I am learning three languages at the same time. Those are English, Chinese and Korean. I recorded my voice in each language and up-dated them in my voice blog. Amongst them, my voice in Korean sounds most natural. It sounds similer to my mother tongue Japanese. The consuming time to learn English, Chinese and Korean are 10000, 1500,200 hours respectively. Why does my Korean sound more natural than other languages? Because when I recorded my Korean, I didn’t read any sentences on a paper unlike I did for Chinese. Actually I can not read Korean characters smoothly, so I spoke Korean as I memorized. That’s the reason for it.
If you would like to speak in any foreign language naturally, the best way is to memorize your text book, I think.
Saying is one thing, doing another.
Recorded on 2011/12/21
http://fkja.voiceblog.jp/data/sam8823/1324413785.mp3
recorded on 2011/12/22
http://fkja.voiceblog.jp/data/sam8823/1324500928.mp3