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Hmm, I only listened briefly but it sounds a normal rate to me. Perhaps the high end of norma; podcasters do want to convey enthusiasm and that often translates
by ajb 2y ago
Hmm, I only listened briefly but it sounds a normal rate to me. Perhaps the high end of norma; podcasters do want to convey enthusiasm and that often translates to speed.
As an aside, some people whose first language is not English speak English too fast, because their first language uses fewer phonemes and hence uses a higher syllable rate to reach the same information rate. I wondered if that might be the case here, but this sounds like a native speaker.
- roncesvalles 2y agoJust an aside, notions of "first language" and "second language" don't work well in Indian and other Asian contexts. Often, the language that people learn first (their "mother tongue") would be a local language (say, Marathi) which eventually ends up being the second- or third-best language that they know, superseded by Hindi and English. So, for many urban middle-class Indians, English is actually their "first language" as in the language they know best, even though it might be the third language in the order that they learned it. (Actually, even the notion of learning them in an "order" applies only loosely because you'd be learning all 3 languages at the same time). This is also true for many Chinese people. E.g. a person's mother tongue may be Shanghainese but eventually they learn Mandarin and English to a much more advanced degree than Shanghainese.
- ajb 2y agoOh, that's good to know, thanks.