French speakers recorded English words and sentences. All you have to do is: listen to the
sound file; score the recording on a 7-point scale (roughly: 1 = terrible/unintelligible/very
strong foreign accent; 2 = very bad; 3 = bad; 4 = so-so; 5 = good; 6 = very good; 7 = nativelike/
no foreign accent).
You have no particular point to pay specific attention to; just rate the global English quality
(is it intelligible, is it understandable, is it strongly foreign-accented, …?).
This is the list of the twenty words and sentences that the French speakers recorded:
“full”
“play”
“saw”
“run”
“dear”
“sit”
“party”
“thinking”
“either”
“hello”
“Would you like some Christmas pudding?”
“I think he lives in London now.”
“You should tell him she was asleep.”
“I’m afraid they hate each other.”
“I have got an exam tomorrow.”
“What an interesting lecture that was!”
“I forgot to bring my books with me.”
“I’d like to speak to the manager.”
“She must have been waiting for the bus.”
“He is leaving for Paris today.”
Nothing else was given to them, so if you think you hear another word correctly pronounced,
it is in fact one of the words above, but not correctly pronounced.
For example, if you hear “so” or “seat”, you may assume that the real words were “saw”
and “sit”, therefore the pronunciation is not so good.