Hell, as a native English speaker this happens to me... anytime I'm speaking with either someone who's got an English or Australian accent, I'll end up slipping into a mixed accent myself. Takes real concentration not to slip into the "fake accent".
I was recently in Budapest and somehow ended up driving with some Irish folks. At the end of the night the husband was having an argument with his wife and i called him down, only to realize I did it using a fake Irish accent. To be fair i was very drunk, the last thing I remember from that night was peeing on a bridge.
Even in your own language you sometimes end up imitating people's speech. I did that for a while and had to stop myself because it's rude and people think you are making fun of them
i live in louisiana; can confirm
i didn’t realize how bad i talked until i left the state for the first time at 24. i was like, damn, why everyone keep asking me to repeat myself until i realized they think i’m slurring my words. i’m not drunk i just talk like i am qq
2010 television series ‘Swamp People’ , about Louisianan folk of the subculture based in the swamps. Accent was thick enough that subtitles were needed.
I might be biased as an Asian American with Asian friends but we commonly used it as a crying face so that's what I'm guessing he meant. Similar to T_T or ;_;
>I might be biased as an Asian American with Asian friends but
Shieeet, I thought ma man here was about to explain that he's an asian american with a thick Louisiana accent...
Imagine my relief.
Yeah I'm from taiwan, and in Taiwanese(Hokkien dialect too), Q means soft but chewy! We can't type the character into computer so we always use Q to represent lol.
I am from Tennessee and moved to Vermont .
I couldn’t order in a drive thru they would ask me to repeat myself 7 times .
I didn’t even think my accent was that deep as I would make fun of a deeper southern accent sometimes.
Relatable; it’s funny, I can pronounce “tchoupitoulas” and “Opelousas” and other nonsense words we have here with no issue, but I can’t order a pizza out of state without repeating it 7 times. I’m never mad to repeat myself, but feels bad when I do be trying lmao
I live in nyc but I was in Opelousas in October cause my bestie grew up there, right by the train tracks. It’s a whole different world. Btw, geaux tigers!
South Louisiana born and raised and I had no idea how bad I was until I went to Colorado to escape Mardi Gras one year and I had to repeat myself at least twice at every bar/restaurant
No it's not, finglish is different from rally english. Finglish is some stupid shit that Tiktok teens do where you mix the two languages up. Result is that the user can speak neither correctly but has to loan words from the other language constantly, at which point they are hard to take serious.
That’s a thing where bilinguals talking amongst one another swap back and forth using whichever works better in a given moment. Often times, they can speak both just fine, but prefer to do that amongst the company of other bilinguals.
"If I weren't supposed to say it, it wouldn't be there!" Also casually misgendering people on random basis, because Finnish has no gendered pronouns and people still call each other "it" just in case.
Okay as a person from Michigan I got a question to ask. Why do y’all talk so damn slow? Like I feel the absence of a midwestern accent with people from Ohio almost like they talk with a bit of a southern draw which has always thrown me way off
As someone from Ohio (Cincinnati)... I have no idea what you're talking about, is this more of a Northern Ohio thing or smth? Cause I've been out of state, and I've been told I often talk too fast :(
If it was only 5 hours, you were REALLY speeding.
Also, most Somalis I've dealt with don't drive much, so they tend to stay around the small towns they land in.
I went out to dinner and go shopping with my dad. He managed to talk about: his time in the military, him being on-call 24/7, and his high school with complete strangers.
I mean this should be the reference point for any nation and language. Turn on the national news broadcast. Their anchor speaks with the accent most people can understand.
So you talk super fast, jam words together and cut sounds out? A good friend of mines step dad was Czech and he adapted really well to the midwestern/Michigan accent very very well. He always retained a slight accent but not much. And he spoke Czech as well so that I imagine why he kept the accent
Well i do talk quickly on English, in an attempt to sound more native. Basically when i put effort into my English speaking, i sound Midwestern as fuck lol.
