Do you speak with a heavy accent?

[yaroslav]

Originally posted by Zcylen
I dont have that problem in english and either with japanese
but in my own language (spanish) I do have the "regios" accent which sound to loud.

if you say "oh well, yes"
the correct way is : Ah, pues si
you say here :aaaaaah, Pposs si

or shorting the words like

lado = la'o
pelado = pela'o

hey, thats like the varmsk...how was it?

Curious. I'm also a native Spanish speaker. I have not an accent or maybe a little "Andaluz" accent, but my mother is not Spanish, so I had less accent that the people that live near me. The "Andaluz" accent shorts the word lado, pelado like you say, and also

pos si

instead

pues si

is very, very common in Andalucia. I don't know the 'Regios' accent (Sorry for asking it, but Where it is that place?), but it seems like "Andaluz"

 

[funxus]

I'm being mocked for my accent at school, and it only lies an hour from where I live. A group of Brazilians apparently could here the difference between me talking and people from Gothenburg, so it's probably stronger than I think it is.
More people on TV have other accents than "reich-swedish" nowadays, for example there's a weather girl on one of the more common channels that is from Norway, speaking a mix of Norwegian and Swedish. The dialect in Stockholm always reminds me of gays, the feminist type, I don't know if a lot of gays are from Stockholm or if their dialect is feminine though.
Lord_Vetinari, the artificial swedish you're talking about is probably the one found in old movies and tv-shows, i.e. 50's and backwards.

 

[boann]

i have a thick southern accent.
im teased about it all the time here in colorado
ive been here almost 20 years
but you can't take the southern out of a southern girl

 

[bobgote]

Originally posted by ainwood


I'm sure they won't. They may insult the entire New Zealand race, but you're safe at least ....

too true but i'll tell you one thing that may please you, many women i've talked to have said that the new zealand accent is their favourite, so visit Australia, and you may be in luck

Originally posted by gael
Same people, different culture.
Kinda pisses ya of in a good humoured sort of way; although i am convinced that Kiwis, for no apparent reason, secrectly wish the downfall of Australia.

SECRETLY??? Since when??? if so, they're not very good at keeping secrets

 

[Lord_Vetinari]

Lord_Vetinari, the artificial swedish you're talking about is probably the one found in old movies and tv-shows, i.e. 50's and backwards.

No no no

No one in who is not on heavy drugs would ever speak like that again, not on television, not anywhere. I'm talking about the normal "rikssvenska," that I think sounds too artificial for me.

More people on TV have other accents than "reich-swedish" nowadays, for example there's a weather girl on one of the more common channels that is from Norway, speaking a mix of Norwegian and Swedish.

Yep, and I think that's a good thing. Only ten years ago this would probably never have been possible. Long live the accents!

How do you guys speak in Trollhättan btw? Altough I have driven through your city numerous times (damn those 200 traffic lights ), I don't think I have ever stopped there.

 

[funxus]

How do you guys speak in Trollhättan btw? Altough I have driven through your city numerous times (damn those 200 traffic lights ), I don't think I have ever stopped there.

I'm not sure, since I don't think I have a different accent
Nowadays, in addition to those 200 traffic lights, we have about 200 roundabouts too. I'm becoming an expert on them

 

[Oruc]

i have a Mackem accent most people think its a geordie accent
except when i was in kent they thought it was galic whatever that is

 

[sysyphus]

Originally posted by emu
i have a Mackem accent most people think its a geordie accent
except when i was in kent they thought it was galic whatever that is

How can people not diffferentiate Sunderland and Newcastle accents? The difference is easy, it's actually possible to understand what a Mackem is saying.

 

[Oruc]

When where you last in Sunderland sysyphus?

 

[sysyphus]

Originally posted by emu
When where you last in Sunderland sysyphus?

Well, actually, never been there. Do intend to visit eventually.

I am however, a stauch supporter of the Black Cats and am quite familliar with many Sunderland expats living here when I go to watch games at the pubs (which unfortuately get invaded by Geordie hordes during derby matches).

 

[CornMaster]

Originally posted by sysyphus
Other than Newfoundlanders, most english Canadians don't have a very distictive accent, though I have had people from other English speaking countries comment on some of the nuances in the way we speak.

Yes..Newfoundlanders do have accents.

There are times I can't understand my own father. And his father??? Forget it.

My mother is American, and I didn't socialize as a child....so I never picked up an accent or a dialict of Newfoundland.

I tell people where I'm from and they say I don't sound it. I guess it's a complement.

 

[gerryandersson]

Yes, skånska (suthern part of sweden).
Most sweds probobly don't know what a "rullebör" is.

funxus, we don't have that menny roundabouts where i live outside Helsingborg, but we have gotten alot of new ones and people (by accident or on purpus) try to drive over them, even tho some have lage hills in the middel.

 

[Smaasnekje]

Check my net-name Smaasnekje (Two a's become å in Norwegian alphabet)

Småsnekje is a word, who is only used in this little village, in this little place where I live, and means a cold draft, or that it is a bit cold (snekje is cold BTW). I actually speak more dialect now than i did before.

In standard norwegian I (as in me) are "Jeg", where I live its just plain "i".

 

[Finvola]

Well, I used to have a Northeast American accent. I'm from Massachusetts, but I'm from the western part of the state so I don't have the Bostonian accent. I spent a year and a half in Scotland and I lived with an Irish b/f who came from Dublin. My accent tended to drift towards his Irish one but I've also picked up a hint of a Glasgow accent as well. My mother tells me that the pitch of my voice goes up when I ask a question now, whereas it didn't before I lived there. I quite like my accent, and I hope that I don't revert to a plain, old boring Massachusetts accent in a few months time. There are quite a few people in my area who have come from Northern Ireland so perhaps that won't happen. I know their accents are completely different from Southern Irish and Scottish accents, but they're the next best thing

 

[Cimbri]

gerryandersson: Yes, skånska (suthern part of sweden).
Most sweds probobly don't know what a "rullebör" is.

Heh, heh, we call it a "Trillebör" in Denmark.
I’ve learnt all my Swedish from innumerable tourists in Copenhagen.

Cimbri

 

[Bifrost]

I have never been told anything about my accent. I've been made to speak English since I was 4 years old, so I think it's not too heavy.