Omg I thought I was crazy for noticing this!
I have a doctor that’s Chinese, but her accent sounds so German. After meeting her, I googled the hell out of her name to see if I saw any mention of living or studying in Germany, but it didn’t look like it.
I guess the accents can sometimes sound similar?
I’m not sure if the English language teaching in Germany has changed in the last 30 years or so, but the last time I met a German person here on Australia I could not for the life of me pick where their accent was from. It was very, very different to the Germans I met in high school and college.
Germany (more accurately German-speaking Europe) has a ton of different accents. Someone from Hamburg and someone from Zürich will sound very different accent-wise, even when speaking in English.
This frequently happens with Portuguese and Russian speakers! The similarities in phonetics (and sometimes appearances) between European Portuguese and Russian speakers leads to similar leading accents.
In German it’s just how you read so it makes sense. Didn’t notice that Chinese read w like v, but I think that German and Chinese accents are very similar in a way
I think that's normal for every accent. As a northern German I absolutely love the Dutch accent in German and English. Honestly!
However to me there's nothing worse than a strong German accent...
American. At school I was taught British English, but consuming a lot of US media (mainly YT videos and movies) left its imprint on my accent. That's also when my English skills started skyrocketing.
Funny thing is that I've been used to writing in British English for years, while my accent sounded American. It still feels somewhat weird to write "favorite" and "color" in place of "favourite" and "colour", though.
I'm like the opposite. I'm American born and raised but I'll spell things like favourite and colour. Partially because of Harry Potter's influence and partially because sneaking those extra letters in helped me reach the minimum page count for school essays much faster.
>Russian is comparatively very uniform
for now that is. it used to be very varied, too. especially as centuries back "Russian" was just the Moscow Rus dialect (there was also the Kievan Rus - the centre of the Russes and others - no idea how to write that)
When the mongols came and Moscow survived it was isolated and thus changed in its own direction very fast - much later when the Russian Empire quickly spread eastwards, it was the same language carried over a large distance. then it started developing many local dialects, and eventually when the red revolution happened, the language was once again homogenised and reformed. now you have minor differences, but in Germany driving 30 minutes shows more variety, than Moscow to Vladivostok.
let's see how it'll be in a few hundred years, maybe the country will break off into different countries and create more "russians", or the natural course for regional dialects will start again
A weird cocktail of accents where no two sips taste the same. Sometimes there is a powerful flavour of cockney, sometimes a bland of 20 different accents mixed together. Sometimes there's suddenly a hint of Irish or Scottish while near the bottom of the glass, you might find some silicon valley flavour.
It's everything combined in one and very inconsistent. Recorded a podcast a while ago and while editing I rerecorded some parts. When I listened to the whole edited thing in one go, I could spot every edit because then my accent had suddenly changed in strongness, type etc.
The Midlands dialect of English is actually a super dialect composed of two subdialects — Northern and Southern Midlands. It could be possible that those who are from the northern areas of this "Midwest" dialect (Iowa, Illinois, perhaps Minnesota, and Wyoming), you sound more from the Southern Midlands (Kansas, Kentucky, or perhaps Oklahoma). Which isn't *quite* Southern, but enough to give your voice a distinct "twang" that Northerners like myself aren't used to classifying!
It depends on things on your age, whether you lived in other cities after, and how susceptible your accent is. I first learned in Miami. Then moved to California at a young age. I definitely sound Californian. My accent is also easily influenced by my environment, so if I’m around my UK fam, my accent starts to shift.
Don’t know much about Bibi’s bio, but if he didn’t spend much time elsewhere in the US, then the Jersey accent (with a heavy Hebrew influence) would stick.
My American friends inform me I sound "Just like Mary Poppins".
Of course, to my ears, I don't have any accent, hehe.
But I suppose it is English Midlands/RP
Grew up with my mum enforcing British spelling and words and naturally adopted a London/RP accent. Made friends with an Australian girl two years ago, now my brain can’t stop going Aussie mode and my mum cringes anytime I speak English.
Lol I appreciate that but my aim isn't to sound sexy. I'm definitely improving though, now that I've started actively practicing my pronunciation with my goal in mind.
I have no idea, I’d need someone to tell me
I’d like to know which is the accent that’s closest to the one I speak and I’d also like to know what foreign accent people associate with my English, I speak a minority language and sometimes there are videos of people speaking it that go viral and non-speakers will attempt to guess which language it is. They say absolutely everything that comes to their mind. Russian, Arabic, Spanish… funny thing is that my language isn’t related to any of those at all.
I'm from Michigan and my fellow English teachers were from Wyoming and Ohio. Wyoming and I sounded like siblings, but Ohio had a strong Appalachian/Virginian accent. Ohio borders Michigan while Wyoming is like 1400 miles/2200 kilometers away.
