Accents

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  • tycusjay
    tycusjay Posts: 103 Member
    Aussie accent with a bit of a New Zealand accent peeking through every now and then
  • catshark209
    catshark209 Posts: 1,133 Member
    Northern California. Sometimes I sound like every sentence is a question but it isn't. I also say "hella", like hella times. Sorry :happy:

    When I'm tired you can tell I am not a native English speaker, my Spanish accent creeps out.
  • EuroDriver12
    EuroDriver12 Posts: 805 Member
    Russian,ukrainian,estonian mixed with english lol
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    I don't have an accent.
  • DKev
    DKev Posts: 266 Member
    I'm a born and raised Midwestern girl so I don't have much of an accent but married a Brit so his accent sticks out around here lol
  • amv1023
    amv1023 Posts: 61 Member
    My accent changes according to the crowd. Most of the time I speak with a pretty standard accent, but when I'm with my dad's side of the family, I slip into a loud hillbilly twang. Since moving to Nebraska I've met several people from Minnesota and I've picked up some things from them. It's kind of embarrassing because I think sometimes people think I'm making fun of them, but I'm not. It just happens.

    I moved from Minnesota to Nebraska a year ago and haven't heard a single person who sounds like me yet lol. People here make fun of my accent and feel the need to quote lines from "Fargo", drives me crazy!
  • TexasNurseMom78
    TexasNurseMom78 Posts: 897 Member
    I love my Texas twang. I can really turn it on strong too if the situation calls for it!
  • Jessamin
    Jessamin Posts: 338 Member
    I guess it's a New Zealand accent for the most part, but SO OFTEN people ask me if I'm from the US because I sound like it. I don't really know what that's about, but I guess it's a NZ/US hybrid.
  • sheppeyescapee
    sheppeyescapee Posts: 329 Member
    I used to have a strong east end london accent (cockney) but it has softened over the years I've been living in the south west. Now it is a combination cockney/bristolian accent which some people find hilarious. Probably the worst accents to combine together in my opinion :P
  • elbandito
    elbandito Posts: 157
    Kiwi here. Anyone interested in me recording a sample for people to hear?
  • angeldelight13
    angeldelight13 Posts: 177 Member
    Im from south east england, to everyone else i probably sound a bit like a londoner, over here i just sound as common as muck :happy:
  • Pebble321
    Pebble321 Posts: 6,423 Member
    I'm a sucker for accents... I like just about any of them (though Queensland and New Zealand accents don't do much for me - sorry!)

    My accent is (I've been told) Australian, but not a strong accent, leaning towards English - in fact, people often think I'm from England.
  • sweetbri07
    sweetbri07 Posts: 150 Member
    I'm from the good 'ol Pacific Northwest (seattle area).....but honestly I'm not sure what my "accent" sounds like....some people have actually asked me where I was born (VA), cause I sometimes talk like I'm from the eastcoast, yet from the westcoast, yet I sometimes drawl and twang my words like I'm from the south.....I'm apparently just a giant barrel of accents, which I quite like!!

    As to accents I love.....Irish, Australian and Italian.....and a good old fashioned southern drawl. Makes me weak in the knees. :love:
  • seal57
    seal57 Posts: 1,259 Member
    I have an Aussie accents.....

    In my job I meet people from all over.....One accent I really love was a couple from Finland.....
  • _Ben
    _Ben Posts: 1,608 Member
    I dont have an accent. Im from the midwest. Everyone wants to sound like us
  • xSophia19
    xSophia19 Posts: 1,536 Member
    i was born in stoke on trent (UK) soo i had a very strong stokey accent. i moved to Wales when i was 9 and ive lived here for 10 years now so my accent is a little welshy, not a strong welsh accent, but a little =)
  • mruntidy
    mruntidy Posts: 1,015 Member
    Yeah I think I am similar, I was born and raised in the Midlands but never thought I had a strong accent, went to university at Wolverhampton where I noticed other peoples a lot more and then moved up North to Manchester where everyone says I have a real strong black country accent - I think it's weird though as I don't think I have an accent myself but have picked up a lot of the northern lingo that when I am back home people don't understand which makes me chuckle :)
  • sms1986
    sms1986 Posts: 113 Member
    My accent is typically Lancastrian, although according to some my accent has influences from nearby regions, which is probably true.
  • SlowlyFighting
    SlowlyFighting Posts: 34 Member
    My mum is from Bucks so when I first joined a new school everyone thought I sounded really posh, but now when I hear myself talk on the phone or anything I sound so northern! Manchester accent wins again! I don't really like it though, I'd rather sit on grars and take barths... Strange?

