Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: I read something in English

If you care to comment on it. It is so easy inside my head and so
freaking hard when it comes out of my mouth. It didn't really came out
at my best but I didn't record it again because I think that's closer to
how my pronunciation would be in real life.
 
Transcript:
The goals of the FreeBSD Project are to provide software that may be
used for any purpose and without strings attached. Many of us have a
significant investment in the code (and project) and would certainly not
mind a little financial compensation now and then, but we are definitely
not prepared to insist on it. We believe that our first and foremost
“mission” is to provide code to any and all comers, and for whatever
purpose, so that the code gets the widest possible use and provides the
widest possible benefit. This is, I believe, one of the most fundamental
goals of Free Software and one that we enthusiastically support.
That code in our source tree which falls under the GNU General Public
License (GPL) or Library General Public License (LGPL) comes with
slightly more strings attached, though at least on the side of enforced
access rather than the usual opposite. Due to the additional
complexities that can evolve in the commercial use of GPL software we
do, however, prefer software submitted under the more relaxed BSD
copyright when it is a reasonable option to do so.
 
First try:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/42070359/test4.ogg
 
 
Second try:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/42070359/test5.ogg
﻿
 
-- 
I'll be reading you,
 
Capitalisation is the difference between helping
your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse

 
 
Your accent is strong but not so strong as to be unintelligible. There are 
words where your "Italian" comes through, notably words with the short-i 
vowel, a sound not found in Italian. Again, this doesn't make the words 
unintelligible, just notable as coming from a foreigner.
 
The cadence is a little off, too, but that's most likely the result of your 
reading, rather than speaking extemporaneously. Nothing to worry about there; 
just notable.
 
Also, FYI, your second link looks like it got "autocorrected" into a broken 
link (you got an "i", a quotation mark and an inverted question mark at the 
end) but I was able to figure it out and removed them.
 
Keep at it. If you heard me trying to speak Italian it would make your day, 
in a "laugh, I thought I'd die!" kind of way. :)
 
-- 
Joey from New York
Among those whom I like or admire, I can findï¿œno common denominator,
but among thoseï¿œwhom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
ï¿œ ï¿œ-- WH Auden
 

 how my pronunciation would be in real life.
 
In questo momento ti trovi in una fase nella quale usi, al posto dei 
suoni inglesi, quelli italiani che pi� vi si avvicinano.
L'unico modo per migliorare � quello di imparare i suoni corretti. Per 
es., "this" non si pronuncia "dis" o "tis". Bisogna usare un suono che 
in italiano semplicemente non esiste. Stesso discorso per la 'r' inglese 
che � diversa da quella italiana.
I problemi pi� grossi si hanno invece con le vocali che richiedono molto 
pi� studio. In inglese, "ship" e "sheep" non sono omofoni, n� lo sono 
"gas" e "guess" o "gas" e "Gus".
Pensa che parole come
   cut
   cot
   cat
   caught
si pronunciano tutte diversamente!
Secondo me non devi semplicemente migliorare la pronuncia, ma proprio 
iniziare a studiarla partendo dai singoli suoni.
Sta poi a te decidere se ne vale la pena.
 
Kiuhnm

 Kiuhnm
 
Pensavo che cot and caught fossero omofoni, sei sicuro che si 
pronuncino diversamente?
 
 

 diversamente?
 
Dipende dall'accento, a quanto pare.
Nell'"americano standard",
   cot rima con not, lot, spot, ecc...
mentre
   caught rima con thought, bought, taught, ecc...
 
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cot
 
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caught
 
 
Kiuhnm

 Kiuhnm
 
IMHO, the vowel is the same. The only difference might be length, with the 
pseudo-diphthong also being a *slight* bit longer and possibly a wee tad more 
open.
 
Frankly I've been acting like an idiot, walking around here saying "cot" and 
"caught" over and over, and at this point I can't tell the difference between 
the two In that way that words have of ceasing to have meanings when repeated 
too many times, I can't remember if I've ever slept on a cot or on a caught. 
:)
 
I also tried this: a fairly standard expression is "not for nothing." I tried 
it with "not for naught," and realized that "naught" is in fact longer, but 
the vowel sounds the same to my AE ears, and I'm thinking the extra length 
might come about solely as a way to distinguish the two homophones.


 
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caught
 
 
Appunto. Le pronuncie sono diverse. La differenza � pi� forte 
nell'accento di New Jersey ma meno forte nell'accento di Massachusetts.
 
 

 open.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_low_back_vowels#Cot.E2.80.93caught_merger
 
 
Kiuhnm

 Sta poi a te decidere se ne vale la pena.
 
Comunque la mia amica americana dice che lei capisce e che l'accento italiano e' sexy. That's good enough for me. :)
 
Thanks to the both of you for your comments, BTW. Much appriciated. :)