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SomehowGeekyPolyglot wrote:Currently desiring to improve my pronunciation of English and others.
I am especially wondering how opera singers can achieve a near-to-native-pronunciation of any language. Some are really able to do that, including a certain well-known polyglot.
linguoboy wrote:SomehowGeekyPolyglot wrote:Currently desiring to improve my pronunciation of English and others.
I am especially wondering how opera singers can achieve a near-to-native-pronunciation of any language. Some are really able to do that, including a certain well-known polyglot.
IME, some are much better than others. And in general they're better at doing this while singing than while while speaking informally. That I think comes from having a very restricted text that you're working on very consciously.
SomehowGeekyPolyglot wrote:For example, there is a (non-opera) singer who speaks German with a rather bigheavy accent. But as for his songs, it greatly differs.
linguoboy wrote:Singers often adopt quite different accents when singing. I remember the first time hearing Sinéad O'Connor speak in an interview and being gobsmacked at how thick her Irish accent was since she shed it completely while singing her early pop hits.
SomehowGeekyPolyglot wrote:Do you know anything on how they adopt them (other than what you already wrote, if applicable)?
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