    I love the Geordie accent and I never really liked the Black Country accent, but then I met this really good looking guy from Dudley, and suddenly it isn't so bad... Haha.
  • SlowlyFighting
    SlowlyFighting Posts: 34 Member
    i was born in stoke on trent (UK) soo i had a very strong stokey accent. i moved to Wales when i was 9 and ive lived here for 10 years now so my accent is a little welshy, not a strong welsh accent, but a little =)

    And my sister goes to Keele uni, she loves talking in a Stokey accent when she comes home. Some little phrase about kicking a ball at a wall or something, I can never understand it, let alone remember it!
  • Chairless
    Chairless Posts: 583 Member
    Yorkshire, England

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFvMsmw0a2U
  • Solly123
    Solly123 Posts: 162 Member
    Irish accent here (being from Ireland!!:bigsmile: )

    Love accents. Remember being on a Equestrian holiday in California and one of the ladies in the group was from the south (no idea where - but she sounded like she should have been in Gone with the Wind) and I could listen to her all day,

    Love Swedish accent, Scottish, Welsh, very posh english (?? No idea, but I love listening to it) and I like american accents, but I don't know where they are from... I mean, I like certain US accents, but I've no idea where they are from.

    Don't like Janice's (Chandlers girlfriend in Friends) accent. Find it very harsh and I've to really listen to catch all the words. Like the Texan accent.. There are loads of other accents I like, but never got the nerve to ask people where their accent was from!! :bigsmile:
  • chugglebunny
    chugglebunny Posts: 63
    I'm South East England, Hertfordshire to those who know it (about 10 miles north of London for those who don't) I've been told I sound quite posh by northern friends but compared to proper "queens English" i'm common as muck. Depending on the situation and how fast i'm talking I can get more common or more well spoken.

    I'm a sucker for Australian or South African accents, they are both incredibly sexy
  • katya73
    katya73 Posts: 464
    I was born and raised in Southern Europe .. however I have lived mainly in Australia for 19 years soo my accent sounds Australian but slightly britsh I guess ... So I get told !! It's really different
  • stayxtrue
    stayxtrue Posts: 1,186 Member
    I was born and raised in Southern Europe .. however I have lived mainly in Australia for 19 years soo my accent sounds Australian but slightly britsh I guess ... So I get told !! It's really different

    And here I thought you were a real aussie :P
  • KitTheRoadie
    KitTheRoadie Posts: 641 Member
    What what, I am from the South West of the UK, where the Scrumpy Cider comes from! Although I don't hear my accent I reckon I talk like a farmer!
  • katya73
    katya73 Posts: 464
    I was born and raised in Southern Europe .. however I have lived mainly in Australia for 19 years soo my accent sounds Australian but slightly britsh I guess ... So I get told !! It's really different

    And here I thought you were a real aussie :P


    Hahahaha !!!! C'mon Jamie ... 19 years in this awesome country .. Makes me half AU
  • stayxtrue
    stayxtrue Posts: 1,186 Member
    I was born and raised in Southern Europe .. however I have lived mainly in Australia for 19 years soo my accent sounds Australian but slightly britsh I guess ... So I get told !! It's really different

    And here I thought you were a real aussie :P


    Hahahaha !!!! C'mon Jamie ... 19 years in this awesome country .. Makes me half AU

    I will grant this.. Only because your an awesome person :D
  • kendrafallon
    kendrafallon Posts: 1,030 Member
    British, Leicester lass here :happy: I don't have a regional accent, per se, however the way I say things is typical for Leicester. I'm told by my friends that I have a very posh accent :noway: which I don't believe. Though saying that, my accent gets posher, more English and more noticeable when I'm abroad :laugh: as my Aussie friends pointed out when I was there for my recent hols!
  • mruntidy
    mruntidy Posts: 1,015 Member
    My mum is from Bucks so when I first joined a new school everyone thought I sounded really posh, but now when I hear myself talk on the phone or anything I sound so northern! Manchester accent wins again! I don't really like it though, I'd rather sit on grars and take barths... Strange?

    I love the Geordie accent and I never really liked the Black Country accent, but then I met this really good looking guy from Dudley, and suddenly it isn't so bad... Haha.

    haha I think your the first person to say that and Dudley is a really thick Black Country accent did he ask you for a 'kipper tie'
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