Can someone please listen to this and give me honest feedback on my pronunciation? The song is Joutsen by Uusi Päivää. Kiitos!!

Can someone please listen to this and give me honest feedback on my pronunciation? The song is Joutsen by Uusi Päivää. Kiitos!! from Finland

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  1. Pretty good. I didn’t understand a few words at first but got them after a few listenings. I must’ve listened to this atleast 20 more times after that because I absolutely love your voice!

  2. Great voice for sure! Here are the specific mistakes I catched:

    “Tahtoisin” – put less emphasis on the second t.

    “maailman” – this one might be up to debate but I would keep the double “a”-vocal longer and “i” should only briefly be heard.

    “Jaksatko” – this one was the most problematic. You sung the “a”s as “o”s. Rythm was fine but pronounciation was off.

    “odottaa” – I feel like the “t”s had too much emphasis again.

    “uskallan” – you sung the “u” as “y”. Otherwise great.

    Hope this helps 🙂

  3. I can tell you are not a native singer, but your singing style imitates some Finnish singers where it is not so easy to make out the words, so that kind of works in your favor. I couldnt make out all of the words but I think overall not too bad.

    Edit: Oh yeah, your singing voice is definitely good.

  5. I think the biggest issue seems to be that your vowels are too ”closed” and the sounds in some of the words were blended together too much, if that makes sense. But I think these things are easily fixed. Finnish should be quite easy to read because the language is very phonetic, so every syllable and vowel is pronounced exactly as they are written. So I would just study the Finnish alphabet a bit and try pronouncing the words in these lyrics each syllable at a time. I think it would also help if you opened your mouth a bit more.

  7. I have a guy in Ukraine (fortunately he has not suffered by the current circumstances) who masters my singing. He says that emotion and individuality is important. All mistakes are easily corrected by modern software.

  8. Damn. Pronouncing isn’t so good but your voice is. Could listen hours for that voice. But together those make refreshing variation.

  9. “joku varmaan pielessä” at the end was very close to native pronunciation, otherwise, there’s definitely some room to work with. Great voice!

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