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Aloha,
Do you remember one of the first times you heard your own voice on a video or recording and thought, “THAT’S what I sound like?”
Or when you were a kid and you answered the phone and they thought you were your mom or dad? (We’ve all been there.)
You don’t really know what you sound like until you hear your voice either on video or on a recording.
What do you sound like when you speak Hawaiian?
One way to find out is to record yourself.
If you don’t know quite enough Hawaiian to come up with your own sentence structures to practice with, you can read aloud.
Go ahead and use your phone or computer to record yourself speaking or reading out loud. Once you’ve done that, go back and listen to it. There’s no sense in recording yourself if you don’t go back to analyze it.
The next thing to do is to compare yourself to the native speakers you’ve been listening to.
With native speech in mind, what do you sound like when you speak?
How is your pronunciation?
What about your intonation?
(Intonation - the rise and fall of the voice in speaking)
Do you sound like a robot?
(No worries, we all have to start somewhere.)
Here’s a recording of me when I was starting out. NO KO MALUHIA HOOLAUNA ANA
(Terrible! Everytime I listen back to this, it makes me cringe and my ears start to ring.)
Here’s a more recent recording of myself speaking. NO KA MOLOA
(Much better. This sounds miles away from where I was 3-4 years ago. Thank goodness!)
Listening to these 2 recordings should be evidence enough on how recording yourself periodically can have such a profound effect on the way you speak. I am by no means the finished product you should be aspiring to. Listen to native speakers and aspire to them and the way they sound and the way they speak.
Pick a few words or areas you want to focus on and keep recording yourself until you get it!
If you’re feeling really brave, share your recording on social media and remember to tag me! @ka_alala
Me ka oiaio no,
Malu
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