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So I am practicing my german by singing disney songs...

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http://www.mediafire.com/?suc9uvbvy6mhvu3

That would be Hellfire, otherwise known as Frollo's Wild Ride from the Hunchback of Notre Dame. I realize that I am a tenor and Frollo should be Baritone... Next on the list of songs is Be Prepared from the Lion King.

If the german speakers could let me know if I am butchering pronunciation any, and if the music critics could let me know how much I suck at singing that would be awesome.
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I am neither an expert on pronounciation (i don't know any terms to express how you could do it better) nor on singing (tough i am taking lessons myself right now). So i'll just give some quick input on where you are off in your pronounciation:

0.07: "gerechten" .. 0.09 "strengen" .. 0.17 "sünde" .. 0.18 "verachte" .. 0.28 "ich" (this occurs several times, the "ch" should be softer) .. 0.51 "hölle" (you sing it like the word "höhle", occurs several times) .. 1.10 "rein" .. 1.25 "beschützt" .. 1.29 "sein" .. 1.30 "sünde" (you are mispronouncing the "ü", yours is more like an "u") .. 1.38 "Höllenqualen (hölle/höhle again, and qualen is off too) .. 2.43 "lichterloh" (you are pronouncing the "ch" like a "k", it's softer than that)

Overall, it's pretty good - only a couple of words are really off and "butchered". You have a noticable accent otherwise, i did not point those out here because it's really just a slight accent.
Perhaps someone else can explain how to pronounce the words properly, i am not familiar with any phonetic alphabet or such, so i gave only some rough error descriptions here. I hope that little bit helps.
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Perhaps someone else can explain how to pronounce the words properly, i am not familiar with any phonetic alphabet or such, so i gave only some rough error descriptions here. I hope that little bit helps.
Well, I am not learning german for the first time. Trying to bring my speaking skills up to standard though and I have a lot of idiosyncrasies in my pronunciation that have built up over time and disuse. Your error descriptions have been very helpful. :luv:
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salm wrote:The download button isn´t working for me.
I will see what I can do with alternative hosting.
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If your pronunciation while speaking is as good as it is during this song, you are unlikely to encounter difficulties. Serafina already provided you with a comprehensive list, I'd say none of the items would trouble a normal german conversation.

By the way, did you give the german-language internet tv a try ?

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Raesene wrote:If your pronunciation while speaking is as good as it is during this song, you are unlikely to encounter difficulties. Serafina already provided you with a comprehensive list, I'd say none of the items would trouble a normal german conversation.

By the way, did you give the german-language internet tv a try ?
It has been sporadic (busy busy), but yes.

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