Reading Harry Potter in English and Spanish

Mar 18, 2012 12:27

Inspired by Kseenaa, when she read Ronia, The Robber's Daughter in Swedish and English ( Read more... )

literature, harry potter, english, spanish

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zeph317toho March 20 2012, 03:28:51 UTC
I keep trying to listen to this, but something keeps crashing my plug-in so I can't hear more than a minute of your gorgeous voice. D: But you sound lovely and beautiful, as always, in the little part I can hear. <3

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melluransa March 20 2012, 05:04:20 UTC
Aww, thanks! It means a lot that you say that since my brother has compared me to a wailing brontosaurus and a shrieking pterodactyl. <3 I'm not a dinosaur. I'm a marshmallow. I'm so glad you help me with my self-identity and self-realization.

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zeph317toho March 20 2012, 05:39:55 UTC
I hate to disagree with him because I'm sure he's a nice guy and all, but HE'S WRONG! You are not waily or shrieky at all! >:[ How dare he say such things about you?! And how does he know what dinosaurs sound like anyway, huh? Maybe they had melodious and lovely voices like you have, in which case he would be right. But that's the ONLY way he'd be right. Grrrr.

You are a wonderful marshmallow and I hope today goes much better for you than Monday. <3

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melluransa March 20 2012, 12:48:35 UTC
Awww. You validate my existence as a marshmallow~ ;u; But the nice things I put together for the internet are all cleaned up and lovely sounding because I make them that way! I'm sure I do shriek sometimes. That's ok! I'll be the shrieking marshmallow.

Thanks! It no doubt will. That exam was the hardest one I think I've ever taken in my life. So any day that is not 3-19-2012 is automatically a good day. :) You have a good day too! <3

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kseenaa March 20 2012, 23:07:36 UTC
You have SUCH a lovely voice! :-D Much sweeter then mine (I have such a dark voice :-P). :-) Glad someone dared to do the same thing I did. It didn't catch on, but I am glad you gave it a shoot. :-) And Spanish? It sounds so... MACHO, somehow... X-D *lol* I tried to learn it in school, but I never got it. :-P

I thought you were US-person from start? :-D But you read Spanish really well. :-D Do you have Spanish relatives? :-)

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melluransa March 21 2012, 00:51:09 UTC
Thank you! Your voice is appropriate for dramatic book reading! :-) I liked your voice too. Thank you for doing your book reading! I liked doing this. Macho? X-D

I am! My dad is from Mexico, so I've been exposed to Spanish my whole life. This was difficult to read in places, because I've only read it silently before. Reading aloud is more of a challenge.

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kseenaa March 22 2012, 22:51:55 UTC
Well, I suppose the dramatic part has it's advantages. ;-) Kids like how I do it anyway. *lol*

I actually practiced reading aloud to myself a couple of times before I did it. *laugh* And then I still re-did both of them a few times before I was happy with how it sounded. Well, sorta happy anyway. ;-)

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melluransa March 23 2012, 05:34:07 UTC
You were the smart one who practiced! I considered practicing for a moment, but was too lazy and excited to. So what you hear is what you get! That's my oral reading ability in Spanish. It's a bit spotty, but it's better than nothing.

Yours sounded very practiced and confident. No wonder the kids like it!

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