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[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

Hello!

I have now recorded about a minute and a half of my spoken Russian. But I can't post it here! I can post it to my journal, and to friend groups, but not directly in the learn_russian. And I really don't want to post it publicly in my journal, my friends will laugh at me, (because I sing a song as well!).

So please, anybody who is willing to help me with my russian pronounciation, please comment to this post, and I will put you in a special friend group, and only you will be able to listen to the post.

I would be so thankful, because I dont have any Russian friends that are linguists, and they don't know themselves how they speak, (if I ask them how a combination of words is pronounced they just say it slowly, one word at a time).

Comments

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

What's the problem with posting the link here? You put it somewhere on the Web, didn't you? So, just give us the direct link! (it looks like http://www.mysoundsarehere.com/olydiagronsounds/russian.mp3 or something like that.)

[al-r.livejournal.com]

I would listen to your recording with pleasure. I am a linguist, one of my interests in the Uni was collecting and analysing foreigners' accents :))

[uncle-gora.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind listening to your recording, except I do not quite see how it will be useful to you.
I get the first part when we listen, but then how would we correct you?

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

you tell me if my L is to hard or to soft in a certain possion, and the same with the s and the sh,ch,sch. and you tell me if a vowel is too reducted or sould be reduced more.
It's simple!

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

no, "somewhere on the webb" is in my journal... And I dont want my friends to see it!!!!
but now you have access.

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

merci! You now have access!

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

no you can listen, its in my journal, there are two posts.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Oh come on, there's no such place on the Web as "your journal" -- it is stored somewhere in any case:) Here's your direct link:
http://olydiagron.livejournal.com/data/phonepost/1459.mp3

[malim-praedari.livejournal.com]

I'll be glad to help, although I am not a linguist.

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

it's an lj service they stor it in some sevret place.. I have to make i public, private or just show it to choosen friends. Idont ave the file, i called some phone service and recorded it!

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Well, it's fairly good spoken Russian! The accent is not at all irritating, and you can really pass for a Lithuanian :)
The only problem which shows is the endings of the following type: -нья, --нье, -ния, -ние - you tend to slightly exaggerate them, they need to be a fraction of a bit shorter, and the divider (разделительный мягкий знак) does not need to be accented THIS clearly. But it's really a very small problem, and does not make your accent irritating. I'd say it's a very slight and more or less charming Nordic accent :) And I bet it's much, much better Russian than my spoken English :))

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Well, now you have it, just follow the link I give you :)

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

now you have access!

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

And here's your song:
http://olydiagron.livejournal.com/data/phonepost/1223.mp3

Nice singing :)
The ONLY trace of the accent that shows is in КГБ word - you pronounce it as ка-ге-бе while it's really ка-гэ-бэ - both э, especially the second one (since it's under stress,) should be more open and deep.
That's all. The rest is a native speaker singing. Good ear :)

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

oh!!! Thanks! and the song? How do i find it?

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the links!!!
And for the comments, I will work on that.
Once i wanted to by n albom of DDT, and they gave me albums with childrens songs "Dlya DeTej"! I guess I pronounced it VERY soft.:-)

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

Thanks.
I guess thats why people think I'm saying NE NRAVITSYA, when i say MNE NRAVITSYA. When I make the NE too soft and too long they cant hear the M. I sometimes say мнэ нравится to avoid that missunderstanding...
I will work om that.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Exactly, it's not "де-де-те", it's brutal, drunk, smelly, and masculine ДЭЭЭ - ДЭЭЭ - ТЭЭЭ 8-)

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

you're in! but you can also listen to the links above, but then you wont se my excuses and ogovorki that I havein the posts in my journal...

[gazapa.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

:-)

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

dobro pozhalovat'

[gazapa.livejournal.com]

The song is soo "жАлестная" as our grennies used to say. And I agree with Wolk_Off, there is some Nordic accent, but it is really nice, Tack sa mycket.

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

ot slova zhalost'? does it mean said, vyzyvayushchiy zhalost'?

[gazapa.livejournal.com]

Sorry I meant grAnnies