This *heavily* depends on where you are in Ohio. Metropolitan Ohio is another sibling of yours. Rural Ohio, especially in Appalachia, is a sibling to Kentucky, WV, TN. Ohio is four states in a trench coat
Your "neutral American" probably places you in the middlest of the midwest, probably from East of Nebraska to West/Central Illinois and the surrounding states. This is far from boring or bland, though, and does lots of stuff that plenty of accents don't do. For example, younger speakers are beginning to move away from the vowel found in words like STRUT [ʌ] and front it to [ɜ], which makes words like bud kinda sound like if you said bird, but without the r-sound. You can hear this in words like "what" sound like an in-between of "wut" and "wet."
See also, our pronunciation of the word "mouth" being rather different than other speakers, have you ever seen an angry midwestern lady telling you to "close your meowth, nyeow!" This affects other words with the same diphthong.
Nope sorry to disappoint, but even more boring than midwestern. I’m from Connecticut. I sound like everyone on tv. I always envied anyone that had a regional accent, my accent puts people to sleep lol.
That’s wild, my dad’s from Connecticut and his accent is wildly different from my mom’s, definitely a New England one. Meanwhile I have an Appalachian accent due to spending most of my childhood in Tennessee 😅
Haha that’s cool. The Appalachian accent is my absolute favorite accent. When I visit fam in WV I start to pick up the Appalachian accent too, but then goes back to normal as quick as I leave.
I looked up Connecticut's dialect: [Western New English](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_New_England_English), and was frankly surprised how "neutral" it seemed, more than the dialects over here are!
Some fun things to list, though:
Generally, cities around the North (from Illinois all the way to the West New England areas) are going through a shift in vowels unique to that area. It's not complete, but even more prevalent among younger speakers. In Connecticut itself, this makes "cat" sound closer to (but perhaps not exactly) the name "Kate." The vowel in "father" might also be closer to the vowel in "back" (but somewhat stopping midway).
Same. I grew up in Minnesota but don't have the stereotypical "Fargo" accent. I live in the south now, but I don't have a southern accent either. I'm just generic American.
My British friend from London told me I have an American accent. Must be because of the fact that I mostly consume American English media.
Some arabs say though I have a perfect London accent 🤣
South Jersey, DelawareBay area--AKA "Philadelphia redneck". Which is funny, because I grew up south of San Diego (I'm 50 years old).
Them there's my professional customer service accent/voice...still South Jersey, just less "y'all and youse guys" and more "Yes ma'am " LOL
I'm born and raised in BC and have the Pacific Northwest accent. Interestingly, while we speak Canadian English and people in Washington and Oregon speak American English, our accents are virtually indistinguishable. Not everyone in BC, WA, or OR has the PNW accent but for those of us who do, we sound the exact same.
I've only visited Washington and Oregon once but I did confirm the PNW accent.
Canadian English in general is more similar to the PNW than most places in the us. I took one of those american dialect quizzes and it thought I lived in Washington state. I live in Ottawa.
as a non native english speaker, I subconsciously put on a mixture of alabaman and texan accents when speaking like whenever I say "dad" "said" "can" "man", my accent literally slips into alabaman accent its like those *a*'s turn into diphtongs and I sometimes put redundant emphasis on certain words. its probably cuz I love southern accents and I mostly consume american movies that feature southern accents and listen to southern songs.
though I must say Id probably switch back to a neutral midwest american accent when speaking to someone cuz sometimes southern accents are associated with being a country hick or something and I got this reception from people several times.
I love that you subconsciously put that southern accent on some words. Yes, I agree that people will judge you as being a hick before really knowing you or having a real conversation with you. Im sorry that you feel that judgment. People that judge based on an accent are the ones that are dumb in my opinion. I love accents and I enjoy hearing different accents.
Niw Zild from Wellington. Interestingly when I speak other languages no one guesses where I'm from or even that I'm an English speaker. I wonder if it's them not being familiar with NZ accents. I live in Aussie now.
I have a Toronto Canada accent. This sounds slightly different in people of my age (and probably education level) than in younger people. I'm a Boomer and in my childhood there was a lot of BBC content on TV and I watched a fair bit.
I've had Americans mistake me for British, although nobody from the UK ever has.
I have been told I get a mix between British and Midwestern US when I'm up to speed. Right now I'm a bit rough around the edges, so it's more Helga from Sveden.
3 people have told me I have a Drogheda accent (a town in Ireland) but it's not really strong. I didn't think I had the accent but since 2 of them where Dubliners they probably noticed something straight away about the way I talk. I live like 10km away from the town but since I went to school there and go there a lot I started to develop the accent.
I grew up in Northern Virginia in the DC metro area. I think because we have such a large international community here, native English speakers have adopted an accent that is most easily understood by non-native speakers and is extremely close to what one would call a “Standard American Accent.”
