Languages meme

[kdheart]

So sylvaine came up with this and I jumped on it :D


[Unknown site tag]kazuhachen mentioned she'd love to hear non-native English speaking podficcers talking in their own language and I thought YESSSSSS. Because languages. Languages are kind of my favourite. ♥_____♥

So! Podficcers! (And anyone else who wants to join in ♥) Grab your mic (or other recording device of your choice), settle down, & talk to us! (Or, you know, read fic to us.) It doesn't just have to be your native language, either, any and all languages you speak well enough that you're not too embarrassed to record yourself speaking in it will do. :D


In my case, this means Romanian, Italian (kind of rusty), Spanish (yay for telenovelas), French (less than stellar), Latin (though I haven't had to read it aloud before) and Japanese (which I had been sort of avoiding for the past two years). I ended up with about half an hour of me reading stuff, mostly at first sight (which I'm always bad at).

The fics I've read from are:
Romanian - Ultimul Tren written by me and also available in English
Italian - Amore e by iridania 
Spanish - La caja maldita by FujurPreux which I've already podficced here (yes, I'm lazy like that and I didn't want to subject you to another stuttered cold read)
French - chapter 2 of Le temps d'un rêve by malurette (I'm sorry for the horrible French, I really was way rustier than I had thought)
Latin - fragment from Arca Salvii by Lysimache (I wanted to do more, but that was when everyone in the house had decided they wanted to stick around, includin my Grandmother who was reading a book of prayers and I didn't want to go any deeper in hell than I had already made reservations)
Japanese - Problems by pluie de argent

 

Comments

[the24thkey]

Hee, "Because welcome to the Internet" made me crack up. :D

Listening to you read Romanian was really, really interesting! I don't think I've ever heard it before. Are Romanian and Italian close languages or do they just sound similar to my untrained ear?

[kdheart]

Thanks. It's true, though, isn't it? :D

Yes, Romanian and Italian are very close languages (77% similarities according to Wikipedia) and we've borrowed a hell of a lot of words from French during the 19th century, too.

[sylvaine]

Yay, Latin PWP! Also LOL at your grandmother reading a book of prayers while you wanted to record this. :DD (Also your Latin sounds preeeetty.)

I've gotta agree with the24thkey, Romanian and Italian sound really similar! It's really cool, I don't think I'd ever heard Romanian before. :D

[kdheart]

Aww, thank you :D My Latin is kind of stilted, though, because I never actually got to read more than a couple of lines aloud when I was studying it in high school. Unfortunately, I won't be able to do the whole podfic because the author was embarrassed enough to have written it in the first place. I'll just wait until someone else writes another one, I guess.

Not featured on the recording - ample hand gestures while reading in Italian even if the text didn't require it. I'm also very proud of myself that I didn't say the joke about the Pimp, the Pope and the Cardinals. :>

I wish there were good Romanian fan fics (in my fandoms) for me to podfic. All the good ones are unfinished or really bad parodies of the bad ones, because we usually just give up and write in English. I'll have to write one myself.