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Looking for authentic recordings for my students!



frenchfrog
France

Looking for authentic recordings for my students!
 

I am looking for authentic recordings for my students. So if you are a native speaker and willing to help me, here is the procedure:

 

1) Go to the following Audio Dropbox (Click on OK to configure your microphone. You don�t have to leave your email address if you don�t want to):

 
 

2) Record your voice!

Here are the topics I would like you to talk about. Of course you can skip a topic if you don�t want to answer it or if you are simply not inspired!

 

�         Your first / Christian name (if you have an unusual name, could you please spell it?!) (family name: optional)

�         Your nationality / Your origins

�         Your age

�         Your date of birth

�         Your place of birth

�         Your place of residence

�         What you look like (hair, eyes, height, figure, particular features)

�         What you are like (your personality / character)

�         Your family: brothers / sisters, children, etc.

�         Your pets: type � name � age � colour(s)

�         What you like doing / to do in your free time.

�         The countries you have been to / visited and the countries you would like to visit

�         Your dreams

 

The idea is, of course, to have something like �Hello! My name is � I am ��

 

If you have some time to spare, you can also make a recording about your best friend or a member of your family. If you have children, involving them would be great too (It is so rare to find recordings of young native speakers)!

 

Thanks a lot in advance for your PRECIOUS help!
 

20 Aug 2010      





ELOJOLIE274
France

great idea! last year our English assistant recorded himself (level A1-A2), I could send it to you tomorrow if you �d like!
take care!
Elodie

20 Aug 2010     



baiba
Latvia

Hello FF,

I can �t record a podcast for youDisapprove but take a look at this page with authentic kids� voices http://soar2newheights.wikispaces.com/Class+Podcasts

20 Aug 2010     



Greek Professor
Greece

Hi Frechfrog...I would love to help...

Let me see what I can do...
Well with Mozilla it doesn�t work...only with IE
Sorry again  FF but I am not getting the Audio Dropbox.

20 Aug 2010     



Olindalima ( F )
Portugal


Froggy
Would love to help, but  I am not the kind of native you �re looking for. Indeed, I AM A NATIVE. JUST LIKE YOU .  Hug
Have you checked all  xtranormal Voices? Some are really good.
Well, may be just me and my imagination,

So glad to hear from you

Sending Big Hugs, if I can help, whenever, let me know.

A big kiss
Linda

21 Aug 2010     



Jayho
Australia

I �ll give it a go a little later on - I need to wake up properly first and have my morning coffee
 
EDIT:  It doesn�t work for me FF.  When I click on the red record icon it says recording, then 1 second later it says stopped.  I tried numerous times but to no avail.  I did a test on the CLEAR homepage and it was ok. 

21 Aug 2010     



ELOJOLIE274
France

Hi!
why not trying to use audacity? it �s a free software, very easy to use! i �ve done a tutorial (free of charge) if you want to try it!
take care

21 Aug 2010