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yeah i was really disappointed with another character her name was gi and she was a chinese character and wikipedia says that she was voiced by jackie chan and i'm like uh two things i wish that that's a female you know because jackie is a female name you know it depends how you spell it and uh but come on i mean fine they couldn't find a russian
actress to play linka but jackie chan to play a chinese girl i'm like oh because sometimes you know in the cartoon you know girls do girly things and like saving dolphins and stuff and guys are doing the fire you know trying to extinguish the fire
or plant trees or whatever but like jackie chan voicing gi and you know like because instead of saying water she's like watcher like watcher um yeah so
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Sam here. I figured that I had some time over Christmas, so I should get back into Klango after being away from it for over a year now. And I had some change to spare, so I figured I'd lend support to a project that I've been involved in for a number of years. Anyway, really interesting thread. My accent tends to be... I tend to sound very Midwestern American,
because I live in Canada, but we're so close to the United States border. And the closer you get to the United States border, the more American the Canadian sound. But then once you get in further away from the US border, there's more of a unique Canadian accent that's going on. I think my accent was also diluted because I live in the city of Toronto, which is an extremely international city. And all throughout my primary school, at least for the first three or four years, I was
the only person in my class who was born in Canada and a native English speaker, just because the city is so international. So I think my Canadian accent got diluted by hearing the mostly Asian accents that I was surrounded with when I was growing up. Mostly Chinese, and some Korean, and other Indian, other Asian accents. So I tend to have a preference for the Asian accents, because I find them easy to understand,
and I don't notice them, because they're what I grew up with. I tend not to like the strong Southern US accents. Not because I find them hard to understand, just because they... I'm just not a fan of that sound. I don't mind it on guys, so much as, for some reason, American females with a very broad Tex accent, I just... It's kind of grating to me.
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Hi guys, this is Leslie. This is a very interesting thread. I also love accents. Where to start? I think my own is pretty much standard American. I have been living in Germany for a very long time. About 12 and a half years now. Some people, when they hear me speak German, tell me they think I have a trace of either American or English. Some have said that I've picked up a trace of English since I've been here. I don't sense that myself.
Not that I would mind, because I personally find British English much prettier than American English. Raised in Pennsylvania, actually. That's where I come from. I think I tend to speak very straight, very standard English. Maybe because of reading a lot and also having a very dramatic personality, so I tend to pick up things.
I have a lot of different dialects, very many different accents. I mean, just saying British English is oversimplified. But the pure British English and various dialects of it, I find very musical. Much softer than what I find rather harsh American English. So that's my personal preference. I had to smile, because Sam, when you said that your Canadian accent got a little bit diluted, I'm sure it did, but I recognized
one particular, the way you said the word out, I can't do it, but that was very Canadian. I have a close friend of mine who was born and raised in Buffalo, and she drew my attention to that. She used to speak like that all the time and mention that's a very Canadian thing, and I recognized that when you used it, so I had to smile. Yeah, that's pretty much all, but I also enjoy other accents as well, French, German, and I think it's going to cut me off, so I'll quit while I'm ahead and say goodbye. Talk to you soon. Bye-bye.
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Hello everyone, it's Creature. First of all, I like this thread. I think it's a very interesting topic. It's always been something I have found rather fascinating myself. I don't have any kind of special accent. I'm what is around this area known as Backwoods Country.
I come from North Carolina, down here in the United States. Well, to be quite honest with you, by most standards, I'm not what you'd call educated. However, I learned that a lot of people can deduce a lot of things by the way some people speak. I'll tell you a brief story. This might take a couple of posts.
I applied for a job one time. The guy didn't think I could do the work just because of my accent. Two years later, I ended up rebuilding four computers for the same guy's company. I was pretty impressed with that. But anyway, I just thought I'd put my two cents worth here. I definitely have some very diverse accents.
I have a lot of things that are very pleasing to the ear and lots of things that I didn't know. I certainly understand about having a favorite, least favorite. I don't know that I do. Anyway, I'll be back soon. All take care.
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Okay, I'm going to try this again. It's a creature, and I apologize for that previous recording. I didn't realize that I hadn't turned the microphone back up on this. This isn't a machine I use very often. Some of you that know me know that I tinker on computers a lot, and I do all sorts of... I guess I'm... well, they don't call me the crazy creature for nothing. I tinker on computers, I build cars, and...