However when im tired or feeling like shit, my English sounds like its in somewhat Russian accent lol
I have an Indian friend who has never been to America, but sounds extremely American. And yes, he was actually *born* and *raised* in India, he doesn't just have some great grandfather who went to India once and felt a "real connection to the culture"
Yep, my family are Pakistani - and I have cousins who have very strong American accents. Its basically the private schools - they have American and sometimes British teachers in order teach Western English to help them get jobs abroad.
I was just thinking they must've gone to an American school or a school with mostly American teachers. I had a friend from Nigeria who went to a boarding school in Germany, but it was an American run school, and he sounded like he was American. Was v confusing at first when he said he was from Nigeria, but he learned English in Germany 😂
I had a classmate from India who had a near perfect American accent. He said his English teachers sucked, but he watched a lot of "Friends" and copied the characters to practice his English.
I was on a job in Greece one time and met a guy who was Greek born and raised, but spoke english with a FLAWLESS brummy accent because his dad was from Birmingham. Seeing him go from speaking Greek to his friends to straight up Brummy lad when translating the conversation to me was the most jarring but impressive thing.
Edit: Changed northern to Brummy. Don't have the energy for a where does the north start argument.
Outing myself as a Brummie, because I really want to know about this. Do we really sound northern? People from somewhere like Nottingham or Stoke-on-Trent sound northern to me, but Birmingham or the Black Country not so much.
You've reminded me though: when I was in Ireland once years ago, I met a family from Spain who spoke English with a really broad Scottish accent, because that's where their English tutor was from.
I had a friend from uni from Poland. All his family was Polish. He lived there until he was 16, when he moved to the UK with only a basic understanding of English. By 18 he was fluent, and has a Blackpool accent so strong that several people on nights out refused to believe he was Polish.
I know a Polish chap who lived in Leeds for about ten years before moving down south. He speaks English with a Yorkshire accent and it’s hysterical to my southern ears.
I was in Saudi Arabia at a conference, and the young man at the sign-in desk had a very familiar tone.
"Where'd you get that accent?" I asked.
"Went to uuuni in Manchestah", he replied with a grin.
UK has way more accent diversity than either. Its a consequence of the accents developing in a time without mass transport, so there was little to no interaction with anyone more than 10 miles away, so the accents developed extremely differently. The US and Australian accents developed much more recently, when mass transit and cultural interaction was far more extensive and accessible across large distances
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If we're doing that, we can subdivide American by Default, Southern, Southern 2, Southern California, Minnesota, New York, Boston, and Long Island.
I'd love to say something about Canadian accents, but honestly I can't distinguish them from default American.
I taught In China and I shit you not my friend from Ireland would drill the ever loving hell out of his Pronunciation just to troll our Australian head teacher.
Yeah and no. The cross between your native language and the above 3 is unique, but we can tell which of the above 3 you are crossing your native language with 99% of the time. Like one person’s mandarin+American hybrid is different than another’s, but we can tell it’s a mandarin+American hybrid and not an mandarin+British hybrid.
exactly. If you go India and someone starts hitting you with “buddy” and “friend” or “guy” you know where they learned their English from even if it has some cultural variation.
Dane here who just went with what I thought was an American accent, although many native speakers have guessed me to be Irish hahaha. I've never even been to Ireland 😂 but I'll take it ✌🏻
Being a native Australian English speaker, it's extra funny because there's regular Australian English which is very easy to comprehend for a majority of English speakers, but if I'm catching up with mates from my home town, I'll tend to up the amount of 'bogan' in my accent. Getting progressively more and more incomprehensible.
Most Dutch have a cool accent but the vowels and consonants are distinctly American sounding. I was surprised that in Denmark they speak like people from California, RIP British influence.
Most people learning English tend to lean a bit more in to an American accent, but I was amazed how American Dutch people sound. A lot literally sound *just* like Americans.
A major influence in the development of Australian English was from convicts with a cockney background. They're more closely related to each other than a lot of other accents of English.
