Recording 5: rate and connected speech

This time I tried to speak faster and imitate Elena's speech rate and thought groups. I practiced several times listening to each sentence and repeating. I think I did pretty well in speed but I lost in accuracy - forgot some of the /θ/s and my /x/ was worse than before.

Recording 5

Recording 4: intonation

For this recording I tried to focus on intonation - Spaniards tend to speak with a very low pitch, which I find very interesting but quite difficult to imitate. I think I managed to make it lower than usual but I feel my speech sounds quite unnatural.

Recording 4

Recording 3: /d/

Ohh I haven't posted a recording a long time... need to catch up!

In this one, on top of the previous features, I tried to focus on the intervocalic or final /d/, which is close to the English /ð/ - for example both d's in "necesidad". I thought I managed to do it quite well most of the time, but after listening to it, I see that many times I still revert to the alveolar /d/.

I also tried to produce the approximant /b/, for example in "vivir".

What I'm still really bad at is the alveolar tap [ɾ] for the soft "r". More practice!

Recording 3