WANNABEAFREAK Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong cantonese.hk Joined 6827 days ago 144 posts - 185 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, Cantonese Studies: French
| Message 1 of 16 08 March 2010 at 3:08pm | IP Logged |
No body really has answered my question on another forum I had asked.
I would like to know if you can tell which country I come from? In the video I speak English, Cantonese and French.
Can please you let me know if you can tell where I come from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5UBMnSHs38
What accent do I have? Do I have native English?
Thanks.
Edited by WANNABEAFREAK on 08 March 2010 at 3:14pm
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Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5735 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin
| Message 2 of 16 08 March 2010 at 3:23pm | IP Logged |
WANNABEAFREAK wrote:
No body really has answered my question on another forum I had asked.
I would like to know if you can tell which country I come from? In the video I speak English, Cantonese and French.
Can please you let me know if you can tell where I come from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5UBMnSHs38
What accent do I have? Do I have native English?
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Maybe nobody answers you, because so many people read your blog, and therefore know where you're from ;P
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6439 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 3 of 16 08 March 2010 at 4:07pm | IP Logged |
I can't really tell much from the video. You may or may not be a native English speaker; I'm bad at judging that when people have or aim for non-North-American accents. I have no comment on the Cantonese. Your French doesn't sound native, but I don't have a good enough mental model of the sound of the language to say much beyond that.
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laban Triglot Groupie Israel Joined 5822 days ago 87 posts - 96 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English, Italian Studies: Norwegian, German
| Message 4 of 16 08 March 2010 at 4:54pm | IP Logged |
just by the movement of your lips it seems, to me, like you neither English nor french, though your accents sound pretty good.
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kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5553 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish
| Message 5 of 16 08 March 2010 at 5:02pm | IP Logged |
I only watched a few minutes of the video, but from what I heard, you don't have a foreign accent when speaking English at all. When I heard your pronunciation of the word "now" I would place you as an Australian.
The quality of the video was kinda bad though, so something might not have gone through.
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 6 of 16 08 March 2010 at 5:40pm | IP Logged |
You used very little French in the video, but it appears to be the one that needs the most work out of the three you spoke.
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6439 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 7 of 16 08 March 2010 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
Arekkusu wrote:
You used very little French in the video, but it appears to be the one that needs the most work out of the three you spoke. |
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Given that he said he's been only studying it for a month, that's quite understandable.
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 8 of 16 08 March 2010 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
Mea culpa.
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