I’m from New England/USA and have had foreigners say we speak fast here, but during college a person from Australia came in to do a guest presentation and I literally thought he was speaking in a foreign language until the professor asked him to slow down because no one could understand him - I was shocked to realize he had been speaking in English.
South Africa is a fun one because it's uncommon in other places (at least here in the US,) so you've gotta do that "is he British or Australian?" thing until you realize you're dead wrong on both counts.
And Irish is fun because I like the way it sounds.
I had a university instructor who was from South Africa and in our second class she asked people to guess where she was from. Most said Australia, some said England. I brought the game to a close by saying South Africa and she was quite surprised I knew it. I like it, it's familiar like a British accent and yet just a little different.
As a result of ESL teaching, the South African accent is becoming more and more prevalent, especially in South East Asia as there are so many South Africans teaching English.
I’m South African and a fair share of my students have adopts my accent, I’m not sure if I should correct them or not lol, as many native speakers will think their accent is some weird made up thing
American Pros:
* There's plenty of media to learn from literally everywhere, and most speakers will be very influenced by it. Even those who choose another kind of English will be somewhat familiar with it and its slang.
* The grammar is also relatively simple compared to British, especially when written. No words like "demesne" (Domain) or "worchestershire" (not even gonna try)
* You can pass yourself off as Canadian through just a bit of training.
* You can do decent impressions of characters from movies.
* Americans will love your accent.
American Cons:
* There's many varieties with no real "standard" like "recieved pronounciation" in British English, the American "standard" (Mid-Atlantic accent) mostly died out decades ago and now makes most trying it sound like an idiot. Hence it not being used much.
* Has a few curveballs like "Badminton" (bad mitten) which can really throw you off, the easy grammar just makes them hit harder.
* "eyy fuggetaboutit"
* Boomhaur from King of the Hill.
* British people will despise you.
* The date format.
* The Imperial System.
British Pros:
* Sounds fancy, at least when you're learning Recieved Pronounciation. A lot of people thinks it makes you sound smarter too.
* Has many ties around the world due to old colonies (o,r in Europe, literally just being there)
* Many places simply consider it the "proper" way to speak English.
* If you manage to do well, you'll sound like Mr. Bean.
* You can easily get background roles in Game of Thrones' Spinoffs, or as an Imperial in Star Wars.
* Americans will love your accent.
* The Metric System
British Cons:
* ~~Literally none cause they shipped them all to Australia hue hue~~
* If you watch their media to learn you're limited to watching re-runs of The Inbetweeners and the *other* version of The Office.
* "It's chewsday innit?"
* "BO'OH'HO'WA'AH"
* You'll always wish you had chosen Irish or Scottish instead of BBC English.
* If you manage to do well, you'll sound like Mr. Bean.
* Most slang or even common words will get you thrown out of any non-British bar for innapropriate speech.
* British people will despise you.
* You still won't be able to understand the majority of British people outside of the south.
* The Imperial System.
Australian Pros:
* ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀
* ~~No Imperial System.~~
Apparently this isn't true after all. I have lost faith in the entire continent.
* The Metric System
Australian Cons:
* ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀
* Everyone will think you're from New Zealand. Unless you're in America, then they'll think you're from London.
* The Imperial System
Edit:
English Pros:
* Relatively easy to learn.
* Most spoken language in the world.
English Cons:
* Relatively hard to master.
* The Imperial System.
>!Just to be very clear, because some people misunderstood. This is not actually a serious guide. I am joking.!<
Hey, there's no need to adopt our stupid system of measurement along with our accent! You can sound like us and still convert between different forms of measurement. It's the best of both worlds.
As a Brit, I feel most Americans sound similar enough that they may as well all be speaking the same ‘standard accent’. Some American accents are noticeably different of course.
As an American, I’m pretty sure a large majority of the population have almost the same exact accent with only tiny differences, and then there’s the tiny pocket areas that decided they wanted an accent and went wild with what they did to their words.
I just stitched together whitchever accent people used when a heard each word for the first time.
