Foreign accents....

duchess15 · Feb 16, 2007

I love german and irish accents! I learned german/english at the same time. I grew up around it and still hear/speak it. I learned high german, or normal german. If you go down to bavaria...it's a completely different dialect and the language is completely butchered. lol
There is a show that we get on a german tv show and it is based out of bavaria. They just talk so fast and the words are different that it's like learning a new language! But, I am getting better at understanding.

I love Ireland. I always have and love their accent! I would love to travel there one day, get a rental car and drive the scenic route and stay in a castle! I'd have to visit Dublin of course!
People always asked me what my middle name is because it starts with a "W" and most people think it's an old-fashioned american name. It's not. I always tell them not to bother because they won't get it and ask "what" three times. lol

gemlady · Feb 16, 2007

My corner of the state has it's own accent that sounds "southern" to northeners and "northern" to southerners.

graciecat · Feb 16, 2007

You guys who like Irish accents would love my Father then.
He was born in Dublin.
I understand him perfectly, but to this day there are times that Mason will look at me and say "What did he just say?"
I have a friend named Cassie and for years she thought my Dad didn't know her name because to her it sounded like he was saying Cathy.

laureen227 · Feb 16, 2007

Originally Posted by Sibohan2005

People look at me like "what the frell are you talking about!"

so, do you know a lot of farscape fans?

fwan · Feb 16, 2007

Originally Posted by silentNate

Ireland is not part of Great Britain

You also forgot Wales

No? whats that little part of ireland that is part of GB? or is that wales?

rosiemac · Feb 16, 2007

Originally Posted by Wickedkitten

Not meaning to be picky, but there is no such thing as a "British" accent.

Come again?!. Last time i heard myself i had one

rosiemac · Feb 16, 2007

Originally Posted by fwan

No? whats that little part of ireland that is part of GB? or is that wales?

Fran England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are all part of the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland is part of England but Southern Ireland have their own.

mooficat · Feb 16, 2007

Originally Posted by Rosiemac

Come again?!. Last time i heard myself i had one

me too...............but it is a Yorkshire accent ! do you have a Geordie accent then Susan ??

rosiemac · Feb 16, 2007

Wey aye man!!

Which to foreigners mean " I do!"

gemlady · Feb 16, 2007

I do admit a fondness for Gerard Butler's scots accent. He's from the Glasgow area.

pami · Feb 16, 2007

Originally Posted by HopeHacker

I have a lot of trouble understanding a lot of Southern American Accents. I remember once, when I was a Directory Assistance Operator, another Telephone Operator called and wanted to check if a telephone number was a coin phone. She said, "Checkin' fo a Cohen". I asked her if she was spelling it, COHEN, and she said, "No Ma-yum, I'm checkin' fo a Cohen" Still not understanding her, I repeated a few different spellings of "Cohen, and she again said, "No, Ma-yum, I'n checkin' fo a Cohen, and she was getting upset with me. I finally said, "I'm sorry, I really don't understand what you want." Exasperated, she said, I'm checkin' fo a cohen, telephone.". I said, "Oh...You mean a COIN telephone." She said, "That's right, that's what Iah said, a cohen. I didn't bother to tell her that the word COIN has 1 syllable not two.

Im just want to say that not all Southerners talk like this!

mooficat · Feb 16, 2007

Originally Posted by Rosiemac

Wey aye man!!

by eck, lass, thought ya ad !

rosiemac · Feb 16, 2007

Originally Posted by mooficat

by eck, lass, thought ya ad !

silentnate · Feb 16, 2007

Originally Posted by Rosiemac

Fran England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are all part of the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland is part of England but Southern Ireland have their own.

Oh dear- England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland make up Great Britain whilst southern Ireland (Eire) is a seperate country

Even the British get confused as you can see

rosiemac · Feb 16, 2007

Originally Posted by silentNate

Oh dear- England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland make up Great Britain whilst southern Ireland (Eire) is a seperate country

Even the British get confused as you can see

No their part of the United Kingdom, not Great Britain.

My partner is from Scotland but he's not British

jean-ji · Feb 16, 2007

My DIL is English, from Kensington, London and has a great posh accent. At the wedding we met her relatives and I was surprised at all the different accents. She has relatives from all over England and Wales, so we got to listen to quite a few. I am such an Angliophile, it was pure delight!
The accents were easier than word usage. Our usage of the word pants makes her laugh, so now I know the difference and try to remember to use the word trousers since pants are underwear. When I used the word pocketbook, they were looking for a small book.

Here's a fun site: http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml Basically British slang for Americans.

strange_wings · Feb 16, 2007

Originally Posted by Moz

That's why I love southern American accents and how some people from the south say July like "Joooo-ly". In the really rural areas of Alberta/Saskatchewan you'll hear something like that. Sometimes in my house you'll hear a bit of a drawl when we talk.

I really like Newfie accents too, along with English and Australian ones

. Of course, us Canadians don't have accents...

although sometimes I catch myself sounding distinctly... Canadian.

There is too an accent! I lived in Michigan for a year, upper peninsula, there were a lot of Canadians in the area. All of the ya's, da's, tha's, and eh's

I can't really explain the rest, but coming from a southern/midwest state to that far north I really noticed the difference. Myself, I don't really have much of the accent from here.

My parents were from northern states and the year in Michigan taught me to get rid any traces of it... or else I'd have been made fun of

Words that usually sound weird here when people say them. Fire sounds like fuur, roof = ruuf, corn = cuurn. People here generally seem to have problems pronouncing O's.

icklemiss21 · Feb 16, 2007

Susan, now I am going to read all your posts with a Northern accent

godiva · Feb 16, 2007

As far as American accents go, I have the vanilla midwestern "accent"... which is popular in TV and news shows because it is the least extreme. I have picked up a few southernisms from my babysitters when I was young (they had strong southern accents), but my father was from Minnesoooohtah, so that evened it out.

I had a boyfriend from South Africa that had a lovely accent. Really, I love any accent... it doesn't take much to make my heart melt! Because of college, I've come across quite a variety of them. I find some of the Indian accents pretty neat (not the Apu accent from The Simpsons, though...).

pipersjo · Feb 16, 2007

When we first moved to WV, I couldn't understand what anyone said! I swear, I thought that they were speaking a different language! I have a little bit of a CT and WV accent mixed--I say stuff like idear (idea), but with a little drawl. It's kind of funny and people always say something to me about it!

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