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‘Lord of the Rings’
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Non-native speaker
Accent: German
AuthorNaranoieati
Date: 7/12/2005

Description of what is on the sound file:
In school, of course we learned RP English, but I never managed to stick to its quite weird sound -- well weird, at least for Germans. During the course of time I thus adapted an accent that is not native English, but still better zenn vott tschearmenns ah sett to shpeek laik. It's just the accent everyone in class has (who has not been to America or England yet). In various situations people pointed out that my English would be nicely understandable, though still German coloured. Well, you never get completely rid of an accent I guess, and I have never been to an anglophone country, so no chances to acquire a real, native English accent.

I have been learning English for 8 years.


Transcript of sound file:
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
CHAPTER 1 - A LONG-EXPECTED PARTY

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.
Bilbo was very rich and very peculiar, and had been the wonder of the Shire for sixty years, ever since his remarkable disappearance and unexpected return. The riches he had brought back from his travels had now become a local legend, and it was popularly believed, whatever the old folk might say, that the Hill at Bag End was full of tunnels stuffed with treasure. And if that was not enough for fame, there was aalso his prolonged vigour to marvel at. Time wore on, but it seemed to have little effect on Mr. Baggins. At ninety he was much the same as at fifty. At ninety-nine they began to call him _well-preserved_; but _unchanged_ would have been nearer the mark. There were some that shook their heads and thought this was too much of a good thing; it seemed unfair that anyone should possess (apparently) perpetual youth as well as (reputedly) inexhaustible wealth.
'It will have to be paid for,' they said. 'It isn't natural, and trouble will come of it!'


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