Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!

Emaelivpeith H. S. Teoh:
> Wow. Impressive! It sounds rather Spanish to my untrained ears... is
> this intentional?
The glottal stops, long /n/'s, and phonemic distinction between /i I/
and /e E/ make it sound separate from Spanish to my ears... OTOH,
Spanish *is* the only foreign language I can actually speak at all, so
I would be willing to believe it could influence my pronunciation.

> I couldn't detect any American accent in it. (By which I assume you
> mean American English.) It does sound a bit like Spanish.
The lack of American (and yes, I meant American English) accent
pleases me enough that I can accept a Spanish accent. :)

> then again, I don't know what Asha'ille is "supposed" to sound like. :-P
Hehe, me neither. I'm no native speaker, and I'm not lucky enough to
have informants like you do. ;)

> 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.
Are there no anadewisms for distinctly articulated words? Regardless,
if you (general you, not necessarily Teoh-you) want connectedness,
just practice whatever sentences you want to record until you can
recite them with something resembling "normal" speed and intonation.
Easier said than done, but the practice will get you closer, even if
you don't exactly hit your goal. Like I said, I had to make several
recordings of each sentence so I could pick the most fluent-sounding
one. From what others have said in the past, I'm pretty sure that's
normal for recording conlangs.


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