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Foreign accents in your native language? | ||
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5454 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 9 of 51 09 October 2013 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
I agree. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 10 of 51 09 October 2013 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
Now that must be a first :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4716 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 11 of 51 09 October 2013 at 9:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'd say any accent, when spoken by a pretty girl...
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| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5052 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 12 of 51 10 October 2013 at 4:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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A Ukrainian accent can sometimes make Russian sound more pleasant. I really like the "шо" instead of
"што," though I'm not a fan of the fricative Г. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 13 of 51 10 October 2013 at 7:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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German and Spanish.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5925 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 14 of 51 10 October 2013 at 8:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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As a general rule I like any accent as long as I can understand the person speaking to me.
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| caam_imt Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4863 days ago 232 posts - 357 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, Finnish Studies: German, Swedish | Message 15 of 51 10 October 2013 at 10:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have always wondered, why so many people think the French accent is sexy? I seem to be
part of a very small minority that thinks a French accent is as ok as others. I usually find foreign accents in Spanish amusing, but I have never laughed at anybody. There's something that makes me smile when hearing familiar words pronounced differently. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4560 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish | Message 16 of 51 10 October 2013 at 11:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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It's not very often that I hear accented Finnish in my daily life. The most pleasant ones I've come across are probably Japanese and Chinese, though my recollections of the latter are a bit shaky. They both have this soft quality to them and no "annoying" sounds that stick out. And a relatively flat intonation, which fits together nicely with Finnish.
Overall, I'd say there are only few "well defined" foreign accents that most Finns would recognize reliably. Russian and Estonian, for sure, and maybe American, but not many others. Edited by sans-serif on 10 October 2013 at 12:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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