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| furyou_gaijin Senior Member Japan Joined 6386 days ago 540 posts - 631 votes  Speaks: Latin* | Message 25 of 41 23 November 2009 at 3:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Brussels
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| maaku Senior Member United States Joined 5574 days ago 359 posts - 562 votes Speaks: English* | Message 26 of 41 23 November 2009 at 5:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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New York or Jersey accent. Man I love it! That should be official American English, taught in schools.
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| Alvinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 6234 days ago 828 posts - 832 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish | Message 27 of 41 23 November 2009 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
Is there a wide gap between both NY and Texas or the middle west of the country accents? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 28 of 41 23 November 2009 at 8:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
In response to the original question, my favorite dialects are: English: I don't actually have one favorite dialect or accent, but I like some US Southern dialects, Estuary English and Jamaican English. Afrikaans: Western Cape dialect, in particular the variety that is spoken in the Cape Flats. Spanish: Mexican Spanish. Finnish: I do not understand Savo dialect well, but it sounds hypnotic to me, so I like it more than other Finnish dialects I have heard. Swedish: Stockholm and Skånske dialects right now; though I my preferences may change as I continue to learn Swedish. Edited by mick33 on 10 May 2010 at 11:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 29 of 41 23 November 2009 at 8:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I can of course understand the Danish dialects plus the moderate forms of Quebec French, Scots and a number of other dialects (at least if spoken by people who still have teeth and who don't deliberately try to confuse me). I have however only bought complete books and dictionaries for one 'dialect': Low German (aka Plattdüütsch)*, so I suppose that is my preferred dialect.
*which based on historical linguistic principles should be seen as a language in its own right EDIT: Since writing this I have added Scots to the dialects or languages which I take seriously. Edited by Iversen on 04 December 2011 at 9:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5403 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 30 of 41 29 November 2011 at 8:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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English: I like most British dialects and accents, don't exactly know how they are called
or where they are spoken in Britain, except Scottish and Irish, although there are more of them as well I suppose. I also like Southern USA accents, especially Carolina and Georgia ones. Slovak: I like my own dialect, which is a mixture of Central Slovak dialects and a bit of Serbian. Serbian: I like the Vojvodinian or Lala (tulip) dialect as it is called. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4772 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 31 of 41 29 November 2011 at 11:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Russian: Odessa dialect, hands down - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBAYwWRwaPQ&feature=related This dialect was heavily influenced by Yiddish and Ukrainian, with some input from other languages spoken in this formerly cosmopolitan city (Greek, Bulgarian, Armenian, Romanian, French and others). In the former USSR it is mostly associated with humour, since Odessa is the hometown of many famous comedians. I think it's the perfect dialect for being snarky and sarcastic. But apart from that, I really like hearing all authentic regional dialects of Russian, since they are so hard to come by these days.
English: RP (the more stuck-up and old-fashioned, the better), Scouse, Scottish, Dixie and Kiwi. German: The southern dialects, especially Swabian and Viennese - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me2GNLi3Kq0 Japanese: Kyoto - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrz3wnXn0T4 , and Kansai in general. Edited by vonPeterhof on 29 November 2011 at 11:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| rivere123 Senior Member United States Joined 4830 days ago 129 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 32 of 41 30 November 2011 at 1:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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In English, I am a fan of New York and British (classics!), although I like all dialects a lot.
In French, Canadian is easier to understand, but I have a liking of Parisian, probably having to do with the thought that it is "the" dialect. I would really like to learn Southern French, because that seems like an interesting place. I cannot understand Creole. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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