Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!

Quoting Joe Fatula <joefatula@...>:

> 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.
I've been accused of speaking English with, of all things, a Russian accent.

                                                          Andreas