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I've always been interested in accents and how they're different and also the different accents of different countries. For example, my accent is not considered very Australian. It's considered more English. Indeed, I've even fooled English people into thinking I'm English. But when you go into the country in Australia, you hear much more sort of the Steve Irwin accent.
Like out the out back, you know, crikey mate, that sort of thing. And I can't stand that accent. But I'm interested to know what other people sound like and what the different accents are sounding like in different countries. For example, when I go to Switzerland, the accent is very different to the accent in Germany and even the language is different. And it's the same with Austria.
Whatever your opinions are, what accents do you like? What accents do you not like? Post here to let us hear what you sound like.

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Hello! Uh... That's not my normal accent. I don't know your name. I'm very sorry. I can't get Klango to spell your username. And the voice forum thing is a bit primitive at the moment, so I can't find any way of knowing how to find out what your name is, because I can't send you a private message. Because I can't find out what your... Oh, shut up. You've got the idea, I'm sure.
I'm the first person to send a reply here. This is my accent. Now, it's interesting, because I come from Yorkshire. Uh... South Yorkshire. But my accent is not very Yorkshire. Uh... A lot of people around tell me I talk posh. But I don't think that I talk posh. Anyway, you can't talk posh. Because posh is an acronym for port out starboard home. But you know what I mean.
In the manner of the aristocracy. Yes. In that, you know, as though you have a plum in your mouth. Um... Now, yes, I'm amazed you said that you're Australian. And, like, Aussie princess Liz. Now, she is Australian. She does sound Australian. You can tell she's Australian. Um... You, I don't know, listening to your accent, if I was asked to get...
Yes, I don't know. Because there seem to be all sorts of... Uh... Have you lived in a lot of different places? Because your accent seems to be, um... A combination of a lot of different things. There seems to be a lot of different things in there. I went to school in Liverpool. And to college in Hereford. And probably picked up some Liverpudlian and Shropshire. Uh... Shropshire. Herefordshire. Uh... Bits into my accent. And people tell me I talk posh.

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Gosh, that was quick. Yeah, not many of my family have what I consider to be Yorkshire accents either. I mean, you know, a Yorkshire accent would be sort of like that, you know. I mean, a couple of my uncles taught what I would consider Yorkshire. I've got 14 aunties and uncles, me. Yep, no, 13. My mum had two. Yep, my mum's one of 14 kids. So, yeah.
It's interesting about the way that different words are pronounced, isn't it? It's like, if I talk about my mum, I will say my mum. But when I talk to her, I tend to say mum. I like mum, you know. When I say it, I'll say mum, my mum, you know. It's very strange that. And when I was little, I used to call her mam. I have recordings of myself when I was very little. And in all those, you know, mam, where are you, mam? You know, I'll call mam.
I'll call you Yorkshire. I'll have to ask me mam, you know. Interesting about the accents that we find pleasant. I think, you know, I am afraid, no offence to people from Liverpool, but I do find the Liverpool accent, oh, terribly grating. And I don't actually, for some reason, I don't automatically bear the amenity or will, but I don't seem to get on very well with people who have strong Scouse accents.
Which I don't really understand. But there you go. Welsh, I love the Welsh accent, and I quite like Irish, although I find it almost incomprehensible. I like certain American accents, and then other kinds I don't, you know. Many, many countries, of course, there's more than one German accent, and more than one kind of French accent, and, you know, there you are, so many different ones. So, let's hope we'll be hearing a lot more of them.

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This is Niko, aka Nikolai, here in Klango. My accent, uh, my accent, uh, I don't know, I, uh, my accent, I'm Norwegian, so, um, yeah, I don't know a little about my accent, but, uh, I guess it's really Norwegian, but, um, it's only four people, no, five, one, two, three, four, five,
two, three, four, I know all of them, I know all, I know which planet he is, um, yes, that's all for me now.

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Hello. Firstly, Dan, my name is Griffin, but Klango says Gryffin because it's not really coping with Cornish orthography. I'm part Cornish and part Arabic. I'm half Arabic, actually. And I'm part Cornish and there's Welsh.
All sorts of things. But I've actually never spent any time overseas until 2006. I've lived all my life, and this is very strange, in Australia, in the western suburbs where people actually really do talk quite Aussie. But after 2006, I first travelled to Britain for two weeks. The year after that, I travelled to Britain twice.
You know, I've gone overseas consistently twice every year since 2007. So, and I've lived in a lot of places when I've gone over there. The last two times, I've spent in Switzerland. And for the last year or so, I've been learning German. Before that, for two years, I've been learning Cornish.
And also taking Welsh classes. So perhaps these, no, don't you go up there, have had an effect on my accent as it is now. You know, I've spent time in several different places. If you're wondering what the noise is, the cat's trying to get up on the table. No. Yes, protest.

