‘Where is Balkan?’ by Slavoj Žižek

**Alenka** · 08-13-2022, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by Hulu

Why is his English accent Greek / Italian? The woman has proper slav accent.

Žižek has a speech impediment. He mispronounces the letters S and Z with a lisp.
Thus maybe that gives his English an extra Greek/Spanish vibe?
Because those two languages are kinda lispy...

The woman featured in OP's video is Marina Abramović, who is Serbian.

Here's some examples of English spoken by Slovenians without any lisp... I wonder what your impression is in these cases?
(in the 2nd video the journalist is Italian, so there you can also compare and contrast to his English)

Spoiler!

**Voskos** · 08-13-2022, 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by Alenka

Žižek has a speech impediment. He mispronounces the letters S and Z with a lisp.
Thus maybe that gives his English an extra Greek/Spanish vibe?
Because those two languages are kinda lispy...

The woman featured in OP's video is Marina Abramović, who is Serbian.

Here's some examples of English spoken by Slovenians without any lisp... I wonder what your impression is in these cases?
(in the 2nd video the journalist is Italian, so there you can also compare and contrast to his English)

sounds like a mix of Italian and Russian accent.

**~~Hulu~~** · 08-14-2022, 12:12 AM

Originally Posted by Alenka

Žižek has a speech impediment. He mispronounces the letters S and Z with a lisp.
Thus maybe that gives his English an extra Greek/Spanish vibe?
Because those two languages are kinda lispy...

The woman featured in OP's video is Marina Abramović, who is Serbian.

Here's some examples of English spoken by Slovenians without any lisp... I wonder what your impression is in these cases?
(in the 2nd video the journalist is Italian, so there you can also compare and contrast to his English)

Spoiler!

Melania has the strongest Italian accent but 3 and 4 do as well. The 2nd man less but both him and the last guy have somewhat Albanian like pronunciation. Second man has the most slavic influence as well (inability to pronounce w, he uses v). Anyway I am surprised by the Italian influence. I would have thought it be German on top of the slavic. I speak Italian and I am familiar with their accents in English as well.