#general:speaking

Here’s my very late Week 1 post for @langblrgang’s year-end challenge. I’m reading a children’s story book in Malayalam, yes it’s very very basic and yes I am reading it at the pace of a snail but at least I am reading Malayalam. Feel free to correct my pronunciation or anything else you notice!

Here’s the other part, my introduction in Malayalam. Corrections also welcome here if you want!

@ohshelearns tagged me in the tumblr accent challenge so now y’all get to hear me talk. I don’t have much of an interesting accent, I just sort of sound generally American and not much else but whatever. These were the questions:

Your name and username.

Where you’re from.

Pronounce the following words: aunt, roof, route, theater, iron, salmon, caramel, fire, water, New Orleans, Pecan, both, again, probably, Alabama, lawyer, coupon, mayonnaise, pajamas, caught, naturally, aluminum, GIF, Tumblr, Crackerjack, doorknob, envelope, GPOY.

What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?

What is a bubbly carbonated drink called?

What do you call gym shoes?

What do you call your grandparents?

What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?

What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

Choose a book and read a passage from it.

Do you think you have an accent?

Would you rather be a wizard or a vampire?

Do you know anyone on Tumblr in real life?

End audio post by saying any THREE words you want.

[ original post with full list of challenges / other posts by me for this challenge ]

Today’s Challenge: Record yourself speaking in your target language and listen to it, taking note of your pronunciation. See if you can find ways to make your speech sound more clear and natural.

oh dear

I will deeply regret posting this, but hey look, I can speak (really poor) Basque! Please ignore my voice and everything about me, and also all the words I’m saying, and also just this entire post in general, and maybe this blog and my existence to boot. Besides that, here are some things I think I could improve on:

When I talk I don’t sound that weird but I stall a lot and my accent slips in those moments

I need to work on talking with more of an actual flow and not worrying as much about getting grammatical structures right

Also, it should be “ondo egongo da” not “ondo izango da”

I need to diversify the things I am saying because there were basically two statements made in this whole thing and it was bad