Eventually, Koval managed to obtain a teaching job there; his students often laughed at his foreign pronunciations for technical terms.
But, he said to me, foreign-language pronunciation, which is prized as essential to the artistry of opera, had been an agonizing problem for him throughout college at the music school of the University of Hartford and in the graduate program at Florida State's conservatory.
She is also able to speak many foreign languages, though her pronunciation is odd.
"He's working on making his voice more weighty, and is improving his pronunciation of foreign names".
IN THE past (on DiA, before this blog existed) we looked at Barack Obama's pronunciation of foreign place-names.
However he has no chance of ever getting the main gig, as he takes the trouble to research and learn the proper pronunciation of foreign names, an attitude distrusted in British broadcasting.
The goal of IPA source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content.
One recent study found that when children aged nine and under were taught music for just one hour a week, research concluded that they exhibited a higher ability to learn both the grammar and the pronunciation of foreign languages, compared to their classmates who had learned a different extracurricular activity.
She was addressing an audience of devoted fans, and nobody wanted her to be anything other than herself: very small, slightly stooped, with a gravelly voice and a vintage Americanese pronunciation of foreign words that come her way (which is quite a lot, when you're talking about opera).
From this reference corpus, mispronunciations, foreign words, or uncertain pronunciations were excluded, but dialectal or regional pronunciations were not.
