Identifying statements

Howdy, 

First of all I'd love to apoligize for the backroung "music" in my recordings, but since the weather is warm, my notebook (who's an old papa already) decided it was about time to overheat all day.


The first task seemed to be hard and that was confirmed while I was trying to reach absolutely the same intonation and pronounciation as the speaker. When I was imitating the recording simultaneously with the recording uploaded on the souncloud, I felt like it could be with no problem, but the fact is I was only leaded by the recording and copied that. Later on, when I was recording myself, it showed up that it was much harder to follow the same structure, intonation and pronounciation as before since there were nobody to push me forward. Even though I had notes written down and marked words that should be pronounced with stronger stress, I had troubles to do that correctly and I am sure my recording is far way from the original, but still I hope I at least succeded at following the stressed words. The individual task I decided to record was about th sounds again, as there is never enough practice and I know I have had several moments in which I simply tend to forget to pronounce it correctly.
I found some tongue twisters again in order not to have it very simple. As obvious from the recording, it really wasn't much fun. I've been working on the pronounciation of th after a word ending on "s", but no matter how much I've been trying, I still have to make that little pause after the word and before the th sound. That means I'll keep trying and repating the phrases that make me troubles and it will get better! It simply has to. No another result will be accepted.

Hi there,

This week's task was to record ourselves using different kinds of English while speaking - the British one and the American one. Honestly, it's been probably the hardest task so far, especially the British part. I did my best, I did the recording about 8 times, but still I struggled while trying to use the British pronounciation, as it sounded everything but not natural to me. The biggest problem I had was using the words "adults" and "ballet" with a word stress on the first syllable.

What I've found out was that I had been using the British pronounciation of can't instead of the American one in some cases. From now on, I hope I'm gonna use only the American pronounciation.

But I have to admit that even though it took me the most time to do the task, I had the most fun with it.


I wasn't really sure what I wanted to practice, as I know I should practice everything, which I've been doing, but thinking of a singular task, I couldn't decide, but I found a funny tongue twisters on helpforenglish, so I decided to try it! I realized that having more than two words that sound similar in one sentence can easily cause complications when trying to pronouce them correctly, but I am happy to try, as it gave me another knowledge. It was so much fun, even though I almost broke my tongue :D

strong n' weak

Hi,

the first recording was based on reading of several sentences and focusing on strong and weak forms. In some cases I wasn't absolutely sure whether the word should be strong or weak. I tried to do my best and uploaded the 4th recording. There were some words that were followed by a pause, e.g. the third sentence beginning with "Is this the train .. ". That was probably because I have a little problem with pronouncing th correctly (if I don't make a little pause) after words ending with "s". I hope the whole performance sounds acceptable and would be considered good enough though.




The second task was quite fun. I really enjoyed recording those poems and did it for 6 times, just so, because I liked that. But what disappointed me after I had listened to that was that I obviously tend to overact while reciting. Like a little Shakespeare :D. I'd say weak forms of "but", "and" and "of" are no problem, but a weak form of "at" showed up to be way harder to be pronounced correctly. But based on today's experience I can say that with every recording I was becoming better and more fluent, so I'm sure that after practicing it even more there will be no problem even with that weak "at".