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