In which Kyrasantae speaks Finnish...

[kyrasantae]

(...or some brutal mutilation of it. You decide.)

"Greetings to you: Tuomas, Marco, Jukka, and Emppu. I want to let you know, from the bottom of my heart, that I have only the utmost respect for you and everything that you do, and that I wish to thank you all for this opportunity of a lifetime. This is my humble gift to you." (0.95MB)



(You'll find the Finnish text here. Can you believe it? I did approximately 15 takes of this stupid reading. And yes, that's me on the piano in the background.)


*sigh*

Finnish is pretty.


P.S. There *was* an even better take, but then I realized I read "kaikkea" as "kaikkia", annnnnnnnnnd had to do it all over again.

Comments

[fakiiri.livejournal.com]

Heh, it's not a brutal mutilation. Your pronounciation is pretty good. The only thing I really noticed was that you add an h-sound to the end of your pronounciation of t. You even do a good r which is usually too weak for a foreigner with English backround.

Keep up the good work :)

[kyrasantae.livejournal.com]

Gah, those 'r's took years of practice, and I still can't do it consistently (you'd notice if you listened to my singing) :)

I didn't notice the extra 'h's at all, silly aspirated consonants. I know I already naturally tone down the p/t/k consonants so that they aren't spit out in English style. Maybe I'm too conscious about not spitting the 't's and that's what's causing it.