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 Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:08 am
I'm not sure where this should be so if it's in the wrong forum please feel free to move it or whatever you do with misplaced threads.
I'm talking about an accent in your native language. I have been told I have a strong southern accent even though I think I sound pretty normal. I know I can be alittle "country" (I'm from a rural southern american town) but I didn't know it was that strong. I had some kids ask me why I talk "like that." xd I don't hear it in other people who supposedly have my accent either. Does this happen to anybody else?
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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:13 pm
I do actually.
I am from Georgia, in the south as well. And i can really turn my twang off and on when i want. But my husband loves my natural, non-twangy accent, he's English and it drives him wild.
When i was in the UK, people kept telling me to say words...Aluminum, Hyundai, ya'll..hehe x3
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:23 pm
A tiny bit, yes. xd
I have something a little weird going on with me though. Ever since I was little, my parents would play audio books in the car or in the house almost constantly for me to listen to, and the narrator would almost always be (for some reason) British. This went on for years, as in "for 16 of them." Consequently, a sort of general British accent sometimes infiltrates my speech, especially when I'm frustrated or annoyed. ninja
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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:21 pm
Since the country I am living in is so small, there's no such things as different dialects or accents here (unless you still have an accent of your native tongue or raised in a community which speaks Hebrew, but with a foreign accent), so my own accent is pretty normal.
When it comes to English.. I learnt the Oxfordish (or 'British') English at school from the very beginning, although the teachers themselves weren't English (accept just one; the rest were Americans, Australians and even Russian - but were required to teach the 'Standard' dialect), so I wasn't sure about the accent itself until a year or two ago, when I have been told I have a heavy English one. xd
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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 5:49 pm
Yep I have an English accent when I speak both English and Welsh. Lately I've started to notice other Welsh speakers with English accents and I cringe because I find it sounds horrible. I just laugh at how much they sound like me and then go back to trying to improve my own accent x_o
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:00 pm
Sometimes I do. Especially because I speak Spanish with a very heavy Guadalajara accent. Though I usually hear myself speaking normally.
In fact, I've been asked once "hey, do you hear yourself speaking normally?". xd
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:45 pm
I'm not considered someone who has an accent, just someone who speaks English. I'm from NJ though so I might have a slight northeastern accent, but if I do, I can't hear it.
When I was in Georgia, however, some considered me to have a 'northern' accent while others asked me "where's your southern accent?" I don't particularly like southern accents though, so I never adopted it.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:21 am
At times. Since I have a lot of friends from Britain (and one from Australia) that I Skype with, I notice my american accent a lot more than most people, I think. But other than that I have a pretty typical Midwestern, generic American accent so far as I can tell.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:35 am
When I was 10 somebody asked me where I was from because allegedly I had no accent (speaking English). Dunno if that's changed cuz I've been in contact with British and American English, which I constantly mix mrgreen I do have an accent speaking German cuz I learned German in Saxony. The accent and dialect, they have here...well it is considered a dialect and and accent used by the lower class.  A typical unemployed ossi (Osten = East, Ossi = someone from east Germany)As for French...well my mum says I don't articulate and stress the words right. It swallow up parts of the word with an English accent.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:04 pm
Yes, I can hear my own.
I think it's because I'm from New Zealand, and the majority of English speaking accents I hear on TV etc belong to Americans, Australians, or the British, so I can hear the contrast.
Plus, learning another language made me more aware of different accents, so that probably helps too.
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:59 am
I suppose I do.
Although I've been told my accent is quite posh for a québécois accent. Not anything close to French-French, or even International-French, but still.
But, yes, I can hear my own accent. Haha.
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:00 pm
Come to think about it, I think it would be funny to learn Guadalajara Spanish, Dixie English, Parigot French and Bayern German.
You know, different contradicting stereotypes in one person. I already am fluent in Argentinian Spanish, specifically Buenos Aires Spanish biggrin
Please note: Don't expect me to speak Québecois French because I loathe it. It's slurred, crooked and incomprehensible. Every time my brother asks me something in Québecois, I answer him in the hardest Paris accent I can make.
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:32 pm
English: Yeah, I have a Utah accent it sounds similar to the Californian, and Nevadan ones but like so:
Fry sauce- Ketchup + Mayonnaise= Fry sauce (You can more stuff to it but it's basically just those two ingredients)
Mou'en- Mountain (Mow (or au if you speak Spanish, German, etc.) glottal stop en)
Gowen- Going
Can'n- Can't
Our and Are are pronunced that same way (ARR!)
We don't say our "t" in middle or at the end of a word.
"E"'s become short "I"'s as sit or fib
Norwegian: Thanks to Miyakoangel and different songs I listen to I can switch from Bokmål (Standard official written form)/Olsosk, Nynorsk (A standard official form but Bokmål is more widely used)Bergensk (her dialect), Bryne, Østlandsk, and some Trøndersk (Northern Norwegian dialects are a lot harder as it's nothing like Bokmål and it makes you wonder what happened to the language).
Japanese: Touhoku-ben, Hokkaido-ben, Tokyo-ben, Kansai-ben (Osaka-ben, Kyoto-ben, etc.) Nagoya-ben. I usually use Tokyo-ben just so that I can be understood if I make a mistake and use Kansai-ben when joking around (as Kansai people typically don't like foreigners and people from other parts of Japan trying to imitate their accent/dialect in a non-convincing way- My friend from Osaka told me this).
French: Belgian, Québecois, Acadian, Swiss, Anything that's not used in Paris (No offense Da Nuke, but they sound like stuck up Grammar Nazis)
German: Standard (I will learn dialects, but it's not that good at German yet. Probably Austrian, Swiss, and Bayerisch, maybe more)
Dutch: Flemish, Southern dialects ( Can't really speak it yet but those are the dialects I want to learn in Dutch)
Danish: Københavnsk (Though my pronunciation is closer to whatever dialect Christian Brøns speaks)
Swedish: Stockholmska (I want to learn Göteborgska so badly!)
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:52 pm
Ohhh myyyy.
Now that I'm in University in North Wales and I hear the way North Walians speak, I can REALLY hear how Southern I sound. It's horrible! I never thought I had a southern Welsh accent. Aagghh XD
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:51 pm
Im from Texas, AND NO WE DONT HAVE COUNTRY ACCENTS!!!!! scream scream
Everyone always thinks that texas is full of country people, it isn't!!!! gonk gonk But I do have a tendency to gain an accent when I speak German and Japanese. 3nodding
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