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Solfrid Cristin
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12 January 2012 at 9:01am | IP Logged

Camundonguinho wrote:

Solfrid Cristin wrote:

Arekkusu wrote:

Some people have said on this forum that you can't -- or are unlikely to? -- sound native unless you sound like you come from a specific region. That might be true to a degree -- you can't sound both American and British -- but I'd be careful not to overuse that principle.

After all, many people travel to different places throughout their lives and continue to sound native. Surely, sounding native has more to do with consistency and phonetic integrity than the listener being able to pinpoint where a particular set of phonemes belongs to.

I agree. I am a native Norwegian, but I do not speak the dialect of any particular place in Norway. I just speak a neutral, but conservative Norwegian which can be found mostly in the Eastern Region. It does not make me any less a native.

Is it okay for me to pronounce OSLO as OOSHLOO (sorry for using English respelling here)? :)

Yep. I usually do myself unless I am speaking with a little old lady from the West of Oslo :-)
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Most Norwegians pronounce Oslo that way.
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14 January 2012 at 10:29pm | IP Logged

Solfrid Cristin wrote:

Arekkusu wrote:

Some people have said on this forum that you can't -- or are
unlikely to? -- sound native unless you sound like you come from a specific region. That might be true to a
degree -- you can't sound both American and British -- but I'd be careful not to overuse that principle.

After all, many people travel to different places throughout their lives and continue to sound native. Surely,
sounding native has more to do with consistency and phonetic integrity than the listener being able to pinpoint
where a particular set of phonemes belongs to.

I agree. I am a native Norwegian, but I do not speak the dialect of any particular place in Norway. I just speak a
neutral, but conservative Norwegian which can be found mostly in the Eastern Region. It does not make me any
less a native.

Although "standard østlandsk" is not the dialect of any particular place, it does make you sound like you come
from a particular region. A better example would be someone like Anne Holt, who speaks an unstable mixture of
østlandsk (South Eastern Norwegian) and nordnorsk (Northern Norwegian), having grown up in both Lillestrøm
and Tromsø. Although people may disagree whether she sounds more like someone from the North or more like
someone from the South, nobody would doubt she's a native speaker.

Edited by tractor on 15 January 2012 at 8:36am

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