Things are so busy in the recording studios right now that I even relaxed my usual principle against working on the weekends for a few hours yesterday afternoon - I was taping the exercises for a young kids' EFL book with the charming, elderly Chinese professor they always get to do the female voice for these (and she's only available on weekends, alas).
The trouble with books of this level is that they are rather heavy on the alliteration at times (and quite divorced from reality!):
"Peter the Panda plays the piano ponderously."(Well, no, OK, the adverb probably wasn't 'ponderously', but there certainly was a sentence very like this. Supply your own variations.)
There have been quite a few tongue-twisters even trickier than Peter-the-Panda coming up in the regular workload of late. It is quite a test of my professionalism. See how you get on with.....
"I myself am an immigrant."
"The Halloween holiday falls on October the 31st."
And "What size sports shoes do you want?"
Remember, this is a relentless sausage-factory scenario: there's no time to pre-read and rehearse - it's 5 or 6 solid hours each day of sight-reading. And we pride ourselves on not wasting time by stumbling over phrases like this and needing re-dos. But sometimes, well, there's just no helping it.
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