!
| From: | Joe Fatula <joefatula@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 5, 2005, 7:13 |
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:21:22 -0500, Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
>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
That's rather funny...
I've been told that my German sounds _Mexican_ of all things (though I doubt
most Germans would be aware of the difference between Mexican Spanish and
most other forms). My Russian sounds Kazak sometimes (uvular "q" and "g"
with back vowels, no palatalization, /Z/ > /dZ/, etc.).
Sometimes the vowel harmony rules from Kazak seem to spill over to German
for me, which gets weird looks from people.
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