I ride horses for fun. As well as drive my friends crazy. People see a message from me, they go, oh no, not him again. Anyway, I had a thought I would mention this in here, speaking of accents, because I used to get lots and lots of statements about this. Some years ago, I dated a young lady who had grown up in various parts of the UK.
She had a very much British accent, and when people would see us together, they would know, just by listening to us speak, that she was the smart one of the couple. And a friend of hers once said, what's the matter, you couldn't do any better than a southern redneck?
And I said, well, you know, I'm not classified as a redneck. I grew up in a situation that taught me a lot about life at a very young age, and taught me how to do many things that, were the situation different, I may not have been able to do. And all I have left to do is go back to college and finish my degree, and that's coming very soon. Anyway, all takes
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Hello, this is Nana and I have an accent that you don't hear so well. It's not so accurate. I have a Swedish accent because that's where I was born and have lived for all my life. But due to being so much on Skype and such things, the word Swedish accent has disappeared, I hope.
Or something. Oh, this is so nice with voice form. I can hear all your voices and there's so many of you I would like to meet on Skype and such. All right. But thanks to listen to me anyway. And it would be nice to hear if you can trace any Swedishisms in what I say. All right. Thanks for listening.
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Hello everybody, I'm updating here live from Magpie Pizza, where I'm in a meeting with my future record executive. He's discussing signing me to a deal, and I thought I'd post him in this thread, because he has the wildest accent you've ever heard. Come on, Tom. Come on, Tom. Hello, this is Tom, and I'm just going to sign James to a record deal, because he's so freaking great at singing. Alright, that was Tom. Isn't that a crazy accent? Yeah, I know, I thought so. Alright, well, have a nice day. Bye.
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Hello, this is Toby from Hamburg, Germany. Well, I don't know what kind of accent I've got. I only know that I learned English at school and I only had German teachers. And all of them used a pretty bad German accent and I hated it since I started learning English. I just wanted to get rid of the German accent because I don't like it. So I often listen to British TV stations and radio stations and stuff.
I don't know what kind of accent it is. I was in London sometimes because my cousin lived there. She grew up there. She's English. And she doesn't want to speak German to me so I always have to speak English. But I don't know what kind of accent it is. I think it's changed sometimes because it depends on the person I'm talking to.
Well, I don't know. Maybe you can find out.
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That is such a cool accent. I honestly wouldn't have thought that you were German. I would have thought you were British. But in actual fact you've got kind of a mix from here anyway. A sort of mix between London and West Midlands. That's really kind of cool. It just sounds like you've been in England all your life and sort of moved around a bit. It's a little bit slangy though. You sort of drop a lot of letters and stuff. But I think it's kind of cool.
I really do like that accent.
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I was talking with Nana last night and it came about we got to talking about this little story that I told her a while ago and I'm amazed I've never put it on here so I'm gonna do it now. When I was about four years old I was at school and there was a lady that worked in the kitchen called Teresa and she was Italian and her accent was so strong that you could barely understand a word she said or at least I could and I was actually a bit frightened of her because
I was always a bit scared of people with strange accents when I was a child and anyway this one day I was sitting in the dining room and I asked what was for tea and somebody said it was Cornish pasties which were at the time something I didn't like and so I stuck out my tongue and went bleh and a whole bunch of other kids started doing the same and Teresa walked in and she went don't do that he's not very nice so yuck
perfect 6-8 it was so funny and it's just stuck as a trademark phrase for me ever since it's just like like now if anything happens that's a bit disgusting or a bit yucky I don't want to do that he's not very nice so yuck
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Hello everyone, this is Amy and I'm from Germany. This thread is very nice and my favorite accent is British English. And my favorite accent in Germany is the normal German. And so I speak it and I try to speak British English. The accent I don't like is Bavarian because it's so hard.
Yes, that was it. Okay then, bye and good night. Here in Germany, it's half past 11 p.m. I think. But I don't know it. I haven't got a clock here. Okay then, good night.
