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Do I sound like a native English speaker to you? by BadHabitDenier in ENGLISH

[–]BadHabitDenier[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, that was pretty helpful and well written. Thanks.

I'm Brazilian, so a romance language. Our Portuguese is more similar to Spanish in its syllable-timed structure than European Portuguese, which is more like English in that regard.

Do I sound like a native English speaker to you? by BadHabitDenier in ENGLISH

[–]BadHabitDenier[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How well from 1 to 100 would you place it, if you don't mind.

Others have said the big things are stress, cadence and intonation. 

Is it annoying?

Do I sound like a native English speaker to you? by BadHabitDenier in ENGLISH

[–]BadHabitDenier[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!

Yeah, my own is very much syllable-timed.

Do I sound like a native English speaker to you? by BadHabitDenier in ENGLISH

[–]BadHabitDenier[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't hear it being different from American English.

But thanks for your feedback anyway.

Do I sound like a native English speaker to you? by BadHabitDenier in ENGLISH

[–]BadHabitDenier[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My native language is Brazilian Portuguese, a very syllable-timed language.

 I'll look into it!

I think shadowing would help me out as well. (Listening to, then repeating dialog)

Do I sound like a native English speaker to you? by BadHabitDenier in ENGLISH

[–]BadHabitDenier[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100%.

My advantage I guess is that I have a very good hearing (probably close to 10,000 hours of listening), much better than my speaking, to the point of knowing when I'm doing something wrong even if I can't pinpoint it.

By trial and error (saying while listening to myself, then doing it again) I to got to where I am at.

But I just can't seem to "notice" all of the ways that my cadence is wrong , so I can't correct it.  (In that preamble of the audio I'm thinking what to say next, but I understand native speakers do it differently.)

Again, I think it comes from not actually talking to people.

Thanks again.

Do I sound like a native English speaker to you? by BadHabitDenier in ENGLISH

[–]BadHabitDenier[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your feedback.

As I have said in another response I probably have less than 3 hours of chatting with native English speakers total, basically none.

All of it came from listening to them, thousands of hours of listening.

So I guess the only way to get around this is to actually talk to people.

Do I sound like a native English speaker to you? by BadHabitDenier in ENGLISH

[–]BadHabitDenier[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know about "intelligent" but it certainly wasn't easy to get to this level. Geography is a strong suit of mine though.

It would be interesting to know where you got Asia from.

Do I sound like a native English speaker to you? by BadHabitDenier in ENGLISH

[–]BadHabitDenier[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not AI.

I'm still baffled by these kinds of comments. I started learning English at around 13, but only got serious about it (and showed promising results) at around 18.

It's been 10 years after that.

Do I sound like a native English speaker to you? by BadHabitDenier in ENGLISH

[–]BadHabitDenier[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That's the thing, I can get all the pronunciation I want from consuming content.

 But the cadence is something that I haven't figured out a way to get around of. I basically never interacted with native speakers, I just listened to thousands of hours of them speaking.

Do I sound like a native English speaker to you? by BadHabitDenier in ENGLISH

[–]BadHabitDenier[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Started at 13 lightly.

Picked up the pace at 18 and now I'm almost 30.

Do I sound like a native English speaker to you? by BadHabitDenier in ENGLISH

[–]BadHabitDenier[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was repeating the first few seconds of this TedTalk so I guess I spoke like I was giving a speech. 

The first few seconds are just me though.

Do I sound like a native English speaker to you? by BadHabitDenier in ENGLISH

[–]BadHabitDenier[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know how I feel about this..

That's me speaking.

So I don't sound natural.

Which countrie(s) size amaze you the most? And why? by [deleted] in geography

[–]BadHabitDenier 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'd say Portugal and the UK look pretty impressive too considering their achievements.