Your Accents

[Mr Man]

Ok this is a pretty poor excuse for a thread but Ive woundered what everyone sounds like as you cant really tell through text. Just a lil retarded fun for everyone.

Im English, Or british to make it easier. my accent is quite varied, sometimes its incredibly generic and has no hints of slang at all, and then other times I have a northen accent. I dont even come from up north :S
I hate the way in films english people have that really dodgey posh accent, like that dork from love actually whatever his name is and OMG vinnie jones from xmen 3 as juggernaut what the fuck is wrong with him!!

IM THE JAGGERNAUT BITCH!!!!

[MoP]

cockney != posh

[Advocate of Fate]

Ive got a real thick fairfeild county/upper northeastern accent. This means I dont pronounce hard consonants at all (unless its at the beginning of a sentance), dont pronounce some parts of words, and all my words are blended into one mumbley-jumbly sound.
ftw!

[quesadeist]

I'm from Texas, do I really have to say anything else? Honestly I don't think my southern accent is too harsh, but there are particular phrases that come out from time to time. For example, I was with some friends from the northwest and they just about died laughing when I told them I was "fixin' to" take a shower... :\

[seba_boi]

Eh.... Normal Americanized English accent... But Vancouver's pretty multicultural, I sometimes pick up accents of the person I'm talking to...

[DesperateCuban]

well im originally from cuba but i dont really have a typical spanish english accent its more like a light nondescript accent and its not with everyword it kinda pops up from time to time

[Ilaekae]

I gotta true Piksburgh accent that goes in and out depending on how tired I am. Jes aks anybudy. It's kinda like...when yinz wanna go dahtahn, yinz'll hafta redd up yer room and gumband all the shit up so yer old man don' break hiz fuckin' leg and at...

Ain't cool.

It gets worser when I haf'ta talk when ahm reeely tard 'cuz I wuz razed ina imm'grant section of tahn fulla ferners where everybuddy talkt a different langwagshe and y'start ta pick up their accents an' shit an' mush it in wit your'z so y'soun like a real jaggoff an' at...

[JERI]

American. It's a funny thing. I've always just associated with my Kiwi friends when I speak English, but somehow I never picked up their accent.

[Shamagim]

My accent in quite neutral, similar to the cuban accent, so i tend to pick up the accent of the person I´m talking to :).





btw...slow day in the forums...

[magicgoo]

Like, OMG! Native California accent totally, OMGOMG, alright?

[Kian]

I sound like Boromir from fellowship of the ring. If you look on Staz Johnsons website too. In his videos, thats my accent too.

[sweetoblivion314]

Philadelphia, PA, USA
yes i actualy do say "wooder" for water.

[young paddy1]

I apparently sound a bit like Martin Clunes (men behaving badly not that Doc Martin toss) no idea, It's a mix of SE London and Buxton/South Manchester.

More London/Cockerknee if I'm stressed or shocked

[Helium Macaroni]

I beat my native Buffalo accent (mid-western sorta Chicago sounding) with years of musical theater training...

..yeah.. you heard me.. musical theater!

[glynn james]

I have a generic english accent, no slang at all really.

[paberu]

I'm from russia, but I've lived in aus for so long that I probably sound like a typical australian - e.g wota for water.

[Quicksilver]

Er, dunno. Apparently I sound English.

<----doesn't have a trace of a Welsh accent.

Go on CA chat and find out for yourself. :P

[Flake]

Standard Central Scotland here. If you've seen "Trainspotting" that's fairly close.

[EKU_11]

I lived in Australia all my life but many people think that I'm either from canada or america. I find it rather cool.

[cotron]

my accent sounds the same as everyone else on the internet.

[asoir]

Kinda rough cockney :| That's what you get for being brought up in Brixton.
BRUP!
;)

[NoSeRider]

I got a stupid California surfer accent......OK, just stupid.

[Qitsune]

When speaking french I have a relatively generic non-montrealer quebecer accent, some people think I'm from Quebec city tho, but I never lived anywhere near that place. When speaking english, I have a quite thick french/quebecer accent. It's very different from the french from France accent.

[dogfood]

I've found it interesting that in the U.S., no matter where you go, from Maine ("Can't get theh from heah") to San Diego ("dude, you, like, just, totally ate that bug!") the news personalities all sound the same. Very few will give any indication of their place of origin.

I have that accent.