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As for your question, yes. I met somebody once when I was in Edinburgh. And he had what I could have taken and what I did take to be an Australian accent. His accent didn't seem to me to be very Scottish or British at all. And I said to him, are you from Australia originally?
And he said to me, no, but you're not the first person to ask. And he then told me that he had spent considerable time in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. And what he said to me was, is that those were the people who were predominantly sent in the early years to Australia to be convicts.
And I lived there for a long time. So that I found very interesting. As for accents I like, I love the Welsh accent and the Cornish accent. Real Cornish though. And I also like many European accents. I love the Norwegian accent. Because I spent time in Norway. German and Swiss and Austrian.
Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic. You know, all the places that I've been to that I've found very friendly, where I've talked to a lot of people, I very much like the accent. So yeah, Australian accents that are more outback than mine, I don't seem to like so much. But yeah, I think that's all I can think of right now.

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Hello, Griffin, and everybody else. I'm Jan Brown. I live in California and have a California accent. There are all kinds of different accents in this great country, this big country, the U.S. of A., and I have a California Western accent, I think. There used to be a San Francisco accent, but it sort of died out pretty much, and I don't have it
because I never lived in San Francisco, and it really was specific to San Francisco. So that's all I have to say. Bye.

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Hello, Griffin, hello. Gosh, you've been around a bit, haven't you? I found your accent quite appealing, I have to say. Hold on, that's what I was going to say to you. I didn't realise that there was a Cornish language, but then it didn't surprise me because Cornwall at one time was its own separate kingdom, apparently. So, yes.
Went down there once for a holiday. Very nice. Very nice. I think the furthest I've ever been abroad is America. I went to Florida. I've been to Belgium, I've been to France, and I've been to Denmark. And that's about it. So I'm not terribly well travelled. Well, that's about all I wanted to say for now. I've got something I need to do, so I must get on and do it. Take care, everybody. Ta-ta.

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The Cornish language is a Celtic language. It's very different to Welsh. I can give you some examples. To greet one another in the morning, or afternoon, or evening. We'll say,
To say goodbye at night time, you say, Which is, good night. Means, I live in Australia. Louis is my name. Or, my name is Louis. We put the object first in Cornish. We have a saying in Cornish, the Cornish language,
the fellowship that I belong to. It means, speak our language, support our language. Our language is called Cairnoeic, because the name for Cornwall in Cornish is Cairnoe. Cairnoe also means Cornishman. Cairnoes is Cornish woman. Yes, if you want to hear more, I can read some passages out of my coursework.
I'm not in Cornish at the moment. I'll be taking exams in Grade 3 next year.

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Hello, this is Arthur, and, well, what kind of an accent do I have, I don't know, especially when I'm tired like now, like I am now. One will say a lot of, a mixture of a lot of things, probably, considering that English is not my first language.
So I don't know. Sometimes I change my accent, especially when I do things like, hello, my name is Talmadge Wells, and I am in Louisiana, and I hope this imitation will be better than the first one that I tried last week. And it can change.
And Dan, I will do mine of you soon. But I don't want to wake anybody up here, you know, because you have a higher voice, and I can't do it without being loud, as opposed to you, because it's your natural voice. But you will be imitated as well, my dear fellow. Don't, I mean, expect it. Just expect it. I'll do it for you on Skype first, so that I will not,
throw you into the water, so to speak. All right, folks. As far as Griffin is concerned, I've known her for quite a while, so I don't really have anything to say that will be new to her. In fact, I brought her on Klengo, I believe.

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Hey guys, um... Yeah, I'm... This has no bearing on what's over, because I don't know any Polish, but I'm English, Irish and Polish, so poor me. Having the English and the Irish in me, it's dramatic, isn't it? Anyway, that aside, I kind of think that if you travel somewhere,
or you live somewhere for a while, your accent, you take it on wherever your living's accent. Like, I don't know if this would sound any good, but, um... Say if I was to go and live for a little while in, I don't know, somewhere like South Africa, the accent would sort of...
pick up a sort of South African flavour. I too don't like the completely, you know, Steve Irwin accent, Australian... way of speaking either. I don't know, I just find it too hard to do. I don't say hard to do because, for me anyway, I have to concentrate.
I don't say hard to do because, for me anyway, I have to concentrate on it. And I really don't feel like doing that. So, you know, I listen to... I think this has a bearing too, what you are surrounded by. Like, if you're surrounded by a lot of English people, then, um... you're going to pick up English, right? If you've got a lot of...

