Post your accent thread...

[Guapo]

I wanna hear your voice kurva

Call me maybe

[Minesweeper]

I feel so stupid for posting this >.<. I hate speaking in English since I'm insecure about it and always feel like an idiot

This is part from the book about some girl who takes drugs.
English

This is part from the book about Slavic mythology.
Serbian

I hope I won't regret this

Very nice voice and mature, maybe I expected a bit ''girlier'' one but this is so much better.

Imas prelep banjalucki naglasak, nije prenaglasen vec doziran taman koliko treba. Kada je izrazeniji, kod devojaka zvuci pomalo ruzno, da ne kazem seljacki.

[Han Cholo]

I feel so stupid for posting this >.<. I hate speaking in English since I'm insecure about it and always feel like an idiot

This is part from the book about some girl who takes drugs.
English

This is part from the book about Slavic mythology.
Serbian

I hope I won't regret this

Your English voice sounds higher pitched too

Here is how I sound in Spanish:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0CJT7RTbqjl

[Minesweeper]

Your English voice sounds higher pitched too

Here is how I sound in Spanish:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0CJT7RTbqjl

Sounds energetic. I caught only one word, policia.

[Han Cholo]

Sounds energetic. I caught only one word, policia.

Lol, I never said anything about police.

[Minesweeper]

Lol, I never said anything about police.

My mistake, I was about to write ACAB.

[Han Cholo]

My mistake, I was about to write ACAB.

"Esta es ya la tercera toma, la he cagado ya, siento yo que mil veces. Pero bueno, esto es una pequeña prueba de mi acento. Antes planeaba leer un pedazo de un libro, una historia, un poema. Pero en realidad no encontré ninguno que respetara mi naturalidad al hablar. Así que bueno, sólo les dejo este pequeño ejemplo a secas para que no se queden con la curiosidad de cómo sueno exactamente. Nos vemos."

[Seraph of the End]

Very nice voice and mature, maybe I expected a bit ''girlier'' one but this is so much better.

Imas prelep banjalucki naglasak, nije prenaglasen vec doziran taman koliko treba. Kada je izrazeniji, kod devojaka zvuci pomalo ruzno, da ne kazem seljacki.

Thanks

Mojoj majci su uvijek govorili da nema banjalucki naglasak iako je rodjenja i odrasla u Banjaluci. Mislila sam da sam povukla na nju pa da ni ja nemam, ali ovo mi zvuci jos bolje, haha. Hvala :3

[kkk77]

Your English voice sounds higher pitched too

Here is how I sound in Spanish:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0CJT7RTbqjl

Sounds energetic. I caught only one word, policia.

I'm probably wrong but the first thing I understood was "a la mierda".

Then he says that he could've picked a book, etc, but it's more natural to improvise. I think...

[Black Wolf]

I know that most of you don't care but oh well

Out of curiosity, I asked some people from the UK what they thought I sound like - here's a very interesting reply:

"There are a few different accents in there to me - I used to teach English as a Foreign Language - English is not this woman's first language but she has learnt it from an American / living in America / American TV (maybe Canada) - from my first impression of the vowel sounds that are being used

1. the American 'drawl' Hel-oW
2. The short O sound as she says "Bob" to UK speaker it sounds BAHB

The 'fluency' where she says "Ask her to bring these things" and "We also need a small...." has a non English pace (here I don't mean she isn't clear and able to 'fluently' speak English, but that she has a non English pacing where she runs words that native speakers wouldn't into each other - there is a strong Ssk sound that she stresses in these parts

"Ssk hert obring" is what is heard not as a native speaker "Ask'er tabring" - her stress pattern is coming from her native tongue and is another sign this is not her first language (potentially her parents spoke a different language at home and grew up in the US? or moved later? As a child you can move between accents easily - but there are markers in your voice as an adult that can clearly place where you are from / language is your L1.

The clearest part of her original accent:

"Seeks poohns uv frish snuh peez" - (six pounds of fresh snow peas)

From this I want to say a Nordic accent (Maybe Danish / Norwegian) or Eastern European (sounds a little like Polish, but not completely)

But my knowledge of specifics in those countries is minimal - the only thing clear to me is that she is not American.

Unless they are a voice actor or a recording program, and really good at switching between several accents at once!


(Am I right?! I love analysing accents and am a trainee Speech and Language Thereapist / Speech Pathologist)


Also, SOOOOO not Australian, Irish, Scottish!!! haha! I can only guess that the people who guessed that are American and haven't heard many non American accents before - American TV has such bizarre versions of international accents (We don't sound anything like Mary Poppins characters in the UK or even like snooty posh "English" people that are always annoying in movies! - Listen to Hugh Laurie speaking normally, not in his 'HOUSE' accent, or Michael Cane they are more 'normal') ... I'm sticking more with Nordic region - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries.

Edit - HA! just noticed that's how 'non English' that snow peas bit was - she was meant to be saying spoons not pounds! either way, she uses 'elision' (words running into each other in natural speech - FishUnChips for fish and chips) in a completely non standard English way, therefore non native English speaker.... she puts a break between words that would never happen with a native speaker. I stand by my Nordic countries accent".

It was fascinating

You have a nice sounding voice.