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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 1 of 41 11 November 2009 at 6:09am | IP Logged | ||
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What are your favorite dialects, for English or for any other language you speak/study, and why?
For English, I think my favorite dialect is Australian. I enjoy the vowel sounds, and the fact that they seem to be undergoing something similar to what happened during the Great Vowel Shift. In Spanish, I like listening to an Argentine accent, but I can't say exactly why. What about you? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Halie Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6110 days ago 80 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 2 of 41 11 November 2009 at 8:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I love Australian, too. And I'm not sure if this is a dialect, per say, but I love hearing the Swiss speak English. I don't mean to offend by this comment, but they sound so... cute. I also like certain American Southern accents. Like a very refined, Scarlett O'Hara accent. Other ones, not so much...
In Spanish, I like a very Spanish Spanish. My ear is not trained enough to know of different accents within Spain, but if you point out, Spain v. Mexico dialect, I prefer Spain. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Eumaeus Groupie Australia Joined 5604 days ago 75 posts - 134 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 3 of 41 11 November 2009 at 9:23am | IP Logged | ||
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You like Australian? I've always hated my dumb aussie accent. It has softened a lot over the years because I travelled a lot in my late teens and twenties. Sometimes I get mistaken for a Kiwi and only a few days ago a Glaswegian mistook me for a Londoner. But Struth!, when I was a kid I sounded like the flamin' crocodile hunter, crikey!
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| kyknos Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5496 days ago 103 posts - 140 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, English Studies: German, Spanish | Message 4 of 41 11 November 2009 at 10:15am | IP Logged | ||
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I loved the presumably Australian accent of my former coworker. But I am not sure whether it was authentic, he is a child of Hungarian Jews born in Eastern Germany, spent his childhood in Australia, then went to Israel, Africa, USA, Ukraine and finally ended here, with an impresive collection of four passports from four different countries :)
Regarding the Czech language, I love the accent of people of Olomouc region. Especially if spoken by pretty girls. Edited by kyknos on 11 November 2009 at 10:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Vinbelgium Bilingual Tetraglot Groupie Belgium Joined 5824 days ago 61 posts - 73 votes Speaks: Dutch*, Flemish*, English, French Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 5 of 41 11 November 2009 at 10:22am | IP Logged | ||
I prefer the Spanish from Spain too. Regarding French, I like the Parisian accent. For Dutch, I like the Flemish accent more - probably because I'm from Flanders myself. And considering German, I don't like the Hochdeutsch. I prefer the accent/dialect from Bayern! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5904 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 6 of 41 11 November 2009 at 10:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Australian hurts my ears...
I like the South-African English though ^_^ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 7 of 41 11 November 2009 at 11:54am | IP Logged | ||
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South African accents are very attractive... Or maybe it's just the tall, tanned rugby player image that a lot of these guys have got going for them... Anyway I prefer it over Australian.
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| pookiebear79 Groupie United States Joined 6030 days ago 76 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Swedish, Italian | Message 8 of 41 11 November 2009 at 2:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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I guess I'm a little weird, but my 2 favorite varieties of native spoken English are ones I've noticed a lot of people (primarily Brits themselves) seem to make fun of.
I love the sound of English spoken by Welsh people and I love the way most people from Northern England sound as well. (Now, I obviously don't have a language map with recordings of each accent/dialect within those areas, so I had to use those somewhat general categories. I am aware there there is not one single Welsh accent or one single Northern English accent, but just that generally I enjoy the sound of English spoken by people of those areas.) An example of what I mean by a nice sounding Northern Accent would be antiques dealer Paul Hayes, or Christopher Eccleston, both of whom are from Lancashire (I think.) Accents like theirs make me go weak. Like I said, I've noticed English people before making jokes about Northerners and the way they talk, but either of those guys (or any person who sounds similar) could read me the phone book and I'd pay attention. And as for Welsh people (speaking English, I mean, not Welsh) I was listening to a Welsh couple on TV yelling at each other and it still sounded nice, LOL. I can't recall where they were from (it wasn't Cardiff,) but I like all of the ones I've heard. I know most people seem to like the sound of their own country's language/dialects, but in general I'm not in love with most American dialects or accents. We speak a pretty neutral American English here, and I'm more used to hearing the accents of non native speakers of English than american dialects, so the foreign accents sound "normal"to me, while hearing strong accents from elsewhere in the US (usually on TV,) is not exactly a feast for my ears, because it sounds more foreign than the real foreign English. Like I said, I'm a bit backwards. ;) I love the sound of Dutch and Swedish people speaking English as well. (The ones I've known, anyway.) And the Romanian immigrants I worked with when I was younger sounded quite nice in English too. I can't really comment on other languages than English, since I'm not familiar enough with various dialects in other languages. (mainly because learning materials and radio broadcasts and such are often in the supposedly neutral "standard" variant of the language, even if it's only really standard in education and broadcasting.) Also there are some cases where an individual speaker sounds really good, even if their accent/dialect is generally like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. There are certain variants of English from other Anglophone countries that normally make me cringe, but then I'll hear someone speaking that dialect who actually sounds very nice. So even my least faves sometimes can sound lovely. It just depends, really. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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