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Yeah, so you know if you travel somewhere or you live somewhere for a little while and you're gonna pick up Their accent as well as your where you where you you come from Accent well and sometimes that can be really interesting my sister Went to England for two years and she came back and she had English Australian and a New Zealand accent because she had was around a few New Zealanders too, so
You know it kind of does and it also also it can happen when you're surrounding like when you Hear a lot of accents like English or American or Anything like that you can
A few times myself. I've spoken. I've talked said something and then oh Where'd that come from you know because it was wasn't Australian it was Something or other it must be an American or something and so hang on That might have sounded very odd to the Australian I was talking to but anyway, um, that's my little contribution and So yeah
you

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yeah just back on the way steve i wouldn't know you used to talk and you know if like i said i think in the last post if you've heard of country singers straight country singers sing some of them talk like that too it's just i find it really really hard like it's hard to to keep that up um i don't do it myself but like i say if um you go into the bush you probably find that people
talk like that and it's i don't know uh i'm sorry i don't know maybe it's me can we stop now please you know things like that i don't kind of annoys me really when people do that
i don't like doing it um is there anything wrong with that picture anyway um that's all i thought i'd come back and say for now oh see you later

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Hi everyone, this is a stupid German accent from me. It's Steffen. I am from Germany and I live in the Brandenburg area. And I think my accent is very Brandenburg and transferred to English when I speak English. And the problem is I don't have much training in English speaking.
I prefer writing in English and even this I don't do without a dictionary. But okay, just to give you an example how do I sound. I think it's a little bit like our... I'm missing the vocabulary. Let's say like our chief politician Angela Merkel.
If you heard her speaking somewhere, I think my accent is very similar to hers. Okay, bye bye.

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Well folks, judge my accent for yourself. Me, being Russian originally, taught British English at university and interested in American English accent leads to a total mixture of many things.
So that's how it is. I like Southern American accent. I just admired it after I heard Talmadge and Jean speak it.
British accent seems to me so... How do I describe it? Well, people who speak with British accent sound official. They have this kind of official tone of voice as if they have the audience with the queen or... I don't know.
So, I like American accent. That's how it goes.

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As for the countryside accent, I can tell I heard similar one to what Liz imitated once here in this thread in the UK also. Like I don't know, it is me or something like that.
I think it's because of a habit of people living in villages to speak too loud, almost shout. And I think they have to, well, to make themselves heard well, they have to speak too loud.
They have to articulate the vowels in different way. If they shouted maybe, it wouldn't be as heard, as clearly heard as maybe. You see, because the sound seems to be more open and something like that. So I think maybe it's because of that, but that's my opinion then again.
Stefan, I don't know about your German accent, is it stupid or not, but if it's stupid or not, but there's something charming in your voice itself, you know.

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Hello Stefan! I am from Louisiana and I come from Australia.
Which I probably should try and stop doing. When I write German, however, it comes to me much quicker. So I guess it's the same thing. But yeah, your English is perfectly fine. When I was in Germany, I found that a lot of people were embarrassed to speak English.
I was a native speaker. So I found it very difficult. So I had to use German instead. If I needed directions or anything like that. Rather than them using English. It was very interesting for me. Because, you know, first time using German so much. Listen to me talk business.

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12 o'clock
to eleven I went to a primary school in Sheffield but my accent there never really changed because everybody came from everywhere they were all visually impaired so they came from all around the country then when I was eleven I moved up to secondary school still in Sheffield but it was a mainstream school so there were a lot more local people so my accent went very Sheffield for a while I didn't live there all the time though I stayed there five days a week and in the meantime I lived in Lincolnshire my home was in Lincolnshire
which it still is as a matter of fact and my mum comes from the sort of North Lincolnshire area and my dad is actually Scottish and my mum's half Scottish so I can I can put on a really good Glasgow accent actually when I feel like it but yeah and I'm sure there were plenty other things I was going to say but my mind has now gone as it quite often does so I'll stop for now

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Now, as Arthur here, as I keep saying, I think my own accent is also a mixture of a lot of things. Although, as opposed to Lynn, my, I mean, English is by no means my first language. And so, at first, I mean, believe it or not, the Americans will be surprised when I say that.
And so, years ago, I had quite an American accent, because I was going to church with people from America, and it's all I heard. It's all I heard. And then, I got into the Sherlock Holmes stories, all the books read by British readers from this library. I get books from Caliber, Lynn.
So, I slowly but surely developed a bit of a British accent. It's not quite British. When I listen to myself, I can, I don't know what to call my accent, to be honest. It's definitely, it is definitely not the French accent that a lot of people would expect when they hear French people speaking.
You know what I'm talking about. I just did it on purpose. I would hate to speak English like that, but that's how they do. So, let's go on with it. It will be very nice to hear Indian people talking on this thread, and see if maybe they can produce the South Indian accent, of course, from

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A while ago I stopped analyzing my accent. I think I ain't gonna spend my life on it, on doing this. I can get rid of my Russian accent and that's a part of me. I could have gotten rid of it in case I'd gone to the States some years ago, 10 or 15 years ago, just like Dmitry.
He speaks Russian with the English accent already. I heard him in voice forums. He spent lots of time among English speakers and what he heard was just English speech.
That's not the point. In that conference there was one girl that after hearing me say hello, she instead of greeting me, she says, you have a terrible accent. Actually it was, you have a terrible accent.
I don't know what about my accent, but I couldn't quite understand what she said. And that instead of greeting. So there are weird people around us, I'm afraid.

