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    Quote Originally Posted by ixulescu View Post
    Not really. Urban Romanians speak the same way everywhere, with only a few exceptions (like Iasi). Some will have a faint regional accent, but even Romanians don't notice it.

    Rural Romanians have stronger regional accents.
    He mean RM dumbo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ixulescu View Post
    Not really. Urban Romanians speak the same way everywhere, with only a few exceptions (like Iasi). Some will have a faint regional accent, but even Romanians don't notice it.

    Rural Romanians have stronger regional accents.
    Have you ever been to R. Moldova. I've lived in the capital all my life.

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    It's more of continuum than a set accent. "Standard" pronunciation is the modern amalgamation of old Ashkenazi and Sephardi accents. The vast majority of people speak it, give or take.

    Some people will maintain more "Mizrahi/Sephardi" (essentially, biblical) phonemes such as gutturals and pharyngeals (particularly the original sounds for Ayin and Het in the Semitic abjads), mostly either old Mizrahi/Sephardi dudes or young guys trying to emulate them. It's particularly common in some "Mizrahit" music, and is almost always maintained in prayer.

    Same goes for Ashkenazim on the other side of the fence, religious ones will maintain old pronunciaton for music and prayer but will usually drop it for the Standard in day to day life.

    Notable mention is Russian immigrants, both Jewish and non Jewish, will usually roll their R's (and otherwise pronounce words with a Russian tint). Their native born children drop this, for the most part. Some halfheartedly, my ex would drop a few rolled R's on me when she got pissed off. French immigrants speak differently, but not as noticeably as all Standard Hebrew phonemes barring the voiceless velar fricative exist in French.
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    Majority of people in my country speak with standard accent (which you hear on TV).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roy View Post
    In my country unlike in the UK, among the people that I have contact with it is a rare occurence to come across anyone with an accent or speaking any real dialect of the language. It should be added, however, that it is possible that some people hide it when they talk to me and use their way of speaking only among their own (so I am someone external to them.). Some people from Upper Silesia that come here to work sometimes throw in some word, or two involuntarily that seem strange to me, and speak with a slight accent though. I'd say that around 80% of Poles use mostly 'standard' accent daily in a way that you mean in this thread. Here where I am 90%+ of people are like that.



    So is it easy to guess that someone comes from Moldova or Republic of Moldova just from listening to them?
    Yes, you can easily notice the differences in accents. Each of this 3 regions have a specific accent

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    Quote Originally Posted by Universe View Post
    Majority of people in my country speak with standard accent (which you hear on TV).
    lol that's not true, most hungarians speaks rural accent. Peoples from Buda and from Pest city centre speak standard hungarian. Peoples from Pest suburban area + countryside use rural dialect very often.

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    IDK about accent, but the written language is awful. Very few, because the reform of Finnish failed. Too long words and spaces.

    F.ex.

    Are you

    Std written language "oletko sinä", but in spoken language "o:tsä"

    To make this more complex, we have 6 dialects and Swedish speakers. Local dialects, old and young dialects.
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    Most people in Vienna, especially the younger ones speak varying degrees of Standard Austrian German, similar to what you can hear on TV. For the rest of Austria various dialects are spoken, depending on the federal province. As a Viennese I can understand most of them except the dialect that is spoken in Vorarlberg (and some regions in Tyrol). To me personally it sounds like Swiss German. Although I have friends from Switzerland that claim it sounds nothing like Swiss German But most people will switch to Standard Austrian once they realize that you're not a local. From what I have observed in Vienna, teenagers nowadays tend to speak more like people in Germany would. I assume it’s due to TV/Youtube.

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    Fairly standard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ixulescu View Post
    Not really. Urban Romanians speak the same way everywhere, with only a few exceptions (like Iasi). Some will have a faint regional accent, but even Romanians don't notice it.

    Rural Romanians have stronger regional accents.
    In Poland it is also more common in rural areas, save for Upper Silesian cities (well, most people there live in them - it is one of the more densely urbanised regions of Poland). There used to be a separate dialect in Warsaw, but it's moribund after the II World War.

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