accents
accents
Hello,
What country do you live in currently (thus what accent do you have naturally)?
And also wondering, what fake accents can you talk in?
I'm Canadian, and can speak a really good Indian accent, and I'm also working on an Aussie one.
What country do you live in currently (thus what accent do you have naturally)?
And also wondering, what fake accents can you talk in?
I'm Canadian, and can speak a really good Indian accent, and I'm also working on an Aussie one.
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Canadian (actually near you, Jerian)
I can do (in descending order of quality): Russian, Indian, Received Pronunciation, Glaswegian Scottish, General Irish, Mancunian, Cockney, Australian, German, Kiwi, South African (plus a few more I may have forgotten to mention)
I can do (in descending order of quality): Russian, Indian, Received Pronunciation, Glaswegian Scottish, General Irish, Mancunian, Cockney, Australian, German, Kiwi, South African (plus a few more I may have forgotten to mention)
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I live in the US, more specifically the lower Midwestern state of Missouri and speak what linguists apparently call the south midland dialect. Although I have generally moved away from that and toward more standard General American features.
I really don't know what accents I could do well. I think that I could certainly nail some, but others would undoubtedly think I am getting them way wrong or sound terribly offensive.
I really don't know what accents I could do well. I think that I could certainly nail some, but others would undoubtedly think I am getting them way wrong or sound terribly offensive.
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Being Sweden, I can of course speak with an:
Southern Sweden accent
Northern Swedish accent
Finnish Swedish Accent
Norwegian Accent
Danish Accent
apart from
British English Accent
American English Accent.
Southern Sweden accent
Northern Swedish accent
Finnish Swedish Accent
Norwegian Accent
Danish Accent
apart from
British English Accent
American English Accent.
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Are you then the embodiment of the entirety of Sweden?Shrdlu wrote:Being Sweden
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Come from SE England. Currently live in Catalonia, Spain.
My own accent is Estuary (i.e. posh x cockney). I can do Cockney and Posh pretty well.
Most British accents I can do, though I suspect that a native listener might pick up little discrepancies.
I do a pretty good espanis accent. Jelou, jau ar iu?
My own accent is Estuary (i.e. posh x cockney). I can do Cockney and Posh pretty well.
Most British accents I can do, though I suspect that a native listener might pick up little discrepancies.
I do a pretty good espanis accent. Jelou, jau ar iu?
It was about time I changed this.
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One thing I've noticed about my accents is that I horribly over-exaggerate how they sound, so it sounds significantly thicker than the actual people who speak the accent. After practising me Aussie accent with some friends on Skype for hours yesterday, I watched some parts of 'Crocodile Dundee' and I just kept thinking about how mild their accent is compared to me.
Anyone else experience this?
Anyone else experience this?
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Wait, you were in Crocodile Dundee?Jerian_Nostigia wrote:One thing I've noticed about my accents is that I horribly over-exaggerate how they sound, so it sounds significantly thicker than the actual people who speak the accent. After practising me Aussie accent with some friends on Skype for hours yesterday, I watched some parts of 'Crocodile Dundee' and I just kept thinking about how mild their accent is compared to me.
Anyone else experience this?
I can make my English sound like some northern European L2 speaker's but I can't really do any very well, I'm too loud when I try. I wish I could do Aussie. Western New England accent.
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In this case it was actually correct, because everyone in Sweden can speak with these accents.Hubris Incalculable wrote:Are you then the embodiment of the entirety of Sweden?Shrdlu wrote:Being Sweden
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meltman wrote: Wait, you were in Crocodile Dundee?
No. Just watched it.
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As those who have met me recently can attest (finlay and audiblysilenced, notably), I am more or less bidialectal in American English and Scottish English. I'm also able to pull out a Southern English or Canadian accent when need be, although there are some shibboleths I trip up on from time to time.
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I speak Salvadoran Spanish, and I think I can fake a Madrid Spanish accent and a Vancouver English accent (also in Spanish) pretty decently, though haven't yet tested the former with a native.
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Oh? Could I beg you to record a comparison between your Vancouverite Spanish accent and your Salvadoran Spanish accents?Serafín wrote:Vancouver English accent (also in Spanish)
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I'm American, and since my parents are from Bangladesh, I can do a Bengali accent very well, and in fact some older Bangladeshis can't understand my English unless I talk in a thick Bengali accent. I can do a Hindi accent fairly well, too. Other accents I can do include Russian and South African.