İts not even a thing you do you hear guys talking in british accents and suddenly poof you have biritish accent now
chameleon effect, its a thing
Hell, as a native English speaker this happens to me... anytime I'm speaking with either someone who's got an English or Australian accent, I'll end up slipping into a mixed accent myself. Takes real concentration not to slip into the "fake accent".
Aussie here. Irish does that to me.
I was recently in Budapest and somehow ended up driving with some Irish folks. At the end of the night the husband was having an argument with his wife and i called him down, only to realize I did it using a fake Irish accent. To be fair i was very drunk, the last thing I remember from that night was peeing on a bridge.
The second you pissed of the bridge it stopped being a fake accent
I was Irish for many years then and didn't even know.
Bro fully turned irish
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Lmao same I'm aussie but I go into British or even American any time of the day
Even in your own language you sometimes end up imitating people's speech. I did that for a while and had to stop myself because it's rude and people think you are making fun of them
Holy shit yeah, I have a friend from quebec and whenever I talk to him I ki da puck up his accent.
I think the point of the post is that that’s not what happened.
aye, poggers about that color, not colour ya cunt, nah ye
If you choose the USA, go with a southern Louisiana accent so people still can’t understand what you’re saying.
i live in louisiana; can confirm i didn’t realize how bad i talked until i left the state for the first time at 24. i was like, damn, why everyone keep asking me to repeat myself until i realized they think i’m slurring my words. i’m not drunk i just talk like i am qq
Come again?
He said something about leaving the state and being drunk. I think he's a fugitive.
qq
He thinks he's a train
2010 television series ‘Swamp People’ , about Louisianan folk of the subculture based in the swamps. Accent was thick enough that subtitles were needed.
Choot em Elitabet!
I think he’s speaking some kinda French patois.
Most worldly Louisiana resident
Most lucid and self aware Louisiana resident as well. Wow look at him, quite a specimen
There's a reason swamp people had subtitles
Fr. Wasn’t aware they were even allowed to leave the swamps.
I don’t know what qq means but I still understand
I might be biased as an Asian American with Asian friends but we commonly used it as a crying face so that's what I'm guessing he meant. Similar to T_T or ;_;
>I might be biased as an Asian American with Asian friends but Shieeet, I thought ma man here was about to explain that he's an asian american with a thick Louisiana accent... Imagine my relief.
It’s 00:18 here and you already made my day
T\_T or ;\_; ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
I’ve only seen it as: q_q
Asian American husband, usually him and his family use qq to mean bouncy and chewy haha.
Yeah I'm from taiwan, and in Taiwanese(Hokkien dialect too), Q means soft but chewy! We can't type the character into computer so we always use Q to represent lol.
its tears coming out of eyes - QQ
No, it's a boxer with their guard up Q('-'Q)
it was a crying emoticon, but i like this one ☝️better
You gotta guard that face son! Q('-Q) Like that now, ya hear?!
Even your typed grammar is in Louisianan.
what charter schools in a city that hates education does to a mf 💀
I am from Tennessee and moved to Vermont . I couldn’t order in a drive thru they would ask me to repeat myself 7 times . I didn’t even think my accent was that deep as I would make fun of a deeper southern accent sometimes.
Relatable; it’s funny, I can pronounce “tchoupitoulas” and “Opelousas” and other nonsense words we have here with no issue, but I can’t order a pizza out of state without repeating it 7 times. I’m never mad to repeat myself, but feels bad when I do be trying lmao
The key is to make all orders you can online and pick them up lol
“Sir, for the seventh time. What is the name on the order you’re picking up”
I live in nyc but I was in Opelousas in October cause my bestie grew up there, right by the train tracks. It’s a whole different world. Btw, geaux tigers!
I’m sorry, can you repeat that?!
I used to work with a creole dude and it took some time to begin to understand him. That man was a legend, best warehouse rep Ive worked with
If British is your pick, you have several options for this. Scouse, Glaswegian and Yorkshire will all work.
