How do you pronounce your English?

[happy_Alex]

It's been a while since I came up with a useful thread, I've been reading alot I guess. Anyhoo I hope this is of intrest...

What's your English like? This is a question for both native and non native speakers, as I once knew a Japanese girl who learnt it with an american accent. (does it make a difference either way?)

this page from wiki might be helpful, I'm reading up about cockney's in London (or should I say Laaandun). I probably speak Estury English a combination of cockney and Received Pronunciation (which I pronunce pronunce though some pronunce pronounce). However, I don't talk in mockney (mock and cockney, a ghastly falsetto cockney/working class accent because I am a Londoner anyway...


This is a really good website, giving examples from each part of the UK. Is there a similar site for other English speaking countries, I wonder?


http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html

 

[Bluemofia]

I'm a Chinese person, and people say I speak with a slight British accent. Even though I was born in Arizona, lived there for 3-4 years, moved to Connecticut, lived there for a year, then moved to Illinois and has been here for 12 years.

 

[Truronian]

My friend in Oxford say I have a Westcountry accent, my friends in Cornwall say I have a posh accent. I assume this means I'm somewhere between the two.

 

[pboily]

Eastern Ontario English, apparently.

But mostly, I speak French.

 

[Mirc]

I have no idea.

 

[Oruc]

Mackem accent

 

[skadistic]

East coast-mid atlantic- chesapeake- western shore- suburban- born and breed redneck.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I'm from Southern Maryland, so I speak a mix of Baltimorese and Southern American English.

 

[classical_hero]

I'm a Chinese person, and people say I speak with a slight British accent. Even though I was born in Arizona, lived there for 3-4 years, moved to Connecticut, lived there for a year, then moved to Illinois and has been here for 12 years.

I thought that you live in Chicago and thus would have an accent like tha bears.

 

[History_Buff]

Prairie English I assume, though I do like lapsing into a very fake Irish leprechauny accent. I like my English one too, but it tends to degrade into Australian when I drink

 

[Abaddon]

University Mangle.. with a few yorkshire words slipping in.

 

[Truronian]

University Mangle.. with a few yorkshire words slipping in.

Do you say chav or charv?

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[classical_hero]

I speak with a slight French tinge, and the girls seem to go wild over it.

 

[Catharsis]

Received Pronunciation for the win.

 

[Taliesin]

Somewhere between Central Ontario and RP; when I get slangy I tend either toward a stronger Ontario or a bit of east London.

 

[Gilder]

British accent.

 

[aneeshm]

I'm a non-native speaker.

I can change between three accents (Indian (my natural mode of speech - I consider this the best one, because it is linguistically the purest), British, and American) at will.

I can also pick up accents within a few days of exposure to them.

 

[Abaddon]

Do you say chav or charv?

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Chav.. or yorkshire= Townie

 

[Truronian]

Chav.. or yorkshire= Townie

Its townie down here aswell... Many an argument I've had with my geordie friend over that one.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Prairie English I assume, though I do like lapsing into a very fake Irish leprechauny accent. I like my English one too, but it tends to degrade into Australian when I drink

I also have the problem. It seems that not only do I write and speak in a different manner when I'm at school, but my accent changes, too.

I can also pick up accents within a few days of exposure to them.

I'm even worse, I pick up accents within seconds of engaging in conversation with them. Completely unintentional. For example, I work in a resturaunt. Recently, a British man ( there are quite a few RN people around because of the USN base nearby) for a bite to eat, and I was the host, so I took him to a table. Between the door and the table, I had adopted his exact accent and dialect. it's frustrating, because I'm afraid that someone will pick up on it and think that I'm mocking them, when it's really completely unintentional, I don't realize that I'm doing it.