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Man, how rude can you get? I mean, how can anybody have a quote-unquote terrible accent? I mean, I personally, Stacey, I think you've got a nice accent. But when it comes down to having a nice accent or a bad accent or whatever, I think that's all down to personal opinion. You know, there are certain accents I love and there are certain accents I really don't like, but I would never ever say to somebody that you've got a terrible accent.
That's just rude. You should have got a belt in the gob if you'd been near me. One thing I'd like to try is to hear some people say things in different languages to see how their accents differ. For example, I've got three different friends from Sweden who all come from different parts of the country. And I've mentioned this to them a few times, but we've never actually acted upon it yet.
But to hear all three say the same sentence or whatever in Swedish to see if I can hear the difference in their accents. When they talk in English, they all three have different accents. When they talk in Swedish, I can't hear the different accents because I don't know the language well enough to pick up the accents, you know, without having something to compare. That might be something to try on this thread, especially with people who speak different languages.
Even if it's just two people who speak the same language other than English, to say something similar or the same and see if we can spot the differences in the accent. That's just how daft about accents and languages I am. It may come to something. It may come to nothing. We'll see.

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Yeah, hi, um actually I've listened to me recording in Russian and I was actually surprised because usually that's how my friends talk and they've been in the States for Quite a while since there were seven or three So they hardly speak Russian. So they are very much American accented me
I kind of broke myself because I'm I'm into keeping my roots and ethnicity. So I I read, you know, I read Russian stuff as As much as a you know want to and stuff and I also had three years of Russian in the States So in a way I I kind of maintained the Russian accent because true Americans they
Which is kind of annoying they're like, oh you have a Russian slash New York and Accent and I'm like Well, do you care? How I speak or what I have to say? Because yeah, like once or twice. It's okay to mention but like all the time Because I've been to Ohio and that was my terrible experience and oh my god, people are so comfortable
conscientious of How come on and plus if I were to start how they talk everything like a coffee office Imagination like oh my god and So what I you know, I have the New York in so I would say like dog office coffee New York, you know like everything with oh, I mean if everybody

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Yeah, so, as I was saying, it's like, if people would speak the same way, just imagine how boring things would be. I mean, it's like, the reason why this voice forum is, you know, voice forum in general is so good is like, you can have people from all over the world, and even though they speak English, they have so many dialects.
And, for instance, I would never known that South Africa has its own English, and they also have a dialect, which is not, you know, due to their, oh my god, mispronunciation, and like, oh my god, I've got that so many times, and that's just wrong.
So, I would have people from France visiting to America, and they're like, oh, I'm sorry, and they go, oh, you know, I have a bad English, and I'm like, that's okay, you know, because she was helping me get to the buses and stuff, you know, that's what matters and stuff, and, yeah. So, that's it. Thanks.

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Well, well, well. Another blossoming thread. Lots of interesting accents here. And here's another one for you. If Nick will do us the honour of giving us a speech. He's got a lovely accent as my friend. Well, accents. Unless you know that here by my voice, what you hear is what you get. However, I can do a few other British accents. Maybe a few American ones as well.
But since my vocabulary of accents is wide, I'm going to limit it to a few accents. For starters, we're going to do the accent that people will speak in the Birmingham and surrounding areas. How do you do, mate? I'm from Birmingham, you know. The Welsh. Oh, it is lovely to see you in lovely ways. Look here. The Scots. Oh, hi.
I love the Scots. And the Irish. Top of the morning to you. Now, this is the accent that people tend to talk in the Bronx. You know something? I don't like the way you talk. Where have you got that one from? Yeah, hang on. You know, let me tell you one more thing I don't like. You. Not because of where you come from. I just don't like you. Oh, dear. And you know something? You're free now to like me either.
As long as you do it for the right reasons. And if you don't like it, you can kiss my ass. Nick. You terribly rude person. I can do the accent of the south. Of the far south of America. Although not too good, I venture to add. No. Perhaps not. No mockery intended, by the way. We do not mean to make fun of any individual who has this accent. We just, you know. A quick question for anybody. Is