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My name is Peter Isotalo. I was born in Moscow in 1980 and I grew up in both Sweden and the Soviet Union. My family settled in Sweden in 1990 and I consider myself to be culturally and linguistically a Swede. I used to speak Russian as a second language, but it fell into disuse after moving from Moscow, so it's rather rusty now.
I live in Jakobsberg, a suburb of Stockholm in the municipality of Järfälla. I've completed two terms of linguistics at Stockholm University (SU). I have also taken two semesters of Mandarin at SU and a minor, unfinished, course in Dutch. Before my university studies I took several high school courses in Japanese, German, Spanish, Latin and Russian]. I have done some work as a freelance translator and subtitler. I currently working part time in the gift shop at the Vasa Museum and study history at SU.
I previously went under the handle user:karmosin, so any edit history prior to October 30 2005 can be found here.
Mainly uploader and recorder of pronunciation files in various languages. I accept requests in the following languages:
- Chinese - Peking-esque Standard Mandarin
- English - fairly bland, though accentless, standard American English
- German - northern High German
- Swedish - northern Stockholm Standard Swedish
- Russian - Moscow-dialect
I've made attempts at Arabic, Portuguese and Quechua as well, and if really pressed, I could probably produce pronunciation files in most languages, but consider me a last option when you can't find any native speakers.
