[lojban-beginners] Re: mp3 files: can you help?

["Karl Naylor" <karl.org@gmail.com>]

On 03/06/07, m.kornig@sondal.net <m.kornig@sondal.net> wrote:

>     (2b) Some of the speakers seem to pronounce diphthongs.
>          In particular the female voice's "re", "vo" and
>          "mu" sound a bit like diphthongs. Is this
>          acceptable/reasonable for listening examples from
>          which others would learn pronunciation?

I thought that the female {re} sounded like {rei}, too.  I'd be wary
of putting out audio materials that might get new speakers into the
habit of pronouncing {e} like {ei}.  Matt's own {re} sounded great to
me.

Also re vowel length, I personally try to keep my {a} long to avoid
confusion with {y}, but maybe that's just a peculiarity of my accent
(ie. perhaps in other accents, a short {a} sounds nothing like {y}).

As ever, the usual disclaimer -- that I'm a beginner and may be wrong
-- applies.

mu'o mi'e .karl.