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June 14, 2005

speech accent archive

haha... i found this site a couple years ago and i always enjoyed listening to other people's accents. last month i was talking to panji and we decided to record our voices and send them to each other.

the text we had to read was this:
please call stella. ask her to bring these things with her from the store: six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother bob. we also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. she can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her wednesday at the train station.

little background on panji: panji is indonesian and he has lived in indonesia, US, singapore and currently living in australia. fluent in bahasa indonesia and english.

bit of my lingual background: first language was french, second language was indonesian, third language was english at 10 years old. lived in genevé, washington d.c, london, and eindhoven. i don't really speak dutch very well, but i understand most of it *selective memory, hahaha*.

then today i was fooling around at work, showing people cool websites and i got etienne to record his voice on my phone. etienne is dutch, speaks both english and dutch fluently.

if you want to send me yours, i'll put it up here as well!

Posted by Yasmina at June 14, 2005 11:52 PM

Comments

hahaha... lucu Yazz! Gue juga mau dong coba rekam... pake apaan yak tapinya?? kaga punya mike di kompie gue neegh...

Posted by: susje at June 16, 2005 12:22 AM

I like this a lot!! Your voice is so cute, Yas! :D

Posted by: Kathya at June 16, 2005 09:34 AM

ah, i tried this a while back and recorded it on my mobile. i had a weird accent. too bad, i've deleted the recording to free some space.

Posted by: thalia at June 17, 2005 01:30 PM

susje, you can use your mobile phone to record your voice reading the text, that's what i did...

Posted by: yasmina at June 26, 2005 03:37 PM

Cute idea, I have to send you mine at some point ;)

Posted by: ninds at July 6, 2005 12:50 AM

waaaa seru banget, yaz! ai mo coba aaahh. ;-)

Posted by: wendy at August 28, 2005 11:00 PM

I think you have an American accent, or perhaps Canadian? It's interesting listening to the differences in your friends' accents :-)

Posted by: Debonaire Daisy at October 9, 2005 05:16 PM