I did have a bizarrely similar (to the original poster's) accident about four years ago, in which I slipped over a cookie and somehow twisted my ankle so far that it broke
Aeetlrcreejl > Kicgan Vekei > me /ne.ses.tso.sats/What kind of cookie?
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You've never sounded fully american to me unless you've been putting it on. I'd say it's american-influenced scottish or something.Rory wrote:As those who have met me recently can attest (finlay and audiblysilenced, notably), I am more or less bidialectal in American English and Scottish English. I'm also able to pull out a Southern English or Canadian accent when need be, although there are some shibboleths I trip up on from time to time.
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We may need to hear all of this.Shrdlu wrote:Being Sweden, I can of course speak with an:
Southern Sweden accent
Northern Swedish accent
Finnish Swedish Accent
Norwegian Accent
Danish Accent
apart from
British English Accent
American English Accent.
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Sometimes i'm good at accents, sometimes i'm terrible. I particularly like doing antipodean ones for some reason. Maybe because people are slightly less familiar with them. South African is fun.
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Washingtonian and Texan are my two accents.
I can pull off a Julia Gillard accent when I'm sufficiently steeped in Australian culture.
I can pull off a Julia Gillard accent when I'm sufficiently steeped in Australian culture.
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I said a Vancouver English accent in Spanish.Hubris Incalculable wrote:Oh? Could I beg you to record a comparison between your Vancouverite Spanish accent and your Salvadoran Spanish accents?Serafín wrote:Vancouver English accent (also in Spanish)
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Yes, thats what I said.Serafín wrote:I said a Vancouver English accent in Spanish.Hubris Incalculable wrote:Oh? Could I beg you to record a comparison between your Vancouverite Spanish accent and your Salvadoran Spanish accents?Serafín wrote:Vancouver English accent (also in Spanish)
If i ever say Vancouverite in relation to language, be assured that I mean that the Vancouverite is L1 English speaking.
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This is called stockholmska.Shrdlu wrote:Being Sweden, I can of course speak with an:
American English Accent.
Online dictionary for my conlang Vanga: http://royalrailway.com/tungumaalMiin/Vanga/
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I'd love for you to try my game out! Here's the forum thread about it:
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Of an Ernst'ian one.
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I'd love for you to try my game out! Here's the forum thread about it:
http://zbb.spinnwebe.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=36688
Of an Ernst'ian one.
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I live in northern California, and I can do a fake Generic Foreign accent, Australian accent, RP, and a terrible South African one.
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Accents (natural):
English (American), Not a very strong one, though, but it is certainly not from the Isles.
Catalan (Standard/Ebrenc), my standard speech got mixed up with the Ebrenc ways when I lived there.
Spanish (Catalan), my Spanish is so tainted it would physically hurt some traditionalists.
Thai (Farang), mai... mai ao...
Accents (Forced):
British (posh)
British (rough)
Northern English
Russian english
Indian
Thai
Southern State's
Country Catalan
Ghetto Spanish
Middle eastern
~Lyra
English (American), Not a very strong one, though, but it is certainly not from the Isles.
Catalan (Standard/Ebrenc), my standard speech got mixed up with the Ebrenc ways when I lived there.
Spanish (Catalan), my Spanish is so tainted it would physically hurt some traditionalists.
Thai (Farang), mai... mai ao...
Accents (Forced):
British (posh)
British (rough)
Northern English
Russian english
Indian
Thai
Southern State's
Country Catalan
Ghetto Spanish
Middle eastern
~Lyra
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From yonder, in the land of TWC.
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Re: accents
I'm American and have a pretty typical Upper-Midwestern "Fargo" accent.
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I am a Wisconsinite here, speaking an Inland North dialect with Upper Midwestern influences.
(I can try to approximate General American, but I find it hard to do it quite well, and in particular I find it very hard to pronounce GA /r/ and /l/ so I almost always use those even when I otherwise am largely approximating GA.)
(I can try to approximate General American, but I find it hard to do it quite well, and in particular I find it very hard to pronounce GA /r/ and /l/ so I almost always use those even when I otherwise am largely approximating GA.)
Dibotahamdn duthma jallni agaynni ra hgitn lakrhmi.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.
Amuhawr jalla vowa vta hlakrhi hdm duthmi xaja.
Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro. Irdro.