Now, as a non-native speaker, I naturally have this weird accent that somehow pops up sometimes among my tv-show influenced bland vanilla american accent.
The question is, how to fix that - and has anyone tried "learning" another accent? Might be cool to pretend you're an Australian sometimes.
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Anonymous2008-11-23 23:59
>>1
living in Australia i can say that Australians don't speak like they do in movies. i was disappointed when i arrived here =(
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Anonymous2008-11-24 20:27
1. Move to Australia
2. Develop attraction to men
3. Shove lots of cock down your throat
4. ???
5. G'day mate this sheila here says PROFIT
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Anonymous2008-11-24 21:20
>>2 >>3
Forget Australian - how to do it with any accent?
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Anonymous2008-11-25 15:15
Watch their TV and practice before a mirror.
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Anonymous2008-11-26 17:16
You can't perfect it. I can always tell when an American is faking Brit accent, for example.
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Anonymous2008-11-26 17:42
i can do a pretty convincing american accent, but my mother is american. i can switch between the two and people tend not to notice that i'm not american.
accents can and should be learned though, practice with a native, ask them to point out when you say things wrong, correct it. be stubborn and perfectionist.
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Anonymous2008-11-27 12:55
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Anonymous2008-11-29 21:49
why isn't there learning material for wannabe chavs from pakistan? I WANT ANSWERS!
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Anonymous2008-12-03 22:41
bump out of sheer faggotry
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Anonymous2008-12-07 2:35
ばんぷ
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Anonymous2008-12-08 6:37
>>10
can't deny it's worthy of a bump for that reason
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Anonymous2008-12-08 20:17
I want to speak with some foreign accent, but I'm American so it would be weird.
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Anonymous2008-12-08 23:11
>>1
Total immersion is the best. Other than that, practice, practice, practice. Learning another accent is almost exactly like learning a new language.
I can fake the accent I grew up around but rarely used (south Texan) while speaking natively with a Standard American Accent (similar to the Midwest). I am convincing to both groups of speakers.
But if you only know one language and one accent, and have hit about 18-20 years old, good luck; if you can learn a second langauge or accent, it's because you have an excellent ear. The human mind's ability to pick up new accents and languages basically goes away about 16-20 years of age.
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Anonymous2008-12-12 14:20
I met a Turkish guy speaking with perfect Scottish accent, and he'd never been to Scotland.
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Anonymous2008-12-16 13:19
I spoke with this weird british-ish accent when I was little. Now I can pull off a pretty good midwest accent, and east-coast when I'm mad.
Learning an accent would probably be possible if you listen to speakers of the language a lot... and practice with strangers.
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Anonymous2008-12-17 19:10
>>15
I notice all Norwegians speak English with perfect Scottish accent.
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Anonymous2008-12-18 15:49
>>17
That's because Scots speak with a Norwegian accent. Vikings etc.
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Anonymous2008-12-18 17:29
>>18
But Swedes and Danes don't have Schottish accent at all when they speak english albeight they are also descendants of Vikings.
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Polish is the most uncool in terms pronunciation among the Slavic languages. Such sounds as "rz" & "cz" makes me shiver with disgust. What the fuck is that, poczta for post??? lol, Poles are all psycho. They can't pronounce words. Fools.
Basement-nerd grade pale skin, chestnut hair, brown eyes, slightly thick eyebrows, hairy body - I thought this was a perfect Serb, with impressions made from GTA4.
How about Armenian?
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Anonymous2008-12-23 7:42
I know a number of Serbs. As a result of my experiences to live and travel in Northern European countries such as Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Danmark Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland and European Russia, I am very useful to the pale skin people of those countries have. This is identical to what they call "blue blood". However, I have never met a single Serb or Croat who has a real pale skin. With a close look you could easily be able to tell that Serbs' skins are much darker than Northern Europeans. Even Japanese are paler than Serbs are. I have lived in Japan, and I am convinced that some Asians such as Japanese are much more whitish than some Europeans are.
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Anonymous2008-12-24 19:43
not than some Europeans are but than almost all Southern Europeans and some Northern Europeans are.
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Anonymous2008-12-24 22:10
I can imitate a Chinese person trying to speak Russian because I used to live in Khabarovsk (it's near to the border of China) for a long time, although I think it's generally useless.
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Anonymous2008-12-25 23:27
>>28
no Armenians still look dark. Enjoy being burnt by the sun palefag
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Anonymous2008-12-26 4:05
>>32
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Anonymous2008-12-26 13:08
I've lived in Scotland all my life, and I can't do a Scottish accent.
Is this going to make it harder to pick up foreign accents?
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Anonymous2008-12-26 14:03
accents have to be learnt, you don't just absorb them. you need to sit down and work on it.
>>38
This is true. My mom never spoke spanish until she was almost 50 and now she is almost fluent 3 years later. It's not as easy when you are older but the real reason most people don't learn new languages is because they don't really try. Just about anyone could learn a new language if they actually wanted to.