[ah.heng]

in singapore, news anchors speak with american and british accents, depending on what kind of news they're reporting. singaporean accents are a strict no-no, you don't want those damn angmohs (http://www.talkingcock.com/html/lexec.php?op=LexLink&lexicon=lexicon&keyword=Ang%20Mor&page=1) to think we actually have our own culture.

anyway most singaporeans speak like this. (http://media33b.libsyn.com/lndxeJh2bHaTd2N5aHZuqGupZnnE/podcasts/mb/tmbs-060623-early_dont_say.mp3) this is slightly exaggerated, but that's the gist of it. this is slightly less exaggerated (http://media35b.libsyn.com/mXeeeJp2bXbEd2l5ZHdupmqoZXmY/podcasts/mb/tmbs-060619-the_native_speaker_interviews.mp3).

more here.
http://www.mrbrown.com/

[Bowlin]

Sometimes my southern (usa) accent gets really bad. Up north I know when some people hear me they see me as a dumb redneck, but working in a factory in the south the rednecks see me as a trying to be a "gentleman". Can't win at sounding normal. :P

[Blue]

I just sound like an idiot. ;)

[Mr Man]

I didnt know there was a voice chat?!? where abouts is it?

[Kian]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=70563

[DavePalumbo]

I can't hear my own accent, but I'm an American who's lived mainly in PA all my life. I think that I somehow picked up traces of Canadian (probably from movies. Michael J. Fox maybe? watched Back to the Future about a billion times as a kid) on words like "soory" instead of sory. I don't generally have the Philly accent, and definately not the South Philly (which I'm currently surrounded with). I think it's general north-eastern US with lots of odd bits picked up from movies.

And I want to also mention AmishCommy's accent, because it's an interesting one to me. As I understand, the boy is Russian, though I don't hear any kind of obvious foreign accent. What's strange though, is I went to school with a guy who came to the US at about the same age that Arkady did, and the two sound identical. It's weird as hell, I wouldn't be able to tell them apart on the phone. It's this weird Russian non-accent, freaky.

[Redder]

Mix them all together:

cabana boy
flaming metrosexual guy
classic valley girl
urban thrasher
hot headed snowboarder
malibu surfer dude
rodeo drive shopper
leet haxor
ecstatic gay guy
"Hey Granny this ain't the frakking slow line!" driver

[AngryScientist]

I'm trying to sound more like my eastern european self but I can't, it's like that very non-russian accent DavePalumbo talked about, have a very strong american accent when worried or stressed.

[Mr Man]

Gah cant get the chat to work..

[evildisco]

Perfect Lombardy accent when speaking italian.
Russian accent (no idea why, because I am not russian) when speaking english.
Argentinian accent when speaking spanish, plus all the argentinian inflections.

[fionkell]

Australian, but not the "ocker" kind of accent - I'm from Newcastle, not Nowra, lol. When I was younger I had a bit of an Irish accent because of my Mum, apparently. Though for some reason I get people (other Aussies too) asking me if I'm Canadian or even American :|

[NikitaDarkstar]

Ehh if I speak english I got this interesting swedish accent to it (het english is my second language) and I more or less avoid voice chat now cause pepole find it funny (ok low self esteem warning..)... when I speak swedish.. well I'm from Gothenburg, all other swedes will know instantly what that sounds.. it means I don't even admit that the letter "R" exists my o become Ö (I can't explain how that sounds, a hard version of O I guess), my Ö becomes even worse than what should be humanly possible my A and E's becomes Ä's (try saying e and a at once and you almsot got Ä :P) and I genereally abuse the swedish language so bad msot language teachers would cry and rip their eras off.... and I love it :)

[seba_boi]

I can't hear my own accent, but I'm an American who's lived mainly in PA all my life. I think that I somehow picked up traces of Canadian (probably from movies. Michael J. Fox maybe? watched Back to the Future about a billion times as a kid) on words like "soory" instead of sory. I don't generally have the Philly accent, and definately not the South Philly (which I'm currently surrounded with). I think it's general north-eastern US with lots of odd bits picked up from movies.
Man, I didn't even notice Canadians have a different accent... I know we say "mum" instead of "mom" and we say "washroom" instead of "bathroom" (not accent-related, but I find it interesting)....


I know Newfies and the Quebecois have somewhat heavy accents though...

[Main Loop]

born and raised in nortern california, which means everyone around here has a little valley girl living in them... i sound like everyone else around here, probably a tad of spanish accent...

