12-16-2011, 03:42 AM
(12-14-2011, 08:22 AM)Charybdis Wrote: The narrator is Eva Haddon and I think she did a great job. She can use several voices for the different people and I liked her children's voices best. Her male voices were rather huskily, so the hero sounded like an old man. She was great using German accents as well, making me wonder how it was possible that she didn't know the "ä" in the German word Gräfin must sound like "race" and not like "vase". As "Gräfin" was mentioned 61 times, this became rather irritating.
Some of the better readers will do the homework necessary to make sure foreign words are pronounced correctly, especially those which appear many times in the story. The narrator for Evelyn Berckman's The Evil of Time made the same error with the word Gräfin, pronouncing it "grahfin" instead of "greyfin" or "grefin".
