Thread: Pronunciation

Could you check my pronunciation. Are there any mistakes?
http://files.mail.ru/ZDV3IV

I am not a native speaker so I will leave the details to them. Some things I noticed:

The 'th' and 'h' sounds are not quite correct. Especially the 'h' is often too harsh. The Russian pronunciation of х seems to me to have varying degrees of a rasping quality. You need to eliminate the rasping quality completely.

Sometimes your vowels aren't diphthonged, for instance 'most'. The 'o' here is not a single vowel but a gliding vowel from o to u.

You also pronounced the word 'fibres' with r-e, but it is pronounced as if it was written 'fibers' (which in an American text it would be).

When words end in -ng, the g is not pronounced clearly, and especially not hardened to a k. It is a nasal sound, which I think does not exist in Russian. In general, the hardening of final consonants as Russian has it is absent from English. English has a different effect called 'linking' - the borders of words are more prone to melting into each other than in Russian.

Robin

You sound more German than Russian.

Work on your "th" sound; you pronounce it like "z."
And your short "i;" you pronounced "it" like "eat."
You seem to labor with the "o" sound and stretch it out.

Your intonation is very good! It is clear that you undertand everything that you read.

Try to not say Russian "x" when you mean English "h".
I know this is really tricky... But practice it anyway.

The English "th" sound is tricky for many people. I agree with sperk that you pronounce it in the way that some German people do. Practice that too.

Summary:
Practice 1) "h" and 2) "th"

Could you check my second speech about Esperanto. Are there mistakes?
http://files.mail.ru/7GX5TS