I really enjoyed your reading. Clear and flowing with the rhymes. And It's very instructional for a non-native speaker. I always thought only German is a language of exceptions to the rules...
This isn't a claim against you, but the general understanding of this text. "The 90% of native speakers" claim is really quite meaningless. For a start, what that statement means is "middle class Britons from the Home Counties form the first decades of the 20th century" - this is really the only time and place in which all the rhymes and other elements genuinely work.
There is not a single version of this on Youtube which is 100% entirely correct. Not even mine! :)
As a middle class Londoner , I'd contest your pronounciation of 'Gouge' - Go-j, As being slightly off standard English. I think it's more like Ga-oo-j. Go-j sounds a bit Devon and Cornwall/ New England / Canada to my ear. 'Ally' is pronounce a-lie. (on your side in a contest or battle) I think you are confused with 'Alley' (pedestrian passage between buildings), which is how you have pronounced it - a-lee. Eye, I, ay are all pronounced the same.
It's 'viscous', not 'vicious'. And 'ay' is another 'I' sound, though 'aye' seems to differ between accents sometimes. The 'g' is not generally silent in phlegmatic.
As good a reading as I've heard though, clear and deliberate.
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I really enjoyed your reading. Clear and flowing with the rhymes. And It's very instructional for a non-native speaker. I always thought only German is a language of exceptions to the rules...
metanoiaparaplui 1 week ago
Also maybe it's different in Canada, but you got gouge wrong =). At least in Britain and America.
LatrommiSumac 3 weeks ago
This isn't a claim against you, but the general understanding of this text. "The 90% of native speakers" claim is really quite meaningless. For a start, what that statement means is "middle class Britons from the Home Counties form the first decades of the 20th century" - this is really the only time and place in which all the rhymes and other elements genuinely work.
There is not a single version of this on Youtube which is 100% entirely correct. Not even mine! :)
brumplum 3 weeks ago
SHE SAID ANT NOT AUNT
domino26000 1 month ago 3
Aunt has an 'ah' sound not like 'lass'.
beccacox98 1 month ago
The G in phlegmatic is voiced, but curiously not in phlegm! Viscous = Vis-cuss, not vish-us.
96/100 - good read!
davidenespana 1 month ago 3
As a middle class Londoner , I'd contest your pronounciation of 'Gouge' - Go-j, As being slightly off standard English. I think it's more like Ga-oo-j. Go-j sounds a bit Devon and Cornwall/ New England / Canada to my ear. 'Ally' is pronounce a-lie. (on your side in a contest or battle) I think you are confused with 'Alley' (pedestrian passage between buildings), which is how you have pronounced it - a-lee. Eye, I, ay are all pronounced the same.
davidenespana 1 month ago
In English-
glass rhymes with arse not ass.
grant rhymes with aunt not ant.
moustache isn't pronounced mosstache.
I never knew hiccoughs were meant to be pronounced hiccups. some people say hiccups and some say hiccoughs.
There are about 3 words there that I'd never seen or heard of.
Thanks for posting it was nice to listen to rather than read.
tijhan 1 month ago
It's 'viscous', not 'vicious'. And 'ay' is another 'I' sound, though 'aye' seems to differ between accents sometimes. The 'g' is not generally silent in phlegmatic.
As good a reading as I've heard though, clear and deliberate.
yasiru89 1 month ago