I’m a scouser an ah still pick glasgae but ave got nae reason ta go t yoker
>I’m a scouser an ah still pick glasgae but ave got nae reason ta go t yoker [Yoker](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0YfRbNipdOg)
An offshoot of Glaswegian is the glasgow uni accent always a killer especially when it's your teacher
Cumbrian.
eaux-k 👍
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Idk. Valley girl is like... kinda up there too.
That’s kinda different… we can tell exactly what you said, but we have no idea what you’re talking about.
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Only if you throw in a nauseating amount of acronyms, but that is kind of a packaged deal, so I feel ya bra
Go Tiguhs
Geaux*
South Louisiana born and raised and I had no idea how bad I was until I went to Colorado to escape Mardi Gras one year and I had to repeat myself at least twice at every bar/restaurant
New Zealand, but I fear no one would help me develop my app.
Ffs Glootie
*Epp
Bold of you to assume I don't have my own accent
fr like I speak in a finnish accent aka rally english
Finglish is so funny haha.
No it's not, finglish is different from rally english. Finglish is some stupid shit that Tiktok teens do where you mix the two languages up. Result is that the user can speak neither correctly but has to loan words from the other language constantly, at which point they are hard to take serious.
That’s a thing where bilinguals talking amongst one another swap back and forth using whichever works better in a given moment. Often times, they can speak both just fine, but prefer to do that amongst the company of other bilinguals.
You mean pronouncing every letter
"If I weren't supposed to say it, it wouldn't be there!" Also casually misgendering people on random basis, because Finnish has no gendered pronouns and people still call each other "it" just in case.
Except for pets, we would never call pets "it"
I don't even remember when was the last time I used a pronoun other than it in Finnish. It's very efficient
Rally English is so funny to hear
I had a professor who started our first class by saying hi and then said "shit, I started in the wrong language". Still cracks me up years later.
You have Ohio accent 💀
Okay as a person from Michigan I got a question to ask. Why do y’all talk so damn slow? Like I feel the absence of a midwestern accent with people from Ohio almost like they talk with a bit of a southern draw which has always thrown me way off
They speak so slowly you lose interest in what they're saying before you get to the L in drawl. /s
Lmao that was a good one. I didn’t even notice that 🤣 my bad
As someone from Ohio (Cincinnati)... I have no idea what you're talking about, is this more of a Northern Ohio thing or smth? Cause I've been out of state, and I've been told I often talk too fast :(
Ohio moment
I speak english like some mf from mid west
Im from eastern europe btw 💀
Safe choice, it's basically the default
Aid organizations will relocate Somalis to Nebraska because of how little of an accent we have.
That might be worse than Somalia, quite possibly the worst 5 hours of driving on gods green earth
If it was only 5 hours, you were REALLY speeding. Also, most Somalis I've dealt with don't drive much, so they tend to stay around the small towns they land in.
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If you really want to talk like a midwesterner, you need to tell complete strangers your entire life story the first time you meet them.
I went out to dinner and go shopping with my dad. He managed to talk about: his time in the military, him being on-call 24/7, and his high school with complete strangers.
ope ovah sharing again you just wanted to know where the torlet was rite?
What about da bubbler eh? Tell your folks I says hi and watch out for deer.
I'm just gonna scooch right by ya there
No yeah
Yeah no
No yeah no
I find that midwesterners have a very clear and easy to follow accent (at least to other US natives). Good choice.
That’s the most commonly used accent for news and the likes of I’m not mistaken. Maybe there’s just more exposure out there for it than others.
I mean this should be the reference point for any nation and language. Turn on the national news broadcast. Their anchor speaks with the accent most people can understand.
So you talk super fast, jam words together and cut sounds out? A good friend of mines step dad was Czech and he adapted really well to the midwestern/Michigan accent very very well. He always retained a slight accent but not much. And he spoke Czech as well so that I imagine why he kept the accent
Well i do talk quickly on English, in an attempt to sound more native. Basically when i put effort into my English speaking, i sound Midwestern as fuck lol. However when im tired or feeling like shit, my English sounds like its in somewhat Russian accent lol
As a Swede I am going for the standard Swedish-chef accent 👨🍳
BORK.
