Another Language-Bit

[eredien]

For the the writers, linguists, and generally interested people:

The Speech Accent Archive. Listen to people speaking with accents in languages you've never heard of!

Comments

[kassidynet.livejournal.com]

English speaker 13 sounds quite like Terry Pratchett, but the age is wrong, so not him. But for a second I was surprised.

As for the spanish speakers, it's curious that the south american spanish speakers and those from Spain share the same problem with S followed by another consonant at the beginning of a word, and the use of H.

I may have to submit an entry to this.

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

Not so curious. It's a direct result of the Spanish language itself, in which words just don't begin that way.

[kassidynet.livejournal.com]

Hombre, pues también. Although for some reason I thought that maybe it would be closer to dropping off the E in South America due to their being more english influence there. *shrugs* Interesante, si señor.

[zdenka]

Ooh, I'm bookmarking that for future reference.

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

Mind if I post this over at linguaphiles?

[eredien]

Nope!