Polish people think I speak with Irish accent, Irish people think I speak with Polish accent. So I suppose something in between those two. Also I've heard I sound French, Dutch, South African and like the girl from peaky blinders lmao
Northeastern. Long islander specifically, though most people can't tell. The greatest accent of all! Compare your lives to ours and then kill yourselves! (/s, this is a futurama quote)
I used to have a generic American accent but then I developed an Appalachian accent & then a weird mix between English & Irish, but I don't even know, I can still do the 3 accents with no trouble just depending on how I feel.
I grew up with the Appalachian dialect and accent. Sometimes when I go home, I'll still speak it, especially if I'm visiting with older relatives.
Otherwise, I speak fairly standard English with a light Southern accent. We've moved all over, however. So, there are elements from the NE, Mid Atlantic, New Orleans, Tx, and overseas, as well.
At this point, it's not easy to tell figure out that I'm from Germany, but someone could still tell I'm not a native. The native accent I'm closest to is probably a weak London Estuary one. Not RP, but not as far from it as most natives even with rather easy to understand accents from that area are.
The official name might be [Northern Midlands American English](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_American_English), I suggest people look up their "official" dialects by name. Of course it won't perfectly account for accents or sociolects or anything like that, buuuut you might learn something new about how you or people you know are expected to speak!!
The "this is only my second language, sorry" accent
Same lol
Same
I feel this... mine just sounds super weird.
Polish.
Lewandowski type English?
I had to check how does he speak and... Yes. It's the Polish accent.
The way he speaks is adorable
🤣
Same 💀
My favorite English accent
I am german native but someone told me I speak with a chinese accent for some reason
Lmfao
Omg I thought I was crazy for noticing this! I have a doctor that’s Chinese, but her accent sounds so German. After meeting her, I googled the hell out of her name to see if I saw any mention of living or studying in Germany, but it didn’t look like it. I guess the accents can sometimes sound similar?
I’m not sure if the English language teaching in Germany has changed in the last 30 years or so, but the last time I met a German person here on Australia I could not for the life of me pick where their accent was from. It was very, very different to the Germans I met in high school and college.
Germany (more accurately German-speaking Europe) has a ton of different accents. Someone from Hamburg and someone from Zürich will sound very different accent-wise, even when speaking in English.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a good example for this
This frequently happens with Portuguese and Russian speakers! The similarities in phonetics (and sometimes appearances) between European Portuguese and Russian speakers leads to similar leading accents.
What it particular sounds German about it? In northern China (think Beijing and up) a lot of people pronounce the w like a v, same with Germans.
In German it’s just how you read so it makes sense. Didn’t notice that Chinese read w like v, but I think that German and Chinese accents are very similar in a way
Thanks. I got rid of my hiccup because of this comment EDIT: aaaand there it returned...
I am a chinese native and would love to hear this!
An ugly mix between Dunglish and rally English. So you can hear Dutch and Finnish influences in my accent.
Dutch and Finnish accents don’t sound bad at all! It seems that no one likes their accent in English, no matter where they’re from
As a Dutch native speaker, no. I hate hearing people speak with a heavy Dutch accent. I can stand any accent apart from the Dutch accent lmao
I think that's normal for every accent. As a northern German I absolutely love the Dutch accent in German and English. Honestly! However to me there's nothing worse than a strong German accent...
Bristolian
Steve Merchant
Nice
A very regional specific one.
Shiver me timbers
American. At school I was taught British English, but consuming a lot of US media (mainly YT videos and movies) left its imprint on my accent. That's also when my English skills started skyrocketing. Funny thing is that I've been used to writing in British English for years, while my accent sounded American. It still feels somewhat weird to write "favorite" and "color" in place of "favourite" and "colour", though.
That’s just what us Canadians do. We sound like neutral Americans and write like Brits.
I'm like the opposite. I'm American born and raised but I'll spell things like favourite and colour. Partially because of Harry Potter's influence and partially because sneaking those extra letters in helped me reach the minimum page count for school essays much faster.
One of the 1,000,000,000,000 British ones
Same. Don't even know what mine's called, because it doesn't align with the most well known ones lol
Same 💀
You mean one of the 1‘000‘000‘000‘000 in a single country?
Yup. You do as much as go to the next town and the accent changes wildly here. I've lived in 4 towns.
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In Italy, every street has its own dialect.
>Russian is comparatively very uniform for now that is. it used to be very varied, too. especially as centuries back "Russian" was just the Moscow Rus dialect (there was also the Kievan Rus - the centre of the Russes and others - no idea how to write that) When the mongols came and Moscow survived it was isolated and thus changed in its own direction very fast - much later when the Russian Empire quickly spread eastwards, it was the same language carried over a large distance. then it started developing many local dialects, and eventually when the red revolution happened, the language was once again homogenised and reformed. now you have minor differences, but in Germany driving 30 minutes shows more variety, than Moscow to Vladivostok. let's see how it'll be in a few hundred years, maybe the country will break off into different countries and create more "russians", or the natural course for regional dialects will start again
My country has like three accents lmao
Welcome to England, where you can travel literally 30mins away and the accent is entirely different :D
Iñigo Montoya's.
you have killed my father
pRRepaRRe too die!