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Well, hello, Amy. It's pretty funny that I talk to you in English because both of us, we are German. Well, we'll start by German accents. I agree with you, I don't like Bavarian accent, but it's maybe because I'm from Hamburg and we don't like Bavaria. Not only because of their football team, but what do you think about normal German? What is normal German? Okay, we call it Hochdeutsch, but it's, you know, it's rubbish, I think, because I think there isn't any normal German, you know, maybe the Germans,
they speak on telly or the news speakers or whatever, I don't know, but usually every German person has got their own dialect or an accent or whatever, and it's the same with British English, you know. I always thought when I was younger, I like British English, but, you know, what is British English? You know what I mean? You can speak, you know, lots of different types, you know, lots of different accents, you know, what is British English?
English, when you, for example, listen to the BBC World Service or the BBC radio stations or whatever, or you talk to a person from Manchester, for example. So me, for example, I often listen to BBC radio at the moment because I've got a podcatcher and I listen to all the radio shows on demand. And last week, for example, I was listening to a Liam Gallagher interview, and it's not possible for me to understand what he's talking about, you know,
I don't understand this Manchester accent, you know. I don't know why, but it's much easier to understand Noel Gallagher, you know, Liam's brother. Maybe he speaks more slowly, I don't know. But it's not, I think it's not possible for a German person to understand what Liam says, but, you know, I listen to the new BDI records and interviews about BDI and stuff. I can't understand what he's talking about. But, well, yeah, British English,
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well the problem the problem is when they uh when i was at school they wanted to teach us british english you know and we had a lot of i don't know cds and cassettes and records and we listened we listened to to native speakers and stuff but um our teachers all of them didn't speak a good english you know they just tried you know to speak correct english or whatever you know british accent or whatever i don't know but it's a rubbish you know
so yeah i don't know maybe my english not better i i don't know but because it's what's what's on but uh this is a mixture of all the the accents of her but you know well that's what i wanted to say is to say about about different accents you know um okay okay have fun
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Okay, and when we talk about accent, you know, me like the Jamaican accent, the patois, Jamaican patois, you know, them want to become their own language because, you know, them no think it's an accent, because got a lot of own words, you know, the rest I use, only the rest of ours use, and it's not the same like other patois stuff, you know, because Jamaican patois is an own language, maybe. But, you know, it's an accent, it's a dialect, whatever. And we got a lot of friends here in Hamburg,
Rastafaris from all over the world, you know, sometimes from Jamaica, from Africa, from Nigeria, Ghana, whatever. And when we talk to them, we always speak patois. And, you know, me have to go to Jamaica, maybe next year, when we got to get some money for that, because me want to learn a lot about the Rastafari, you know, I'm very interested in this religion and in the people there, in the Maroons in Jamaica and the Rastafaris and all of them guys there. Me love reggae, for example.
And me love them things, them I do, them I talk about, you know, whatever. So, yeah, this is another accent me really like. And many people say that me do it well. Me don't know about, you know, you have to find out on your own. But me often say, you know, me don't know why. So, well, yeah, that's what me wanted to say about the accent, the different accent me speak. So, have a lot of fun, Klangonians.
Jaja bless and love. You know, Rastafari live.
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You know, you're really skillful there with that accent. That's great. I still think your English accent is just cool because it's like an absolute mix of different accents. That's the thing with English. It's difficult to say what British English is because there are so many different accents. Wherever you go in England, you'll get a different accent. And some accents are stronger than others. Some accents are really pronounced.
If you go up north to Newcastle, they talk with a really pronounced accent. Then you move down to Yorkshire. In Yorkshire, it's strange because they miss the word the quite a lot. If they're going to go to shops. They don't say, I'm going to go to the shops. They say, I'm going to go to shops. Like I say, there's all kinds of accents. And that's just England alone. And again, in Scotland and Ireland and Wales. I don't know so much about Wales.
Scotland and Ireland. Different places have different accents. I love the Highland accent. I can't actually imitate it myself. But it's a beautiful accent. It almost sounds Irish. But it's actually Scottish. It's a very beautiful accent. I learnt German in school. And I loved it. And I'm sad really because I've forgotten a lot of it. But my German teacher in my last two years was actually German. I don't know whereabouts in Germany she came from. But I thought she had a lovely accent. And I liked her accent when she spoke in English too. A lot of people say,
I don't like the German accent because it's hard and whatever. But I don't think it is. And I thought that Miss Balker, my teacher, I thought she had a gorgeous accent. I could have listened to her speak all day. Which is probably why I enjoy German so much. I only wish that when I left school I carried it on and could still speak as much as I used to. Because I've just forgotten so much. And that's so sad.
