Thread: Mastering general American pronunciation step by step

Originally Posted by fortheether

Can you rerecord the words but don't stress the vowels so much?

Here you go

[a:] words, not that stressed

[o:] words, not that stressed

The 'a' sounds are too long. If you want to list the words, I'll record them.


Scott

Originally Posted by iCake

Here you go

[a:] words, not that stressed

[o:] words, not that stressed

Originally Posted by iCake

Here you go

[a:] words, not that stressed

[o:] words, not that stressed

Originally Posted by fortheether

The 'a' sounds are too long. If you want to list the words, I'll record them.


Scott

Are car father box.

Warm form torn bore/boar.

Am I hearing them right? If those are the words, then you are very very close.

The pronunciations sound quite good! Some of the r sounds are a little hard, first set.
There are some artifacts of the recording process that interfere with the sounds. Mic too close?

Originally Posted by Seraph

Are car father box.

Warm form torn bore/boar.

Well, the words are:
arm car father box
warm form torn born

Two mistakes then, but I won't be upset though as long as you can hear good vowels there, because they are what I'm working on right now and it seems that I only messed up with some consonants, didn't I? The course covers all the vowels, all the consonants, consonants clusters and so on, so one thing at a time I think, I didn't work on any consonants yet.

Originally Posted by Seraph

Am I hearing them right? If those are the words, then you are very very close

It seems that I'm not that close since you even have to ask what you heard.

Originally Posted by Seraph

There are some artifacts of the recording process that interfere with the sounds. Mic too close?

It's just darn too sensitive, it detects even noises from other rooms, not to mention the ones from outside

Originally Posted by fortheether

The 'a' sounds are too long. If you want to list the words, I'll record them.


Scott

Thanks for all your help, I really appreciate that. I think I will be needing someone to record something for me when I have completed all the sounds from the course, and that something will most likely be some sentences and not just individual words. So right now I'd say I more need that you just keep giving me feedback until then, if that doesn't bother you much, of course

Any time!


Scott

Originally Posted by iCake

Well, the words are:
arm car father box
warm form torn born

Two mistakes then, but I won't be upset though as long as you can hear good vowels there, because they are what I'm working on right now and it seems that I only messed up with some consonants, didn't I? The course covers all the vowels, all the consonants, consonants clusters and so on, so one thing at a time I think, I didn't work on any consonants yet.



It seems that I'm not that close since you even have to ask what you heard.



It's just darn too sensitive, it detects even noises from other rooms, not to mention the ones from outside



Thanks for all your help, I really appreciate that. I think I will be needing someone to record something for me when I have completed all the sounds from the course, and that something will most likely be some sentences and not just individual words. So right now I'd say I more need that you just keep giving me feedback until then, if that doesn't bother you much, of course

Here you go

[a:] words, not that stressed

[o:] words, not that stressed

Father and box are not examples of the american A sound. The A in father is more like the Russian "a" (In fact, that's what the Russian learning textbooks use as an example for Russian pronunciation) and the o in box in between our a and our o.

EDIT: Oh.. wait.. [a:] is exactly what you meant. For some reason I was thinking [ae]
Disregard this.