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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4453 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes  Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 25 of 51 10 October 2013 at 4:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Serbian accent.
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| Fuenf_Katzen Diglot Senior Member United States notjustajd.wordpress Joined 4154 days ago 337 posts - 476 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Polish, Ukrainian, Afrikaans | Message 26 of 51 10 October 2013 at 4:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Lithuanian, although I've only heard one person with that accent. I went to eat at a restaurant and spent the whole time trying to figure out where the waitress was from--the accent sounded slightly Eastern European, but there was something noticeably different about it. Eventually I just broke down and asked her where she was from, and apparently she was from Lithuania. It was a really nice sounding accent!
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| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 3884 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 27 of 51 10 October 2013 at 4:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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What is even a Scottish (or British, or Australian, or American etc.)?
Most people I've met in real life who claim to have a thing for Scottish accents have been thinking of some sanitised version of Mel Gibson putting on a fake accent... and they're definitely not thinking of anything on the other end of the Scots spectrum. I'm not saying that's what people here are all thinking of, but I've always found it peculiar to hear so many people in general say that they loooove Scottish accents, but their only exposure is usually Hollywood (Scottish accent sanitised for Americans, or Americans putting on what they think sounds Scottish). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4492 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 28 of 51 10 October 2013 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've encountered plenty Scots before. I particularly like variants where the roll of the
r is stronger (not the watered-down thing or the posh Edinburgh variant). Glaswegian patter can be a little too broad though ;) Edited by tarvos on 10 October 2013 at 4:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 3884 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 29 of 51 10 October 2013 at 6:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I never said you hadn't. I explicitly spoke about people I've met in real life, and made a point of not including forumites. I expect people on a language forum to know a little more about it than the general public.
Nonetheless, I still find it rather confusing to say that one finds "Scottish", "English", "Australian", "American" etc. accents sexy (in English) without specifying, unless of course one means to say that one finds them all sexy. ;) There's a great variation in a way that there isn't quite with a foreign accent. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 5890 days ago 707 posts - 1219 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 30 of 51 10 October 2013 at 6:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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In my part of Scotland (North-East), the local dialect is Doric. Listen to this Poem in Doric to get the sound.
A small selection of Doric words: Aabody .... everbody Aathing .... everything Aye .... yes Bairn .... baby or young child Bleeter .... to talk aimlessly Bosie .... cuddle or hug Braw .... good, great Caul .... cold Deid .... dead Dinna .... don't Dreich .... cold, wet and windy Drookit .... drenched, soaking Fin .... when Fit Like .... hello, how are you? Fitya dee'in? .... what are you doing? Hale .... whole Heid .... head Ken .... know Loon .... boy Lugs .... ears Nae .... no Neep .... turnip Quine .... girl Richt .... right Scunnered .... fed Up Scutter .... delay Spikin .... speaking Stooshie .... fuss Wifie .... woman When I first moved here 20 years ago, I hardly understood a word. Now it's as familiar and comforting as "a cuppie an a funcy piece" (tea and fancy cake or bread and jam). Edited by Mooby on 10 October 2013 at 6:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5513 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 31 of 51 10 October 2013 at 8:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Polish, I find Eastern Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian) accents very pleasant. They make Polish more soft and melodic, contrary to what they sound in English for example, when they might sound hard and harsh.
Italian accent is also pretty nice sounding. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| I'm With Stupid Senior Member Vietnam Joined 3958 days ago 165 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Vietnamese | Message 32 of 51 11 October 2013 at 8:00am | IP Logged | ||
Nah, I've definitely had this experience. The problem you have in Vietnam is that half of the people you speak to will be so expecting you to speak English that when you speak Vietnamese, they're trying to work out what you said in English. The more you experience foreign accents in your language, the better you get at understanding them. It's not about tolerance and patience, simply skill in listening to different accents. Someone told me a story about a taxi driver who couldn't understand him when he asked to go to the airport. Now obviously if you pronounce something wrong in Vietnamese, if means a different word entirely. But someone who is skilled in listening to foreign accents would be able to look at the context, see the person with a suitcase, and deduce that they're probably not saying "I want to go to calculus now." My parents came to visit me earlier this year, and they had a much harder time than me understanding the locals when they were speaking English, but they got better the longer they stayed. It doesn't even have to be a foreign accent. I have an American friend who couldn't watch Father Ted without subtitles because he couldn't understand the Irish accents. You can have all the will in the world, but if you've never heard your language pronounced by a foreigner before (or even someone from a different part of the country) then you're going to have a hard time of it. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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