Phone Post bil-Malti

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[chelle86.livejournal.com]

Now that's pretty impressive! (the first bit freaked me out though, till you said you were only joking XD i didn't understand a word of the part). I understood the rest of it perfectly though, it basically a guy who almost drowns and stuff like that, I'll try and transcribe it for you later if I manage to finish my studies on time and no one else does.

Practically all the prononciation was perfect, ok, you CAN tell its not someone Maltese whose talking but you didn't make any of the mistakes people usually do. Some of the words you seemed to 'break' into two parts when speaking, while we would have said them in one go. The tempo is mostly what's off, if you know what I mean, but I'm sure anyone over here would understand you if you spoke like that.

[pne.livejournal.com]

you didn't make any of the mistakes people usually do

What are typical mistakes people make?

The bits I was most concerned about, for example, were my pronunciation of ħ, since that doesn't exist in any language I've learned so far, and of q (which I've heard described as a glottal stop, not that hard in principle but when it comes next to other consonants it's a bit weird, and distinguishing between words starting with vowel and those starting with q (since in German, vowel-initial words tend to have a glottal stop in front, so "qit would be like qif qeveryone spoke like this"). And remembering not to pronounce għ, especially at the beginning of words.

The tempo is mostly what's off, if you know what I mean

I think I do--the rhythm, for example. I think knowing what the heck you're saying would go part of the way towards helping this, since you know what groups of words go together and don't just go by the punctuation.

I'm sure anyone over here would understand you if you spoke like that.

Whee! That sounds encouraging. Thanks!

[pne.livejournal.com]

The bits I was most concerned about

Oh, and also vowel length and stress, since neither of those are marked in the usual spelling.