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Hello everyone, this is Amy. Hello Lynn. Thank you for your nice feedback about my accent. In my school there is only one accent and this is the school English accent. And all of the English teachers speak it.
And my teacher speaks British English. And she was in England. I think she often was in England. But I don't know it. And I don't know where she was. And I love British English. And so I want to learn it. And so I learn it. And I hope I can speak like her.
And if you want to learn German, this is no problem. Send me a message and I can help you with your German. And you can help me with my English. Okay then. Bye.
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That would be kind of fun, actually, if I wasn't so shy. I remember once when I was at secondary school in my first year, we had a guy come for us to speak to. He was German, and he came into our German lessons. Do you know something? I couldn't utter a word of German in front of him, because he was German. You see, in my first year, my German teacher was English, and apparently I was the star of the class. I used to get really high marks, but...
He put me in front of a German guy, and I was lost. Oh my god, I can't. I can't do it. And I kind of got over it in my last couple of years of school. Like I said, my German teacher was German, so I had to speak German in front of a German person. And I loved it! But of course, because I haven't done it for such a long time, I'm kind of shy again. I've lost the... I've lost the... I don't know what the word is. I just sort of get all tongue-tied and stuff. At the minute, I'm actually trying to learn Swedish, because my boyfriend's Swedish. Now, that's a beautiful accent. The Swedish accent.
And again, I've got three very willing teachers, my boyfriend included, but they all speak different dialects and have different accents. So when I learn something from one of them, I can say it in front of the person who's taught me it, and then I find when I come to say it to one of the other two, I'm always thinking, oh gosh, I'm going to get it wrong. They're going to tell me I'm wrong. It's this silly shyness thing. But I should imagine, if I were to let go and actually try and speak some Swedish, I would have a very mixed Swedish accent,
different teachers who come from three different parts of Sweden.
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Well, hi, this is Rachel, or Moongazer. Um, I've been posting a lot, so you guys can probably, uh, hear my voice, but, um, and you guys can probably tell, I mean, like I said, uh, like somebody else said, I was skimming over some, I was listening to some certain places, but, um, towards the beginning, too. Um, somebody said, judge my accent for yourself. That's kind of what I said. I, I mean,
kind of what I say. Um, some people say I don't have an accent, some people say I'm very typical Californian. Um, I would think I'm more typical Californian because, you know, I've always lived here in, uh, California. I mean, not always, but, except for four years in Hong Kong. But I come from Hong Kong, but I lost my, um, Chinese accent. So it's now American or none. That's what a lot of people say. Um,
like, two years ago, somebody said there was a tinge, but that was one person. And one person was saying something about my inflection, but, um, yeah, I think I have a California accent, and I live in California, so not surprising, very typical. There's also the southern accent, I don't know if the knee is appeared on here, and the eastern, and different parts of the country. Um,
my accent belongs very much, uh, in California, um, LA, Valley area, kind of, you know. Um, yeah. Um, and I'm not going to try to imitate the Chinese accent at all. I can't do it. Uh, even though I had an accent, I can't do it. Um, sometimes,
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However, sometimes if I'm really tired, um, I guess you can catch it. And if I'm talking really fast, you can catch it as well. Um, a little tinge just messing up and talking and stuff like that. Um, like, usually it's not there. Um, and it doesn't really take any effort, so.
This is how I talk, this is how I sound. Um, and, um, I've tried to pick up the British, but I'm not very good in it. Um, I don't think, someone told me I sound very posh. Um, so, yeah, um, don't speak much British. I try to learn some slang here and there.
But, um, yeah. Um, anyway, that's my imitation of British English. Uh, but, then again, you know, probably not any good. Anyway, uh, yeah, well, I'll see you then.
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Well, hiya people! I know it's been ages since this thread was last posted, but I figured since the voice forums are working again, at least at this time, I figured I'd post something here because I really like this thread. As far as my own accent is concerned, although I'm from Germany, actually, my accent is...
pretty Native American. Yeah, it's just the kind of... I really hate talking with a German accent, and I think it's just the accent that's easier for me to speak in. I can actually imitate a British accent, and I would say I'm quite decent at it, but it just takes more effort to talk with a British.