[tensai]

well lets see,

my japanese is definitely osaka dialect, sounds as well as words. often i dont know when im saying something that is not normal tokyo stylo though, because i mostly didnt learn through study but through talking. thats also the reason its a bit rough. i very rarely use the polite forms due to all the relaxed people around me, so when i do have to, i feel all awkward... i get away with treating everybody on my own level though.

my dutch sounds like the peeps i thought were all exaggerating when they went abroad for a while - with a lot of hesitation and english words thrown in. my grammar/spelling went down pretty hard too. its pretty embarassing really. but i guess thats what happens if you use it once a month or something.

english is my main language, used when im thinking, working, making notes, dreaming. i heard its a mix of english and american, which is so broad i guess it mostly means people cant really place it. it probably changes a bit too depending on the company i'm in.

[Snarfevs]

Um... Somewhere between General Australian English and Cultivated Australian English:

-Broad 'a'
-Rhotic
-no dropping of 'h'
-'u' != 'oo'
-mild glottal stops

Other members of my family think I speak weird. I have to agree, I find my voice quite irritating. My brother who speaks in a very strong 'ocker' accent (he's successfully modified his accent to sound more 'true blue') accuses me of trying to sound 'posh'. He says variously that I'm pretending I'm british, japanese or american (go figure?)

[peterhurman]

if you ever watched the british film - the full monty, i sound like they do in the film.

[dfacto]

Northern California accent.

Russian accent (no idea why, because I am not russian) when speaking english.


Must be the spirit of 500 foot capitalist crushing Vladimir Lenin

[spyroteknik]

Geordie, not strong though, sound like Ant & Dec

[egerie]

I'm an accent sponge. Anyone that met me at the workshop could tell I had a very thick french accent when I talked but a few years ago I spent 2 months in UK... The woman on the plane would just NOT beleive I was born in France. And living in Montreal. As a francophone... "You're not British ??? Or Australian ??!?" .. :)
I spak veRRi goud inglich iou shouldd nkow !

[Rudeone]

A dutch accent when speaking english and a frisian accent when speaking dutch. My first language is Frisian, next to dutch an official language spoken in the netherlands, frisian has a lot of simularities with old english because it has the same origin.
Anyway, you probably still don't have a clue of what I sound like hahaha.

[Bubstar]

Jamaican with some american influence .

[Evil_Sloth]

G'day mate.

Nuff said.

[magicgoo]

I forgot to mention how bad my Spanish accent is. I can't roll my damn rrrrr's! I bet everyone here in the forums can roll theirs.

On the other hand, my old German instructor said I spoke German well, despite the fact that I didn't understand wtf I was saying. Too bad I could never grasp the sentence structure.

[Shamagim]

I forgot to mention how bad my Spanish accent is. I can't roll my damn rrrrr's! I bet everyone here in the forums can roll theirs.

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Don´t worry, most americans can´t .

But there is a nice game/song/frase to get them right, just try to say:

"Erre con erre cigarro, erre con erre carril, rapido ruedan los carros cargados de azucar por el ferrocarril".

In spanish, most words starting with an "r" will sound with a double "r" instead, so this song/frase is quite effective......After some practice of cource.

I bet other countrys that are used to roll their "rrrr"s have methods of their own, because is more complicated that simple phonetics, you actually have to learn to "vibrate" your tongue.

[Marcatili]

I haven't got an accent... its all the rest of you who do.

[Snarfevs]

G'day mate.

Nuff said.

Ahh Tasmanian English :D My mother is tasmanian, and uses fascinating words like Chimley (Chimney) and Punkyum (Pumpkin) :bashful:

[entdroid]

"Erre con erre cigarro, erre con erre carril, rapido ruedan los carros cargados de azucar por el ferrocarril".

I bet other countrys that are used to roll their "rrrr"s have methods of their own, because is more complicated that simple phonetics, you actually have to learn to "vibrate" your tongue.

I actually do the "r" sound with the throat instead of with the tongue (more like the German "r"), something that has granted my friends a lot of entertainment, apparently, a lot of it from that same little rythm you posted (although the words are a bit different here) :P
I do know how to roll the "r" though, but I'm not used to it, so when I try it I sound even funnier than when I don't.

That aside, I sound like most people from my city do: typical argentinian accent from the Pampa region, with less S sounds :D

[quesadeist]

That's the funny thing... although I don't know much spanish I can roll my r's perfectly. Yet despite living in Berlin for roughly a year, I still have problems pronouncing the German "r". I could never pronounce the word "rechts" for the life of me.