FOREIGN ACCENTS!

[Simon D. Aelsi]

So, everyone's got an accent. EVERYONE.   But I wonder... What are your opinions on Other people's foreign accents?  Do YOU  like to listen to them?  Or even other parts of your country. (Here's looking at you, people in Boston!)

Do you like trying to put on foreign accents?

Spoiler

Here's a woman who can do this on a whim. Here she is doing 31

Here's the video that started it all.

Here she is, yet again.

I learned my accents from her!

Tell me!

 

[Paladin-Cleric of Awesome]

I hate hearing myself. lol. All calls at my workplace are recorded, so sometimes I have to listen to myself talk.  I have a slight lisp I honestly didn't think I had. lol. and my accent! Inever thought i had an accent, but man was i wrong!

 

[??????]

I think this quesiton is slightly silly, simply because of the fact that...

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Everyone has a Foreign accent - compared to someone in another location. 

 

[Simon D. Aelsi]

I hate hearing myself. lol. All calls at my workplace are recorded, so sometimes I have to listen to myself talk.  I have a slight lisp I honestly didn't think I had. lol. and my accent! Inever thought i had an accent, but man was i wrong!

I have a fascination with listening to other people's speaking voices

I think this quesiton is slightly silly, simply because of the fact that...

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Everyone has a Foreign accent - compared to someone in another location. 

Yep. I kinda covered that in the OP, but it's still really neat to hear other people's ones too.

 

[??????]

Yea, I guess

If you where asking 'what is your favorite accent' - Jamaican, ALWAYS !!

or

If asking 'which accent do you like to put on' it would have to be Indian - it is by far the most amusing to say numeric sequences in. eg. 249 [two forty nine] (not racist at all btw)

Edit:

Your edit on the OP makes it the question much clearer

 

[Alexander Amnell]

   I literally have no accent; this isn't me saying this, rather it's everyone around me. I have a monotonous voice that belies neither emotion nor inflection... only a select few individuals can tell the difference between a phrase I say excitedly while in a jovial mood and one spoken in anger when out for blood. I'm also incapable of impersonating another person or accent regardless of how I try. Then again, I've also got a social developmental disorder and don't pick up on other social cues naturally either so make of that what you will. I do use certain regional slang and vocal interpretations (such as y'all, and pronouncing the word bury as bu-rry rather than bere like everyone that wasn't born in Georgia) but that's as close to an accent as I come.

   I love a woman with a Spanish accent, there's just something... soothing about such a voice. Also the Irish (either gender) If I could have any accent I wanted then I'd sound Irish.

 

[LRDean_Socks]

I haven't really traveled much so I haven't heard many different accents in person. 

However, I love my older cousin's accent. She is from Rhode Island and she has a Italian meets Brooklyn accent, but its really classy. That's the best I can describe it, but I love hearing her talk. 

People I've meet have told me I don't have much of an accent, but I use certain words with an accent and certain words that are common for my area...or just southern and I don't know what, maybe something like southern meets Atlanta meets neutral for me. 

I even do this when typing, I say Ya'll alot. Thank ya. Aint, We say Houston wrong where I am from as well. A heavy accent will come out of me now and then. 

 

[Dalph]

I'm pretty tall so I have an extremely deep and manly voice, and since I'm 100% italian I have a strong italian accent too! I basically sound like Mario on steroids, it's creepy as hell...ahahah

I live near Naples so my accent is a Neapoletan one, it's basically a whole new language more than an accent itself (due to how complex it is) and it's a lot different from the standard Italian.

This is an example of two Italian women talking in Neapoletan (subtitles are in: Italian/English/Neapoletan):

I like the Spanish accents tbh, I think they sounds sexy for some reason.

 

[Ralpf]

I don't have problems with most foreign (or otherwise) accents, I somehow learned to read lips so as long as I'm looking at most people I have no problem understanding them.

The only exception is some (American) Southern accents. Not the common ones but people with really thick Southern accents are almost impossible for me to understand...and I live in Tennessee now...

I've also come to realize that the Indiana accent (which I have for the most part, but I moved around a lot as a kid so it isn't 100%) and most American Southern accents are about as far apart as you can get, so that is part of the problem.

