Gość: Nevermind
IP: *.chello.pl
27.12.08, 00:07
Hello, (late) Merry Christmas by the way ;]
I study at the College, British english group :) And have a few questions to
ask you.
0. (lol). Why the word "Christmass" is pronounced "krisməs"- instead of
"kraistməs"? :) Coz if i'm correct, the word "Christ" when separate, is
pronounce "kraist", right?
1. Where have you been? I mean in Asia. I would be interested in Thailand :)
I'm wondering about how the teaching looks like over there. Do you happen to
know by any chance? ^^
2. I really like British accent and i would like to improve it, but
unfortunatelly i have no British friends who i could ask various of things
connected to my accent (and i like to ask a lot :)), so i have such a question
for you- do you know anyone with ordinary British accent (like in BBC) who i
could chat with? :) By MSN messenger or Skype etc. I'm 22 years old (male ;]).
Maybe you know somebody who really enjoys chatting and don't mind having a
friend from Poland who is hungry to improve his lg ? ;) I could help in Polish
in exchange, no problem at all :) I even kinda enjoy it if sb's asking about
how to say sth in polish or why is there sth like and not like that etc.
Or maybe you know some website designed for such a purpose :)
3. Do you know any site where i could learn about intonation? Falling, rising
etc. Coz i have some sentence to read for phonetics and i kinda don't know how
:/ There are some remarks for example : HF (high fall), depending on
situation, but i can't read it properly coz i can't memorize them during the
lesson (i mean each tonation).
4. Are you considered to be one of the "posh" people? :D You know, it's funny,
coz my teacher teaches us the british accent, but as i found out, it's
considered ash those used by "posh" Brits lol. And i heard that people who
speaks it, are not very liked by normal society, which upsets me a bit, coz i
like the accent heh. For example a word "cold" < i was taught to pronounce it
as "keuld", and one British guy i spoke some time ago- told me that normal
people don't say that ;) They say it to make fun only, he said it's used by
posh people and that if i said like that among some blokes (around my age)
they would look at me with an evil eye haha.
So generally i want to know how is it with that posh language ;] I should
learn it or not? Or nobody will like me if i speak like that? ;] Obviously i
will never sound "posh enough", coz i'm foreigner, but i don't want anybody in
future told me that i'm trying to brag, coz i don't, i'm just taught to speak
in that manner :)
I can give you the general idea by showing you the accent i'm currently
working on (i have to memorize it and try to say what the guy is saying, in
the same manner). As i heard from the native British, it's extremely fake
(artificial), the was even outraged when he heard that i'm taught to speak
like that! :)
The example:
rapidshare.com/files/177073915/threethings.mp3.html
5. If you can't help me (with finding a normal British guy who i could chat
with), is it possile to send to you some examples of my pronunciation from
time to time and you would tell me what to fix?
Sorry for very long post. When i start, it's hard for me to stop... As i said,
i'm interested in getting some improvements :)
cheers, i hope you can find some time to reply.
PS: sorry for the mistakes if accur, I'm kinda out of time to check the text.