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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5062 days ago 2237 posts - 6731 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 9 of 25 06 December 2011 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not touching this one with a ten foot pole! Been there, done that.
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| NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4759 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 10 of 25 07 December 2011 at 12:42am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think its just foreign accents either - some of the accents here in the UK are
hilarious (if your not from the place that is!). Its all part of the fun of learning languages though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4851 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 11 of 25 07 December 2011 at 12:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Here's another funny accent video:
Babushkas singing Britney Spears Edited by espejismo on 07 December 2011 at 12:56am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6397 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 12 of 25 07 December 2011 at 1:41am | IP Logged | ||
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5134 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 13 of 25 07 December 2011 at 8:01am | IP Logged | ||
I understood almost everything, and I love his accent. I would have given Russia the football championship on the spot after this performance! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6420 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 14 of 25 07 December 2011 at 8:29am | IP Logged | ||
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When I moved to Norway, I didn't have the opportunity to return to the US for the first nine years. I'm originally from South Jersey, a place not known for having a beautiful accent, but I never had that accent myself. In my nine years in Norway, I'd almost never heard it because I rarely spoke to Americans except my parents, on the phone, and they don't have that accent either. (There is also a lot of American TV here, but the people are mostly not from South Jersey.) Anyway, after nine years, I got on a plane to Philadelphia and there were all these people speaking English all around me, but it sounded so funny. I couldn't believe the ridiculous noises coming out of them, and I sat there wondering where in the world they came from that they spoke so strangely. (I should have realized, huh?) Finally I got back to South Jersey -- and everybody talked like that. I could hardly keep a straight face at first, but I soon got used to it again, and now I hardly notice.
Another thing is my Norwegian dialect. At this point, I speak with a very light trøndersk (central Norway) dialect. When I first started the job I have now, I had to go to the Oslo office a lot for courses. The people from Oslo thought it was hilarious to hear an American speaking trøndersk. (It's not usually considered a very sophisticated dialect. We're just a bunch of hillbilly farmers to them, I think.) Anyway, as mentioned, I currently speak a very light trøndersk as I've been living for some years now in Innherred. But I used to live in Namdal, further north in Trøndelag, and I spoke a slightly broken version of that dialect, which is even more "hillbillyish". I can just imagine the Oslo folk snorting their coffee out their noses if I'd shown up speaking like that. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4776 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 15 of 25 07 December 2011 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think accents make things so much more interesting, particularly if one has been speaking the same language
(say, English) for a particularly long time. I actively study accents, and basically live for them. Anyone with an accent instantly gets a +1 awesome in my book--I guess I just find them adorable. Of course, I shudder to think what my own accent in different languages sounds like...probably ridiculous. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5181 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 16 of 25 07 December 2011 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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I enjoy all accents, including laughing about them!
For instance, how can you not both laugh and be endeared by this Japanese girl everytime she says "SpidAAman"? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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