 

[LRDean_Socks]

There are a lot of different kinds of southern accents and some are very strong. Sometimes I also don't understand them, but I find them really interesting. 

 

[Alkorri]

I'm pretty tall so I have an extremely deep and manly voice, and since I'm 100% italian I have a strong italian accent too! I basically sound like Mario on steroids, it's creepy as hell...ahahah

Deep like this, Dalph?

I find French and Irish accents sexy for some reason And I admit I am shamelessly drawn to people who speak in Received Pronunciation.

 

[Dalph]

Deep like this, Dalph?

More like this:

This italian singer sounds totally like Barry White, I have a similar voice tone but only when I talk sadly (I'm terrible at singing)...ahahahah.

 

[??????]

 (I'm terrible at singing)...

I cant imagine you signing...

Well, maybe something like this...

 

[Kes]

English people would say that I don't have an accent because I have what is often called Received Pronunciation.  In essence that means no regional accent; of course I sound English.

I'm quite good at imitating some regional accents; some are impossible to imitate such as Geordie (from the northeast of England).  Living in London I hear English pronounced by people from a huge range of countries, and I have no problem with most of them.  There are some US accents which really grate on me (sorry guys, I know many of your are from the US), and the way words are pronounced by people from some Eastern European countries can be difficult for me to understand.  But basically I have no real problem with accents.

 

[??????]

@ksjp17 - do you have that 'ye get me blud' fake American wanna be accent ? God I hope not...
That crap is just appalling imo. Normal London accents are ok. Not quite as 'quirky' as a scouser, but it can be pretty nice.

Personally, I am from Glasgow, Scotland so I sound somewhat like this...

 

[Kes]

@ksjp17 - do you have that 'ye get me blud' fake American wanna be accent ? God I hope not...

Hmm, do you mean me personally?  Do I speak like that?  Not at all.  As I said, I have Received pronunciation.  If you mean do I hear it around me?  Yes, sometimes.

 

[??????]

Its good that you have managed to keep a clear accent, especially if you have alot of folk around you that have that nasty accent.

To me, that accent sounds somewhat 'dirty' when spoken, as though its being somewhat forced.

 

[Shelby]

Nothing is more beautiful then a Russian accent! American accents all sound weird to me, this southern accent seems weird. Of course people say that my German accent sounds weird to lol.

 

[Ralpf]

There are a lot of different kinds of southern accents and some are very strong. Sometimes I also don't understand them, but I find them really interesting. 

Very true, that's why I used "most" and "some". You could probably say that about most accents, but of all American accents Southern and North-Western accents are probably the most obvious in terms of where the person is from, makes subtle variations more obvious.

English people would say that I don't have an accent because I have what is often called Received Pronunciation.  In essence that means no regional accent; of course I sound English.

I'm quite good at imitating some regional accents; some are impossible to imitate such as Geordie (from the northeast of England).  Living in London I hear English pronounced by people from a huge range of countries, and I have no problem with most of them.  There are some US accents which really grate on me (sorry guys, I know many of your are from the US), and the way words are pronounced by people from some Eastern European countries can be difficult for me to understand.  But basically I have no real problem with accents.

Ehh, it works both way. The most common English accents have some things that bug me every time I hear them.

I think it's also weird how American and English people treat words of French origin (which make up a significant portion of English vocabulary), some words Americans retain an approximation of the French pronunciation and the English ditch it, other words it's completely reversed.

Nothing is more beautiful then a Russian accent! American accents all sound weird to me, this southern accent seems weird. Of course people say that my German accent sounds weird to lol.

Yeah you can't get away from that, everyone has an accent that someone somewhere things sounds weird. I like most German accents that I have heard, though.

 

[Touchfuzzy]

Actually, American English, especially from the South, is probably closer to how English was spoken in England several hundred years ago than what British English sounds like now. I read some papers on it, its an interesting thing but basically the Virginia Piedmont & Coastal Southern accents (think Gone with the Wind) has had a lot less drift than most other version of English.

I myself speak with a fairly American neutral accent (Midwestern accent, I once got accused of being Canadian in my own hometown in the Deep South based on the way I talk...), with just a touch of Southern Appalachian (which has actually been theorized to have pronunciation that is remnants of Elizabethan English) which gets stronger the more excited I get.