Ahmed Bin S wrote:I am assuming there is no such thing as a "German accent", and that people in different parts of Germany speak German in different accents.
Same for French - I am assuming people in France and Belgium speak French in different accents.
but here's the thing - when it comes to English, all Americans sound the same to me! And not just Americans, but Canadians and Americans sound the same to me too! I have a very good friend who is Canadian, and she doesn't "like" Americans - too arrogant, full of themselves etc , but the thing is, she sounds totally American to me - I've just never told her this!
Is there a particular accent that you like?
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Not in the parts of the Ruhr I know. I do remember going to Rees a few years ago and being very disappointed at being addressed in Hochdeutsch rather than Rheinländerplatt.Winston Gutkowski wrote:. . . And in the Ruhr, or Wesphalia, where it's spoken by rote . . .
Are you suggesting there is anything easy about quatre vingts?Actually, I found Belgian French extremely easy - other than 'septante' and 'nonante' . . .
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:Not in the parts of the Ruhr I know. I do remember going to Rees a few years ago and being very disappointed at being addressed in Hochdeutsch rather than Rheinländerplatt.
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If you heard a native Texan try to speak to a native Bostonian, you might think differently.Ahmed Bin S wrote:but Canadians and Americans sound the same to me too!
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If you heard a native Texan try to speak to a native Bostonian, you might think differently.Ahmed Bin S wrote:but Canadians and Americans sound the same to me too!
Ahmed Bin S wrote:I did one time think I had figured out the Southern US accent, until someone told me that someone from Georgia sounds totally different to someone from Texas!
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:Americans don't say R; if you want to hear Rs you have to go to Scotland
Ryan McGuire wrote:I have a question for my non-American English speakers or English-as-a-second-language folks.
How easy is it for you to decipher "dialects" that are almost intentionally hard to understand? For instance, can you understand Snoop Dogg's songs?
What about learning American, British or some other "standard" version of English and then trying to communicate with a non-native speaker. For instance, an Italian, who learned British English (for the sake of discussion), and are trying to communicate with someone from China who learned English in Hawaii. Easy? Difficult? Impossible?
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How easy is it for you to decipher "dialects" that are almost intentionally hard to understand? For instance, can you understand Snoop Dogg's songs?
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Ahmed Bin S wrote:
So, I am assuming that in other languages too, there are different accents. I am assuming there is no such thing as a "German accent", and that people in different parts of Germany speak German in different accents. Same for French - I am assuming people in France and Belgium speak French in different accents. Dutch - must be the same, right? I mean, a Dutch person in Amsterdam surely has a different accent to a Belgian Dutch, yes?
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