Could you check my pronunciation, please?

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nona the brit  #502559  Sat, 19 Apr 08 10:15 AM

You were definitely talking about potatoes! I could understand most of it but there were a couple of words that stumped me. As Mr M said, I'm sure that face-to-face you wouldn't have any real problems communicating.

There are a couple of sounds that you need to work on as they were very obviously 'not English' ... if you are that worried about toning down your own accent. These sounds are very sterotypical of parts of Europe so people will still understand you elsewhere, as we've heard them lots of times before. (We do think this is how Count Dracula speaks though, lol).

You are saying v for w.

You are saying z for th.

 

  
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Zerox  #502586  Sat, 19 Apr 08 11:29 AM
Yes, I was also going to mention that v/w confusion. I've also struggled quite a lot with that since my native language really doesn't distinguish the difference between them. Luckily, I make that mistake extremely rarely nowadays.
  
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Prez1dent  #502934  Sun, 20 Apr 08 09:58 AM
Thank you very much! I'll try to do my best to improve my pronunciation. By the way, could you record your voice saying the same speech? Then I'll be able to compare my pronunciation to yours.
  
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