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Post by helixxy on May 1, 2010 18:00:46 GMT
Personally- Love: Icelandic - one of the highlights of Heima is definitely the accents. Norwegian Italian Cumbrian - all my family are from there and it's not a very well known accent. Like a dumb Geordie, which I also love. Mild Scouse - like... people from the Wirral Scottish Don't like so much...: Cockney West Country Australian I personally hate my my own accent as well (Yorkshire - Barnsley). Every time I hear my voice recorded it's like 'Yeesh, could I sound anymore bored?' I also get bullied regulary for it
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Post by autobusas on May 8, 2010 16:06:57 GMT
I love Irish and Scottish accents! I wouldn't probably understand a thing if somebody spoke to me in a Scottish accent, but it sounds very beautiful. I also like when Spanish people speak English and it seems that they are speaking Spanish and French accent - you can say that a person is French when they speak English in their accent.
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Post by Tellurium on May 8, 2010 16:36:55 GMT
Welcome to the forum autobusas!
In my experience, accents that you feel like you might have some trouble with are actually fairly easy. It just takes a minute or two to adjust to the person's way of speaking, but then it sort of "clicks" and understanding is no problem.
Of course, there are always people who just get stuck in the "OH MAH GAH I CAN'T UNDERSTAND YOU SPEAK TEH QWEENS ENGLISH GAWD!" mode of thinking and don't ever really try.
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Post by ilze on May 10, 2010 10:40:18 GMT
i love properly posh english, northern scottish and southern irish accents, they just sound sweet. and, yeah, it's not too hard to understand really strong accents, you just have to adjust a bit and learn some of the different words they use.
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Post by autobusas on May 10, 2010 20:03:00 GMT
What is the difference between, for example, Northern Scottish and Southern Scottish? Maybe I'm too foreign to tell that difference, but for me Scottish accent is Scottish accent Oh, and I forgot - cockney accent, Michael Cane speaks with it. I love it!
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Post by jadeface on May 10, 2010 21:46:13 GMT
A man approached me in a charity shop today, with the strongest scottish accent I've ever heard, which I've always been convinced I find hard to understand. I understood him perfectly! He told me he came down from Scotland without a jacket and asked me if the jacket he is wearing (that he was considering buying from the shop) looked silly or not. I thought it was his jacket anyway so I guess it can't have looked silly. Then he said, if my wife laughs at me it'll be your fault. I'm glad I could understand him.
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Post by ilze on May 15, 2010 15:52:30 GMT
What is the difference between, for example, Northern Scottish and Southern Scottish? Maybe I'm too foreign to tell that difference, but for me Scottish accent is Scottish accent Oh, and I forgot - cockney accent, Michael Cane speaks with it. I love it! well, i'm a foreigner in scotland, too, but there are quite big differences between northern scottish (i think that's the north scottish accent, it might come from just the specific area where the people i met came from), glaswegian and edinburgh accents. there are apparently about seven or eight scottish accents, but i haven't heard them all. the northern one is sort of milder and sound sweeter, with rolling ''r''s, a bit like the southern irish accent, while glaswegian is more rough and sounds a bit like they have a potato in their mouth (in the nicest way possible, i adore those accents), the edingburgh one has a more distinct potato-in-mouth sound about it and i think it lenghtens words a bit more, or a bit less, i don't remember, which. well, if you're interested, james mcavoy's got a glaswegian accent and shirley manson has an edinburgh accent
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Post by sarah on May 15, 2010 16:10:20 GMT
one thing people from edinburgh seem to do is say "therrr" (similar to an english accent) instead of "THEYURRR" like everyone else in scotland does. also in dundee people tend to say "eh" instead of "ie" eg my->meh, pie->peh. which is kind of funny
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Post by allison on May 15, 2010 19:32:16 GMT
my mother has the most awesome accent ever, if i do say so myself. she grew up in stoke & south carolina, but has lived in california for 18 years so its all a bit watered down. she still says 'dust' instead of 'do you' and she calls everyone Ducks (staffs) or Dahln (southern 'darling'). also sometimes she pronounces things with two syllables where most people only have one, and sometimes doesn't pronounce 'r's.
my father grew up in idaho & central california so he says 'warshed' instead of 'washed' and 'still' instead of 'steal' and 'crick' instead of 'creek'
i've got the most boring accent ever, but i use my parents' vocabulary so i end up speaking like a cross between a brit and a hick.
one accent i really love is Goan (from Goa, in India), its like subtle Indian-British but very flow-y. . . so pretty. i could listen to the guy we stayed with in Goa all day.
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Post by husbandwifeheroin on May 16, 2010 21:17:15 GMT
I could listen to hebrew all day.
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Post by papilioulysses on May 31, 2010 14:20:54 GMT
musste kieken...
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Post by wakefromthysleep on May 31, 2010 14:54:06 GMT
KRÖMI . du alte Kackbratze/you old Kackbratze... phahah. He belongs to the fit blokes thread. He was in Siegen last month and missed it . We read Der Hauptmann von Köpenick in school and I loved the accent so much!
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Post by wakefromthysleep on May 31, 2010 23:35:47 GMT
.. I just had to post it ;D. dead funny
'If you don't like my accent, I try se best I can'
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Post by Chelsea on Nov 15, 2011 20:44:23 GMT
Oh god.... I have a massive thing for weird voices! Stephen Fry! Such an interesting voice he has! Jeremy Irons! Put him in a cage and make him talk to me! God, that sounds awful but his voice... Stupid lion king and scar... damn his incredibly sexy voice
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Post by exim on Nov 22, 2011 18:06:37 GMT
I like Welsh best and "up north" UK. I won't say which ones I hate because I'd be sure to offend!
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