I want to know the (probably many) things that keep me from sounding like a native speaker!
Nuriko Wrote:http://www.snapvine.com/bp/dAuU2A8FEd-bZQAwSFxytASounds quite good, asides from the general flow in places, but I'm sure a bit more shadowing will solve that. By the way, did you solve that 「冒険を」problem? Somebody mentioned that you were saying it like 「ぼうけの」. I think this comes from the temptation to get your tongue involved with ん, but it's a nasal sound that doesn't require your tongue at all. Try saying words like 全員, 店員, 便利, 完了 and 運用. If you get your tongue involved for the ん, you'll mispronounce them to a point that makes them hard to understand.
Anyone care to critique my latest?
Javizy Wrote:Hi and thanks for commentingNuriko Wrote:http://www.snapvine.com/bp/dAuU2A8FEd-bZQAwSFxytASounds quite good, asides from the general flow in places, but I'm sure a bit more shadowing will solve that. By the way, did you solve that 「冒険を」problem? Somebody mentioned that you were saying it like 「ぼうけの」. I think this comes from the temptation to get your tongue involved with ん, but it's a nasal sound that doesn't require your tongue at all. Try saying words like 全員, 店員, 便利, 完了 and 運用. If you get your tongue involved for the ん, you'll mispronounce them to a point that makes them hard to understand.
Anyone care to critique my latest?
I think I may have fixed that problem for the most part. Next month it'll be a year since I made that recording, so quite a lot of shadowing and listening has been done since then! I kinda figured out that you need to pronounce the を with a slight actual w sound if a word ending with "ん” comes before. Does that seem correct?