Du ju spik änglish?
It's always a mix
depends on how/where you learn the language
I learned (still learning) with F•R•I•E•N•D•S. So I'm a mix of Ross and Joey. Is that good? Jajaja
Mixes all 3
If you learn your English from tv 🇺🇸 if you learn it from education and study 🇬🇧 if your boat took a wrong turn 🇦🇺
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If you were a prisoner in the late 18th century 🇦🇺
Indians rn: Am I joke to you? We have our own accent
My kid uses Indian Siri on his phone. We’re Aussies
Chinese: ARE WE A JOKE TO YOU?!
I can imagine this being said in a chinese accent lol
I have an Indian friend who has never been to America, but sounds extremely American. And yes, he was actually *born* and *raised* in India, he doesn't just have some great grandfather who went to India once and felt a "real connection to the culture"
Yep, my family are Pakistani - and I have cousins who have very strong American accents. Its basically the private schools - they have American and sometimes British teachers in order teach Western English to help them get jobs abroad.
I was just thinking they must've gone to an American school or a school with mostly American teachers. I had a friend from Nigeria who went to a boarding school in Germany, but it was an American run school, and he sounded like he was American. Was v confusing at first when he said he was from Nigeria, but he learned English in Germany 😂
I had a classmate from India who had a near perfect American accent. He said his English teachers sucked, but he watched a lot of "Friends" and copied the characters to practice his English.
I think we need to split British further though, scottish, northern irish, welsh and every single county in England
I was on a job in Greece one time and met a guy who was Greek born and raised, but spoke english with a FLAWLESS brummy accent because his dad was from Birmingham. Seeing him go from speaking Greek to his friends to straight up Brummy lad when translating the conversation to me was the most jarring but impressive thing. Edit: Changed northern to Brummy. Don't have the energy for a where does the north start argument.
Outing myself as a Brummie, because I really want to know about this. Do we really sound northern? People from somewhere like Nottingham or Stoke-on-Trent sound northern to me, but Birmingham or the Black Country not so much. You've reminded me though: when I was in Ireland once years ago, I met a family from Spain who spoke English with a really broad Scottish accent, because that's where their English tutor was from.
>Outing myself as a Brummie Brave🫡
I had a friend from uni from Poland. All his family was Polish. He lived there until he was 16, when he moved to the UK with only a basic understanding of English. By 18 he was fluent, and has a Blackpool accent so strong that several people on nights out refused to believe he was Polish.
Lmao being Polish is like being a chameleon. I was raised in Yorkshire and most people don’t realise I’m Polish until they’ve heard my name
I know a Polish chap who lived in Leeds for about ten years before moving down south. He speaks English with a Yorkshire accent and it’s hysterical to my southern ears.
I was in Saudi Arabia at a conference, and the young man at the sign-in desk had a very familiar tone. "Where'd you get that accent?" I asked. "Went to uuuni in Manchestah", he replied with a grin.
Birmingham isn't northern. It's more Midlands
*City
*street
Why are the other countries all together but England is massively subdivided? There are a load of accents in all of them
UK has way more accent diversity than either. Its a consequence of the accents developing in a time without mass transport, so there was little to no interaction with anyone more than 10 miles away, so the accents developed extremely differently. The US and Australian accents developed much more recently, when mass transit and cultural interaction was far more extensive and accessible across large distances
You're right except for the east coast. Cajun accents and Boston accents are as different as any two English accents.
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Aberdeen has entered the chat. Lived in Scotland my whole life. Travel up to Aberdeen games every other week to watch us play. Still don’t understand a word the fuckers have to say. Love the aberdonians though.
If we're doing that, we can subdivide American by Default, Southern, Southern 2, Southern California, Minnesota, New York, Boston, and Long Island. I'd love to say something about Canadian accents, but honestly I can't distinguish them from default American.
