Non-native English-speakers: how do you pronounce 'grass' and 'chance'?

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Originally Posted by The Lawspeaker

What would you make of my "ah" ?

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Very pleasant and elegant indeed.:thumb001: My experience is that Dutch people, and to a lesser extent Scandinavians, tend to sound the most British when talking English; Germans tend to be split between pseudo-British and pseudo-American; Slavic and Romance-speakers don't really sound either British or American; MENAs and East Asians - at least those who are reasonably fluent - sound mostly American.

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I think with a long "ah" rather

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Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen

Very pleasant and elegant indeed.:thumb001: My experience is that Dutch people, and to a lesser extent Scandinavians, tend to sound the most British when talking English; Germans tend to be split between pseudo-British and pseudo-American; Slavic and Romance-speakers don't really sound either British or American; MENAs and East Asians - at least those who are reasonably fluent - sound mostly American.

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I try to fully sound american and pronounce everything as americans do.

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Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen

Very pleasant and elegant indeed.:thumb001: My experience is that Dutch people, and to a lesser extent Scandinavians, tend to sound the most British when talking English; Germans tend to be split between pseudo-British and pseudo-American; Slavic and Romance-speakers don't really sound either British or American; MENAs and East Asians - at least those who are reasonably fluent - sound mostly American.

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Probably because we're very exposed to Britain here. More so than to America. Everything that comes in from America comes through a "British filter".

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Originally Posted by Teutone

I try to fully sound american and pronounce everything as americans do.

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Gahd bless thee Unaatid States of Amerrika. :)

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Originally Posted by Zeno

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I think with a long "ah" rather

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You speak like EpirusDNA

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Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen

Gahd bless thee Unaatid States of Amerrika. :)

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Just sounds more appeasing to most Germans.
I prefer listening to Pence or Obama instead of Boris, just from the whole anesthetics of the language.

I love low class british tho and terms like innit,great banter, mate, oy, bloke etc.

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Originally Posted by Teutone

You speak like EpirusDNA

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How does he sound?

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Originally Posted by The Lawspeaker

Probably because we're very exposed to Britain here. More so than to America. Everything that comes in from America comes through a "British filter".

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In some ways I feel that Britain, Netherlands and the Nordic countries could be one big country and work quite well. We're all nations of traders and sailors above all else, after all.