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Japanese Audio Request

per_iocum
210 Characters / 3 Recordings / 8 Comments
Note to recorder:

It's really urgent. Thx in advance!

石川啄木の本名は石川一で、1886年に岩手県で生まれました。小学校時代には神童と呼ばれました。神童というのは、才知の極めてすぐれている子供という意味です。
旧制中学(つまり、今で言う高校)で 金(きん)田(だ)一(いち)京(きょう)助(すけ)と知り合って『明星』を愛読し、特に与謝野晶子(よさしゃのあきここ)の「みだれ髪」が好きでした。 そういうわけで、文学に対する関心が高まる一方で次第に学業を怠るようになっていきました。

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Comments

per_iocum
June 20, 2011

Hi! Thx for your kindness.
It seems to me that you pronounce "呼ばれました" more like "owarimasita", am I mistaken? Google, which has no authority of course, says that it's correctly to say 'yobarimasita'.

seech
June 20, 2011

Very probably your ears are not yet used to hear Japanese pronunciation.
「呼ばれました」, I pronounced it "yobaremashita" and never owarimashita".

I speak faster than the other Japanese people here. However, my speed is normal in Tokyo.

per_iocum
June 20, 2011

I've read your profile and know that you speak fast (did you ever know your voice is very deap if slow it down?). Wow, you all there speak so - how cool is that! I cannot even think with the same speed.
But I don't mind, your record is wonderful, i've uploaded it to my phone to listen today and listened yesterday 100 times!
Yes, very probably you're right, I just need more practice. Thank you!

seech
June 21, 2011

If there's the request to read slow, I'll read more slowly.
I read sentences as if those were spoken in actual situations.

Here is an example.
This is a story of an American girl who studies in Japan.
I tried to imitate girls' intonation.
http://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/Looja/5987/

per_iocum
June 21, 2011

Wow, you're talanted actor! Gils' intonation is great.
I'm taking part in a competition of reading japanese texts under Japan Foundation in Moscow, and I wanted very much to speak as much close to native speach as it possible, but now I realize that is incredibly hard! I will highly appreciate if you can try to speak a little bit slowly.

per_iocum
June 22, 2011

No, need, these recording are great and I have to handle it this way. Thanks again, you have a great voice. And when I'm over 100 listenings I even hear those sounds previously hidden. Wow.

seech
June 22, 2011

Please post other entries or something!
I'm ready to read them.
However, please don't post too long entries.
It's difficult to read them without any errors, and I don't want to edit them with audio editor.

per_iocum
June 23, 2011

Yes, i've already understood that - that long one was my 1st here, and little bit after putting it I've tried to record some entries by myself and understood how difficult it is.
I've post several tankas. Do Japanese when read tanka speak with artistic intonation? If do, please, record it so.

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