RotE Audio Books

[londonlassie]

Actually I found it quite difficult even listening to Robin do readings, as she reads with her American accent.

Unusually, I always read the LST characters as English, and the Six Duchies characters as Scottish (when I read Clef's lines aloud with his dialect, I sounded Scottish and it stuck). Normally I give absolutely everyone in books an American accent (despite being British myself), but in these books, despite being by an American writer, it just couldn't fit. The Bingtown Traders for me were very traditional English. The Pirate Isles citizens were all Cockneys, except Kennit who had a posh accent which went Londony when he talked about his childhood because I'm pretty sure Igrot and his etiquette lessons weren't around when Kennit was learning to talk, and Sorcor who has always been and will always be Irish, in my head.

(Kennit's very nearly did my head in, I must admit, but a person has only so many 'voices' in their repertoire unless they are gifted with a *Farseer/Tawny Man spoiler*

I imagine Serilla doing this for me. The woman has the most annoying voice in the world in my head. Maybe it's more the way she speaks and the words she uses, but I imagine her as being irritating no matter what accent she's got. The sort of person I just want to smack.

I do believe that audio books hold an important place though, as KekPafrany has pointed out with her use of them. How wonderful to be able to immerse yourself in another's language, in both text and audio format, while learning it? It is also a fantastic tool for learning our own language and encouraging a love of reading in young ones.

I should do this with the Spanish LST's, if there are any. Does anyone know which languages LST was translated into?