Chinese Student 1 22 American English Accent Evaluation

when I was 10 I was sad a lake suddenly

I hear I didn’t hear the end suddely is

what I heard sudden suddenly suddenly

when I was 10 I was steadily confronted

again on the word confronted I didn’t

hear the end in the Khun PUD I heard qey

confronted confronted confronted with

the anguish of moving from only home I

had ever known on the word only the last

vowel is the e as in she and it sounded

too relaxed too much like it only only

II only only my whole life brief as it

was my whole life brief as it was again

the problem here is the word brief which

doesn’t have quite the pure E as in she

vowel e breathe gracefully touched aways

the laughter and tears are for

generations with has an unvoiced th

ending and you said it here with a

voiced gracefully touched with also you

paused after the word gracefully it’s

actually describing the word touched so

there shouldn’t be a pause there

gracefully touched when the final day

came I rent ran you say Ren which is

exactly how it’s written in IPA ah with

the hmm

followed but as I noted in another blog

entry when it’s followed by an N M or ng

the AH vowel has another vowel before

the consonant it’s not a pure at in

other words and a a a and is that uh

that I’m talking about ran ran I ran ran

when the final day came I ran to the

Haven of the small back porch and a set

alone the word alone just like no

that part needs to be just one syllable

a loan and I’m hearing it more as a low

one so make sure you make that one

syllable loan loan it has the Oh as in

no diphthong and it’s finished by the

end consonant sound but it’s just one

syllable alone chaudhary

shuddering I hear shuddery

we have to make sure there’s that ng

sound at the end uh shuddering

shuddering as tears welled up from my

heart that sounded really good suddenly

I felt a hand arrest out my shoulder I

looked up to see my grandfather the word

grandfather I hear you emphasizing the

Fah but it really should be grand

grandfather and perhaps as a result of

you emphasizing the Fah syllable you’re

placing a real small shadow vowel after

the word grand grandfather but it should

just be grandfather grandfather and you

may note that I’m not even really saying

a D at all

grand father grandfather

it isn’t easy is it Billy now here you

say it isn’t easy all on the same pitch

pretty much but we want to really

emphasize here that it isn’t easy so I

would use more inflection when you speak

here

it isn’t easy or something like that

where there’s more change in pitch to

bring out those words a little bit more

since they are important hey Sarah

softly he said softly

after the D in the word said I heard a

shout a vowel again just like in the

word grandfather he said uh he said uh

softly you are probably doing that I’m

guessing to make sure that you’re in

unseating your D well and in this case

as in many cases said said when it’s

followed by another word you don’t

necessarily bring the tongue down to

make that sound said softly so the

tongue does need to move up say

head into position for the D but then

just go ahead and move straight into the

next word said softly he said softly

sitting down all the stops beside me now

hear down I heard something more like

Dow Dow down so the lips need to come in

to make the second part of the ow as in

now diphthong and then I think also I

was not hearing the N at the end of the

word down mm-hmm

sitting down sitting down on the steps

beside me in general I am very impressed

with your accent excellent work