The '5 Min' Test- week 18 'SENTENCES' recording **Pink to Red badge** šŸ”“ (Awarded Mondays)

OK, people! Here it is - the most boring recording youā€™d ever hear - and yes, itā€™s mine ā€¦

No need to say Iā€™ve recorded about 10 of them alltogether 3 days in a row but ended uploading the most boring one because it seamed the best to me ā€¦ and yet, even there are mistakes ā€¦

Chiers!
Tatjana :slight_smile:

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Done it! Now to find quiet time to record!

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OK, it is possible to do this only using Level 1 and Course 1 vocab :slight_smile: ā€¦

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OK @aran I hope Iā€™m doing this right as I often seem to find myself in the wrong thread! Hereā€™s my pretty awful five minute test - aloud - and no, I am NOT fishing for compliments by denigrating my efforts, just being a realist! :relaxed:

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@carolineparkinson I hope you donā€™t mind me editing your post so that your recording appears as an embed rather than the link.

On the other note: Well done!

Hwyl!
Tatjana :slight_smile:

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No, absolutely dim problem @tatjana And if you tell me how to do whatever it is I need to do to make it less trwbl for you guys, then I will do whatever it takesā€¦ :smile:

You just didnā€™t put the link into new line, thatā€™s all it was to do for me in order to embed your recording. So now you know, when youā€™ll put the recording on here next time, you just need to put it in the separate line. If youā€™re not sure the line is new line, you make two new lines before pasting the link. Discourse software itself looks after the stuff and do it appear as just one line space.

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OK, sounds good @tatjana All I have to gwneud nawr ywā€™r cofio!

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Put it in wrong place before , but Iā€™ve tried - not listened to myself tho - and had an attack of the forget everything nerves

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Okay; hereā€™s my 5-minute recording of the 13 questions! Yes, I could have spent ages repeating it over and over again until it was perfect, but as that is definitely NOT the SSiW way I have decided to let it stand as it is, with its deficiencies:

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Vicky, having just spent ages preparing my own 5-minute recording and just posted it below, I know how hard it is. You sound like you have really given it everything that you have - well done!

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Okay, so I wonā€™t compliment you on how well you really did. Just say that if you were perfect then you wouldnā€™t need SSiW in the first place - just like the rest of us! :slight_smile:

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Da iawn, Baruch. I was going to say ā€œhave a glass of wine after that slick presentationā€ but then ā€¦

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And hereā€™s my attemptā€¦ Similarly alcohol-fixated as @Baruch! (And I did have a beer by my side as I was doing it, for added authenticity!)

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Very unsure if any of this will workā€¦I think this should be my very embarrassing and hesitant answers. I have been working on speed and still sound too slow.
However, itā€™s been just as stressful using soundcloud for the first time. I didnā€™t know I was signing up for ā€œa tech courseā€ too. Used the same approach as speaking to strangers in a strange tongueā€¦bang on regardless and do it quick before you realise what you are doing.

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Itā€™s the best solution for almost everything (apart from brain surgery and building rockets, perhapsā€¦;-)).

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Having submitted my 5-minute recording yesterday, itā€™s so nice listening to everyone else. Makes me feel that weā€™re all in the same boat - learning a new language, struggling, laughing, hopefully all having a great time.
I thought that this 5-minute recording exercise was bizarre when it was launched last month - I donā€™t think that
any more. Itā€™s a great thing. It helps me no end with my listening skills, on which I always need to improve.
Great step forward @aran. Sorry, but I just wonā€™t ask you to be my brain surgeon - no offence I hope.

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I love it when a plan comes togetherā€¦:wink:

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OK, hoping that this might be an encouragement.
Today, I had to update my mobile phone answerphone ā€œgreetingā€ (in English). For some reason, I sounded different to real life.

When I got home, I made a dummy voice recording, again in English. Again I sounded slow and in a Northern accent from 30 years ago. How weird.

Iā€™m taking comfort that Iā€™ll sound better in the wild, both in English and Welsh.

As I said, I hope that will be an encouragement.

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Reit - embarrassing that Iā€™m still salmon-colored, so here goes!

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