Sometimes a story told with sounds and pronunciations that we are not familiar with, can resonate
deeper due to us listening harder. When we speak to friends who do not speak our language as well as
we do, we speak slower, gentler. We laugh at words mispronounced and spend time talking about the
misinterpretation of certain words and phrases. We are seeing language grow and find its way from them
to us, and us to them.
In March 2012, I asked 25 friends, all non-native English speakers to send me an audio file of them speaking about a person they have loved, a family member, or someone they had strong feelings for. I got some responses promising this, some saying it was too hard, emotionally and practically. Finally I received 8, 7 of which are featured in this book.
When I listened to the first recording by Teresa, I was moved by the honesty and emotion in the words. It was important to me that her accent would travel with the story, on any paths I would take it down. ... humour, filtration, tranlation, transcription, sculptural sound, mouth sculpture, phonetic falsehoods, physical exertion, restraint, manipulation, control, force, hesitant, weary, gutteral, tongues, .....
In March 2012, I asked 25 friends, all non-native English speakers to send me an audio file of them speaking about a person they have loved, a family member, or someone they had strong feelings for. I got some responses promising this, some saying it was too hard, emotionally and practically. Finally I received 8, 7 of which are featured in this book.
When I listened to the first recording by Teresa, I was moved by the honesty and emotion in the words. It was important to me that her accent would travel with the story, on any paths I would take it down. ... humour, filtration, tranlation, transcription, sculptural sound, mouth sculpture, phonetic falsehoods, physical exertion, restraint, manipulation, control, force, hesitant, weary, gutteral, tongues, .....
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