Hi! I really admire your audiofic work and everything! I've been playing with the idea to start recording audiofics myself for quite a while now, but the thing is that I'm not a native English speaker. My German accent will definitely come out and I won't be able to pronounce some words correctly or do certain accents some characters might have. Do think people would still listen to me and not get distracted? Or do you have tips to improve accents and such? Thank you in advance! ♡
There are lots of non-native speaker podficcers with a rainbow of accents.
And honey, even native English speakers pronounce stuff wrong or have to google “how do I pronounce ______”. I’ve got podfics where I pronounced a word wrong because I’d never heard it said aloud and it’s not one people just use outside of writing and descriptions. I’ve accidentally said things wrong and just never realized it until way later and it was just a mistake.
I recently just did my first podfic where I tried to do Rowena’s accent and THAT was a challenge. I’ve grown up always mimicking things though, quoting them back, doing voices. I’ve never not, so it wasn’t that far a stretch I might end up doing this.
How to get better? DO the thing you’re afraid of and then keep doing it. You get better with practice. Also, start trying to familiarize yourself with the accent. I actually ended up buying a Text-To-Speech program to help me with Rowena’s lines so that the program reads them to me (over and over) and I repeat them (over and over)– somtimes until they stop sounding like words altogether, and until I feel more confident my normal Southern™ drawl and my narration voice or character voices don’t get mixed into someone else’s voice.
Also, I’m sending you all the love and hugs! I know how exhausting writing can get. :)
Thank you so much! I am really exhausted right now. And I have work tomorrow.
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NaNoWriMo is exhausting and killing me.
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