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| MLSUSA94 Groupie United States linguisticventures19 Joined 5710 days ago 50 posts - 53 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 1 of 22 07 June 2009 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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What is your favorite dialect of all languages? For English you can range from Upper-Class London to Singaporean English; for French, Parisian to Quebecois.
My personal favorite is Hamburg German (I'm not sure what it would it be called). I just love the distinct sounds it has from other German. Edited by MLSUSA94 on 07 June 2009 at 4:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sprachefin Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5748 days ago 300 posts - 317 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish Studies: French, Turkish, Mandarin, Bulgarian, Persian, Dutch | Message 2 of 22 07 June 2009 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I always thought the way they spoke it in Bavaria was kind of cute. I visited there once, and people usually spoke to me in Hochdeutsch, but when I heard them actually speaking, it sounded so different. I also enjoy Southern U.S. English. I remember meeting a few Texans in New York once, and I loved the way they spoke. I also really liked the "Yall" term. It was funny. I even used it once in a conversation, and people gave me really funny looks.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 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 3 of 22 07 June 2009 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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If I could get suitable materials for 'nynorsk' (as opposed to 'bokmål') I would start learning it. I have a (ny)norsk-Danish dictionary, but not other sources where it can be studied in isolation from the more common - and in my opinion less Norwegian - bokmål.
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| ptrk7 Newbie United States Joined 6659 days ago 29 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 4 of 22 07 June 2009 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I like the way Puerto Rican Spanish sounds. And for English, I only like midwestern US English.
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| allikamikaze Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6180 days ago 37 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Russian | Message 5 of 22 07 June 2009 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Unfortunately, I don't think I'm familiar enough with most dialects of other language so I probably can't say. I doubt I've even heard all of the English dialects yet, but I watched an episode of Oprah when she was setting up her school in South Africa and they interviewed many girls from South Africa. I absolutely ADORED their accent :)
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| Caveben Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5667 days ago 40 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Romanian, Slovenian | Message 6 of 22 07 June 2009 at 11:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I like Quebec and Moroccan French. Both have really interesting sounds and you can pick out sometimes where other languages have had a definite influence on them.
For English I like London (but not cockney) because that is how I generally speak. Glasgow Scottish is probably my favorite English accent. I like the "white south African" accent as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6124 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 8 of 22 08 June 2009 at 1:37am | IP Logged | ||
Hamburgerisch, Hamburger Platt, Plattdeutsch, or Missingsch, depending on how much Low German is used. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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