Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 07:56:18PM -0800, Arthaey Angosii wrote:
> 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
[...]

Wow. Impressive! It sounds rather Spanish to my untrained ears... is
this intentional?


> 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 couldn't detect any American accent in it. (By which I assume you
mean American English.) It does sound a bit like Spanish. But then
again, I don't know what Asha'ille is "supposed" to sound like. :-P
Also, the sounds are a lot more connected than I thought. Now I'm
getting scared about recording samples of my conlangs... I seem to
want to articulate every word individually, to a point it'd definitely
not sound fluent.


T

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