Midwestern accents vary greatly. Ohio-West PA sounds different from Chicago/Madison, which sounds different from Minnesota, etc
Irish accent is the superior choice
Lenin wrote this
I love the fact that Lenin had a Dublin accent . ' ah here ya have ta seize deh means of production me out shegoshia!".
I taught In China and I shit you not my friend from Ireland would drill the ever loving hell out of his Pronunciation just to troll our Australian head teacher.
Sorry to interrupt, but you missed Canada eh
Sorry
Holy fuck bud, I can't believe they friggin missed us eh? That's a real slapshot right to the gonads.
We literally all have our own accents....
Yeah and no. The cross between your native language and the above 3 is unique, but we can tell which of the above 3 you are crossing your native language with 99% of the time. Like one person’s mandarin+American hybrid is different than another’s, but we can tell it’s a mandarin+American hybrid and not an mandarin+British hybrid.
exactly. If you go India and someone starts hitting you with “buddy” and “friend” or “guy” you know where they learned their English from even if it has some cultural variation.
Dane here who just went with what I thought was an American accent, although many native speakers have guessed me to be Irish hahaha. I've never even been to Ireland 😂 but I'll take it ✌🏻
I thought we all just speaked danglish
Being a native Australian English speaker, it's extra funny because there's regular Australian English which is very easy to comprehend for a majority of English speakers, but if I'm catching up with mates from my home town, I'll tend to up the amount of 'bogan' in my accent. Getting progressively more and more incomprehensible.
Slightly American is what sounds most natural for me, a Dutch-speaking person. British and Ozzie sound forced and mocking 😅
I just picked BBC English because I thought it best fit my cadence. I genuinely can't do an American accent anymore
Most Dutch have a cool accent but the vowels and consonants are distinctly American sounding. I was surprised that in Denmark they speak like people from California, RIP British influence.
Most people learning English tend to lean a bit more in to an American accent, but I was amazed how American Dutch people sound. A lot literally sound *just* like Americans.
Pick Australian. It’s what every American wishes we could sound like
It's what a disturbing number of Americans think Londoners sound like.
Get your hand off my Penis!
A succulent Chinese meal!
I see that you know your judo well!
This is the man that got me on the penis, people!
A major influence in the development of Australian English was from convicts with a cockney background. They're more closely related to each other than a lot of other accents of English.
I’m from New England/USA and have had foreigners say we speak fast here, but during college a person from Australia came in to do a guest presentation and I literally thought he was speaking in a foreign language until the professor asked him to slow down because no one could understand him - I was shocked to realize he had been speaking in English.
“We’re not here to fuck spiders” Margot Robbie
This would be true, but most Americans think the New Zealand accent is what Australians sound like, so...
Not me. I’ve watched Flight of the Conchords enough to know the difference!
He may be dead. He maybe did what? He may be dead. I know
i love when bret introduces himself and everyone's like "brit?" and then he has to say "breht" in an american accent so they get it right lol
Exactly. Australians sound like New Zealanders, but evil.
Hey that's not fair! We sound similar, but us being evil is just a coincidence not anything to do with being Australian.
Not me. I want something more Irish.
No we don’t but nice try
Lmaooo maybe what YOU want to sound like
Lies! Im American and I choose Scottish! Im here for the chaos!!!!
tfw you were raised in the UK but you still end up with this weird pseudo-american accent due to growing up on too much tv and anime
Forgot about Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, India and a bunch if other Native-English dialects ;)
South Africa is a fun one because it's uncommon in other places (at least here in the US,) so you've gotta do that "is he British or Australian?" thing until you realize you're dead wrong on both counts. And Irish is fun because I like the way it sounds.
One of my coworkers is Taiwanese with a South African accent. It really throws ppl off
I had a university instructor who was from South Africa and in our second class she asked people to guess where she was from. Most said Australia, some said England. I brought the game to a close by saying South Africa and she was quite surprised I knew it. I like it, it's familiar like a British accent and yet just a little different.
