Stanisław Moniuszko, "Verbum nobile",
PRONUNCIATION
PERFORMANCE EXAMPLE: Leszek Skrla [ Ссылка ]
TRANSLATION OF THE POLISH TEXT:
Tell the invigorating sun not to shine from the upper spheres, let the swift, rapid stream stop its flow, muffle its murmur. Tell the birds not to sing, when they were given the singing by the King of the world. Let the spring not attire the trees and fields with greenery.
Can the singing bird be silent? Can the flower lose its colour? Oh, likewise our hearts are deaf to orders. Ignoring the obstacles, the stream flows among the rocks. The young hearts must love, because that’s why God gave the hearts.
LIST OF THE PHONETIC SYMBOLS USED IN THE VIDEO:
[a] like the ‘a’ in ‘cat’ /a/
[b] like ‘b’ /b/
[d] like ‘d’ /d/
[ɛ] like the ‘e’ in ‘met’ /e; ę at the end of a word/
[ɛ̃] nasal ɛ (like in a French word ‘bien’) /ę/
[f] like ‘f’ /f; w: at the end of a word and after ‘s’ and ‘t’/
[g] like the ‘g’ in ’game’ /g/
[i] like the ‘ee’ in ‘feet’ but shorter /i/
[ɨ] like the ‘y’ in ‘myth’ or ‘i’ in ‘sit’ /y/
[j] like the ‘y’ in ‘yes’ /j; i: ia, ie, io, iu/
[k] like the ‘c’ in ‘cat’ /k; g: at the end of a word/
[l] like ‘l’ /l/
[m] like ‘m’ /m/
[n] like ‘n’ /n/
[ɲ] like the ‘ny’ in ‘canyon’/ń; ni: nia, nie, nio, niu/
[ɔ] like the ‘au’ in ‘author’ or ‘o’ in ‘cord’ /o, ą: ął/
[ɔ̃] nasal ‘o’ (like in a French word ‘bon’) /ą/
[p] like ‘p’ /p; b: at the end of a word/
[r] rolled r /r/
[s] like the ‘s’ in ‘snake’ /s; z: at the end of a word/
[t] like ‘t’ /t/
[u] like the ‘oo’ in ‘moose’ or ‘ou’ in ‘soup’ /u; ó/
[v] like the ‘v’ in ‘very’ /w/
[w] like the ‘w’ in ‘will’ /ł/
[x] like the ‘h’ in ‘house’ /h, ch/
[z] like ‘z’ /z/
[ʃ] like the ‘sh’ in ‘ship’ or ‘wash’ /sz; ż: at the end of a word/
[ɕ] clearly softer than ‘ʃ’ /ś; si: sia, sie, sio, siu/
[ʒ] like the ‘si’ in ‘vision’ or like French ‘j’ in ‘je’ /ż; rz/
[ʑ] a little softer than ‘ʒ’, more like the ‘su’ in ‘measure’ /ź; zi: zia, zie, zio, ziu/
[ʦ̑] like the ‘ts’ in ‘cats’ /c; dz: at the end of a word/
[ʧ̑] like the ‘ch’ in ‘chase’ /cz/
[ʨ̑] clearly softer than ʧ̑ (more like the ‘ch’ in ‘peach’) /ć; ci: cia, cie, cio, ciu; dź: at the end of a word/
[ʣ̑] like the ‘ds’ in ‘beds’ /dz/
[ʤ̑] like the ‘g’ in ‘George’ /dż/
[ʥ̑] softer than ‘ʤ̑’ (like a combination of letters ‘d’ and ‘ʑ’) /dź/
