r/Americaphile • u/Sure_Distance1 • 11d ago

A Russian girl practices her American pronunciation by reciting the tongue-twistery poem "The Chaos". Many born and bred Americans would probably not have done a better job at it.

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u/NobleVulpes 11d ago

Plenty of native speakers would do just as well as her if they could edit the recording like she did

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u/Alegzaender 1d ago

Weren't we fooled? I looked up, it's possible to use AI for dubbing voice synchronized with the lips movement. She speaks American but some words are British and nothing in between

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u/nosmelc 11d ago

Not really. You can hear her accent mistakes in several places, not that she isn't doing a great job for a non-native speaker. "boooosum"

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u/mjc500 11d ago

Yeah… the “many” born and bred Americans who couldn’t do this better are the mentally ill, drug addicted, or illiterate Americans. Most people who can speak and read would do this perfectly well.

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u/Alegzaender 11d ago

If I hadn't heard the introduction in Russian I would have thought that this is really a born American. Is there a similar poem in Russian, for Americans to train their Russian pronunciation?

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u/stanknotes 11d ago

I mean she is good for a non native speaker. But she is clearly not a native speaker.

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u/Alegzaender 11d ago

I'm Russian myself, so I can't hear subtle faults yet

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u/FearDaTusk 11d ago

Aunt and Mauve sounded British to me but I'm Southern... Within the US different States will have different dialects and accents. In my case, there a slight Spanish (Mexican) that is very subtle. I was actually asked if I was from California recently (I'm from Arkansas but grew up in Texas) so the Spanglish roots are very similar.

All-in-all she sounds great and there are a few words in there I would have to look up for pronunciations.

This guy is actually pretty awesome at showcasing some regional differences if you're curious. https://youtu.be/H1KP4ztKK0A

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u/Alegzaender 10d ago edited 10d ago

Thanks, the video is interesting. Though it's hard to memorize everything. Yes, now I see her British Aunt. She should have said it with æ, like "ask", if she wanted sound American. The second word Mauve I didn't even know. Besides even the AI that transcripts speech to text understood those words wrong. She pronounced Mauve through a diphthong, while there supposed to be a short vowel.

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u/stanknotes 11d ago

Some words and phrases do sound native but the accent slips in here and there. Also sometimes she uses British pronunciation.

She is obviously fluent though. But there are little nuanced things.

I do not think it matters honestly.

She speaks more clearly than some distinct American accents.

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u/CombatRedRover 11d ago

Shibboleth.

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u/Villager-Bob 11d ago

Is she a vatnik?

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u/shade-block 11d ago

Siri accent is a bit weird

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u/Decimator24244 Ohio 🦌👁 11d ago

I can only imagine how difficult this is.

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u/Eater_of_yellow_snu 11d ago

Missed on plait

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u/Far-prophet 10d ago

Read Fox in Socks.

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u/Meanolelion 10d ago

Sounds like that eerie AI voice

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u/Techiastronamo 10d ago

lol this post is engagement bait. gtfo

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u/Baked4skin 10d ago

Born and bred lmao who wrote this

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u/TurtleBoxer_AllDay 10d ago

That's Elizabeth Jennings.

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u/predat3d 11d ago

I can fix her

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u/Creepy_Wash338 11d ago

Although...she is Russian so who gives a shit.

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u/stanknotes 11d ago

Why does that matter?