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Foreign accents in your native language?
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Serpent
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Message 49 of 51

26 October 2013 at 8:54pm | IP Logged

bela_lugosi wrote:

Finnish spoken with the typical Italian accent sounds rather funny to me. :) Accents such as the American one - or the French accent - are the most irritating because there often seems to be very little if any effort to mimic the pronunciation of the target language and because they are the most difficult to understand.

Thiiis!
Maybe even for both, though Leopejo is the only example that's anywhere near that. at least right after a stay in Italy :D
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MarlonX19
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30 October 2013 at 4:09am | IP Logged

Girls, who are native speakers of french, speaking Portuguese with THAT accet are very sexy! ;) On the other hand, I feel like punching out when it's a boy.
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Henkkles
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30 October 2013 at 8:33am | IP Logged

MarlonX19 wrote:

Girls, who are native speakers of french, speaking Portuguese with THAT accet are very sexy! ;) On the other hand, I feel like punching out when it's a boy.

.........................................wow.

Working in a hospital I was exposed to a myriad of different Finnish accents. I liked all of the accents I could understand, but some didn't sound so pleasant to me as others did. Mostly it was a case of the individual and not the native language though, so I'll just recount the instances I found funniest. Once there was a Swedish woman who had been living in Finland (not a Finland-Swede) and she had the tiniest hint of singsong in her Finnish which was pronunciation wise perfect and I thought it sounded really pleasant. Then there was this elder British man who had lived in Finland for ages and he sounded like Sean Connery speaking Finnish, which was at least interesting to listen to.

The Russian and Estonian accents bother me sometimes because (depending on the speaker), they employ palatalization which sounds really curious to me (even though we have some dialects that have word final palatalization so go figure).

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