Sorry, No Accents Here!
As promised, here is a sample of what I sound like in English and in French, with 'a cat in my throat' as we say on this side of the pond.
Location : La Défense, Paris, France.
Devined by Mathieu at 1/26/2005 03:58:00 PM
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I love the audio. How do you put audio on a blog?
By phone!
It's a little expensive from France, but what wouldn't we do for our readers, eh?
Here's the blogger help file : http://blogger.com/knowledge/2004/06/on-road-with-audioblogger.pyra
Have fun!
still sexy, and i can detect the accent. Did you get many takers on the post cards?
Wahou Mattiou!! Have you ever thought about being an actor? It's a shame you shared the picture first ;)
(BTW would you have the same with "Bond... James Bond")
Gigi
hmmmmm does it make me a bad person to say OMG what a voice.
sigh....
Thank you for all the well wishes on mine and burfica's blogs, it meant alot.
I'm back in all my rare and dignified form by the way.
Are you just thrilled. :0)
Welcome back, Alekx, glad you're mom's some better.
I can't hear an accent at all--I'm impressed!! I've told James that you speak (write) in English better than I do!! ~Lori
Well, I tend to use the two languages for different things, and I think that I'm not exactly the same person depending which language I use.
Kinda like how you're not the same person talking to your workmates, to your friends, or to your family.
So in a way, I do think of Mathew and Mathieu as two different names, not different pronounciations of the same name. Or like two nicknames used with different crowds?
In fact, it's jarring when Americans insist on pronouncing my name the French way. Firstly because they can't. It contains an 'euh' sound which doesn't exist in English. Secondly because that's crossing boundaries I tend to seal pretty tight.
One of my French friends calls me Matiou ('MahTEEoo'), as a joke on that. It started as an annoyance, and now it's a nickname!
There, way more information about how I feel on this issue then you could possibly have wanted when you asked that question :P
Well, Coquette, it's all in the length of the O, then isn't it?
;)
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