I don't have a British accent because I think, you know, that... you have to make, like, wider movements with your mouth and such, and that can be a little bit more... it takes a little bit more effort. But yeah, I... yeah, I don't know. American English is just easier for me. So yeah, I really like accents and different intonations and languages, and that's why I like this thread so much.
And I hope it's gonna be... I hope it's gonna be maintained because... and that it's... yeah, being posted on. But I have to stop because it... I have to stop the recording because I'm... yeah. This is gonna run out.
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Okay, I figured I'd do another post entirely in my British accent. Like I said, it's a bit more... It takes a bit more effort, I don't know why. Maybe it's... I said in the previous post that it had got something to do with the wider movement that you have to make with your mouth, but I'm not 100% certain. In fact, I'm getting quite well along now. I don't know if I... And I really...
I'm not 100% sure which accent I'm going to use for, you know, this... At first I thought I'd stick to my American way because it's easier, but since I'm getting quite well along with that accent right now, I think that it's... Yeah. I don't know, maybe...
It also depends on the person I'm actually talking to. If I'm talking to a Brit, I think I would more tend to switch to a British accent, and if I talk to an American, I would speak with an American accent. So, yeah. But this is it. I already got the first warning that my post is about to run out, and I think there are... I think I already said everything
there is to say. Oh, there was the second warning. So, I better end this post here.
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Oh, and I think I actually forgot where I picked up these accents. Yeah, it's actually got something to do with... I got that American accent from my English teacher who speaks with a rather American thing. It's not quite American because he doesn't use the rhonic R at the end of words like ever.
He says ever with a British manner. I don't know why he talks that kind of mix. I think he just wants to adopt to the school English, but I don't know, it's weird. But yeah, so that's the way I got the American accent from my English teacher and to listening to various people on podcasts and all that.
And my British accent was also to just, you know, listen to a lot of people speak, and I also got a half-sister living in the UK now. She originally comes from Germany, but she lived in the UK for ages now, and she also has got a rather nice-sounding, posh British accent. And yeah, so...
Yeah, this is how I picked them up. So I think that's it for me now. I already got the second warning that my post is about to run out, so I'd better stop here. Bye!
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You know what, guys? I, um... You could never guess where I'm from. Although, um... People say that you could tell, but nevertheless... I'm from Poland, but, um... I live in Great Britain for quite a few years now, and... Um... I can do American accent very well, I think. Although I've never been to America. And... Um... Well... Um... There are a lot of impressions I can do. I'm quite good at picking up accents, but, um...
I think I'll do that in a second post, but... For now... I just want to say that... You can, you know, tell me if you want what type of accent you think mine is, but... This is my British accent. It's nice. Um... People say it sounds... Well, obviously there is some Polish sound to it, but then... It's Brummie, which is... Brummie is, um... Like a... City in Birmingham. I mean... What the hell? Sorry. There is a city in England called Birmingham. You probably know it. And Brummie is like a... Slang slash...
Accent. Um... Yeah, in Birmingham. So... It's a mixture of that and, uh... And Polish... Kind of accents, so... Maybe there are some other ones as well. I can do other impressions anyway, but as I said, I'll do that in a second post. Thank you.
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Yeah, your accent is rather interesting. I, at first, you know, when I listened to a lot of, when I listened to, uh, like, your first, uh, thread, like, the one on Muslims, you know, that was ages ago, I know, and I didn't really pay much attention, but, um, I noticed that you had quite a British accent when you, uh, when you, like, uh,
spoke there on the thread, but it was kind of broken, uh, sentences, like, I don't know, it was weird, but, uh, it, it sounded rather British to me, uh, back then, and now, you've got, you've got something still that, uh, you've got something in your English still that makes me think, okay, this guy isn't a native,
you know, and, uh, I really couldn't tell that you're Polish, and I also couldn't tell you were Slavic, either, because, uh, Slavs, uh, have got a very correct, uh, characteristic, is that a word? I don't know. Some, a very correct, um, accent that's special for them, you know? Like, okay, you can, you can immediately recognize that it's Slav-speaking, uh, you know?
But, um, yeah, um, yeah, so this is, uh, what I think.