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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.
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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)

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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.
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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.
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Shrdlu wrote:Being Sweden
Are you then the embodiment of the entirety of 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?
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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?
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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?
Wait, you were in Crocodile Dundee?

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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Hubris Incalculable wrote:
Shrdlu wrote:Being Sweden
Are you then the embodiment of the entirety of Sweden?
In this case it was actually correct, because everyone in Sweden can speak with these accents.
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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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Serafín wrote:Vancouver English accent (also in Spanish)
Oh? Could I beg you to record a comparison between your Vancouverite Spanish accent and your Salvadoran Spanish accents?

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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.
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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.
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.

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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.
We may need to hear all of this.

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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.
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Hubris Incalculable wrote:
Serafín wrote:Vancouver English accent (also in Spanish)
Oh? Could I beg you to record a comparison between your Vancouverite Spanish accent and your Salvadoran Spanish accents?
I said a Vancouver English accent in Spanish.

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Serafín wrote:
Hubris Incalculable wrote:
Serafín wrote:Vancouver English accent (also in Spanish)
Oh? Could I beg you to record a comparison between your Vancouverite Spanish accent and your Salvadoran Spanish accents?
I said a Vancouver English accent in Spanish.
Yes, thats what I said.

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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Shrdlu wrote:Being Sweden, I can of course speak with an:
American English Accent.
This is called stockholmska.
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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

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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.)
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