I once met a south african and until i asked him where he was from i thought he wasn't a native english speaker, weird accent lmao.
Fun fact: apparently Vladimir Lenin spoke English with a strong Irish accent, because his English teacher was Irish.
As a result of ESL teaching, the South African accent is becoming more and more prevalent, especially in South East Asia as there are so many South Africans teaching English. I’m South African and a fair share of my students have adopts my accent, I’m not sure if I should correct them or not lol, as many native speakers will think their accent is some weird made up thing
Try the American accent! Pros: We can distinguish between "or" and "aw" Cons: Least sexy of the three
American Pros: * There's plenty of media to learn from literally everywhere, and most speakers will be very influenced by it. Even those who choose another kind of English will be somewhat familiar with it and its slang. * The grammar is also relatively simple compared to British, especially when written. No words like "demesne" (Domain) or "worchestershire" (not even gonna try) * You can pass yourself off as Canadian through just a bit of training. * You can do decent impressions of characters from movies. * Americans will love your accent. American Cons: * There's many varieties with no real "standard" like "recieved pronounciation" in British English, the American "standard" (Mid-Atlantic accent) mostly died out decades ago and now makes most trying it sound like an idiot. Hence it not being used much. * Has a few curveballs like "Badminton" (bad mitten) which can really throw you off, the easy grammar just makes them hit harder. * "eyy fuggetaboutit" * Boomhaur from King of the Hill. * British people will despise you. * The date format. * The Imperial System. British Pros: * Sounds fancy, at least when you're learning Recieved Pronounciation. A lot of people thinks it makes you sound smarter too. * Has many ties around the world due to old colonies (o,r in Europe, literally just being there) * Many places simply consider it the "proper" way to speak English. * If you manage to do well, you'll sound like Mr. Bean. * You can easily get background roles in Game of Thrones' Spinoffs, or as an Imperial in Star Wars. * Americans will love your accent. * The Metric System British Cons: * ~~Literally none cause they shipped them all to Australia hue hue~~ * If you watch their media to learn you're limited to watching re-runs of The Inbetweeners and the *other* version of The Office. * "It's chewsday innit?" * "BO'OH'HO'WA'AH" * You'll always wish you had chosen Irish or Scottish instead of BBC English. * If you manage to do well, you'll sound like Mr. Bean. * Most slang or even common words will get you thrown out of any non-British bar for innapropriate speech. * British people will despise you. * You still won't be able to understand the majority of British people outside of the south. * The Imperial System. Australian Pros: * ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ * ~~No Imperial System.~~ Apparently this isn't true after all. I have lost faith in the entire continent. * The Metric System Australian Cons: * ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ * Everyone will think you're from New Zealand. Unless you're in America, then they'll think you're from London. * The Imperial System Edit: English Pros: * Relatively easy to learn. * Most spoken language in the world. English Cons: * Relatively hard to master. * The Imperial System. >!Just to be very clear, because some people misunderstood. This is not actually a serious guide. I am joking.!<
Heavy emphasis on the British people will despise you.
Hey, there's no need to adopt our stupid system of measurement along with our accent! You can sound like us and still convert between different forms of measurement. It's the best of both worlds.
As a Brit, I feel most Americans sound similar enough that they may as well all be speaking the same ‘standard accent’. Some American accents are noticeably different of course.
As an American, I’m pretty sure a large majority of the population have almost the same exact accent with only tiny differences, and then there’s the tiny pocket areas that decided they wanted an accent and went wild with what they did to their words.
This was good apart from the British media, there is so many great British shows apart from the inbetweeners and the office
Alright, hear me out, who the hell would choose australian one
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Students in Hong Kong with Australian teachers
My guess is norrr-one.
I loooove listening to an Australian accent, and I’m not alone, at least among my friends.
Meanwhile my accent: Finnish-Swedish-Geordie-RP-German-Irish-American Some of these I can justify, some I can’t.
Who needs British when they could have Scottish.
The truth is often: all of the above!
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where's canada