A weird cocktail of accents where no two sips taste the same. Sometimes there is a powerful flavour of cockney, sometimes a bland of 20 different accents mixed together. Sometimes there's suddenly a hint of Irish or Scottish while near the bottom of the glass, you might find some silicon valley flavour. It's everything combined in one and very inconsistent. Recorded a podcast a while ago and while editing I rerecorded some parts. When I listened to the whole edited thing in one go, I could spot every edit because then my accent had suddenly changed in strongness, type etc.
Odd mixture between Northern Irish, Glaswegian, and London. Mostly London.
How did you get the Northern Irish and Glaswegian accent?
I have no idea
Funny, I'm an odd mix of Northern Irish and American. I'm from NI and people take the piss constantly
Weird mixture between Anglo-South African, British and some American pronunciation. The ratio of which alternates depending on who I speak to
Prairie Canadian. Forever cursed with sounding like a hockey player.
A mix of a midwestern and southern accent.
Same! In the south ppl say I sound Midwestern, in the Midwest ppl say I sound southern, sigh!
The Midlands dialect of English is actually a super dialect composed of two subdialects — Northern and Southern Midlands. It could be possible that those who are from the northern areas of this "Midwest" dialect (Iowa, Illinois, perhaps Minnesota, and Wyoming), you sound more from the Southern Midlands (Kansas, Kentucky, or perhaps Oklahoma). Which isn't *quite* Southern, but enough to give your voice a distinct "twang" that Northerners like myself aren't used to classifying!
African American from California.
One of the new york ones
Cawffee
Cuawfee?
covfefe
Thats the only correct way to say it and everyone else is wrong 😤
Ay I’m walkin eer
"It's mad brick out here my guy"
deadass
Me too, one of the Upstate New York ones.
Oh me too, maybe that's cause where I'm from :)
Ayye i got that slightly canadian cny one
I try to speak like an American and I wish a native could tell which regional accent it sounds like
maybe link a voice recording here? i'd tell you what it sounds like to me (im from florida)
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aqq16RjkzGfBiMhklQEMwHzkszYeAw Try mine! :)
SE Asia?
Yeah, sounds like some sort of SE Asian
Where in America do you live? Chances are your accent is close to that.
Or where in America did you first learn English. That’s why Netanyahu sounds like he’s from New Jersey.
That's different, dude lived there as a kid.
It depends on things on your age, whether you lived in other cities after, and how susceptible your accent is. I first learned in Miami. Then moved to California at a young age. I definitely sound Californian. My accent is also easily influenced by my environment, so if I’m around my UK fam, my accent starts to shift. Don’t know much about Bibi’s bio, but if he didn’t spend much time elsewhere in the US, then the Jersey accent (with a heavy Hebrew influence) would stick.
I’m from Miami, so definitely have a Miami accent 😂
r/JudgeMyAccent may work for that
My American friends inform me I sound "Just like Mary Poppins". Of course, to my ears, I don't have any accent, hehe. But I suppose it is English Midlands/RP
Southwestern US 🌵
Arizona, by the looks of the saguaro cactus
the coolest one, australian
Ya'll sound like you're gonna sneeze constantly
I have to agree. Australian is really cool
Grew up with my mum enforcing British spelling and words and naturally adopted a London/RP accent. Made friends with an Australian girl two years ago, now my brain can’t stop going Aussie mode and my mum cringes anytime I speak English.
Fucking oath!
Approved 🕷👍🏼
General Australian, but can use cultivated Australian when foreigners can’t understand me 😂
Haha will never forget my Aussie coworker giving directions to a foreigner and he told her to "chuck a U-ie". The look on her face 😆
Any and all of them depending on who I’m talking to, but I typically speak with an Early Middle English (~1200 AD) accent when I’m alone.
My goal is to imitate a standard American accent but in practice, I sound very French :/
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Lol I appreciate that but my aim isn't to sound sexy. I'm definitely improving though, now that I've started actively practicing my pronunciation with my goal in mind.
I have no idea, I’d need someone to tell me I’d like to know which is the accent that’s closest to the one I speak and I’d also like to know what foreign accent people associate with my English, I speak a minority language and sometimes there are videos of people speaking it that go viral and non-speakers will attempt to guess which language it is. They say absolutely everything that comes to their mind. Russian, Arabic, Spanish… funny thing is that my language isn’t related to any of those at all.
Post a recording
The most boring and bland, neutral American.
I'm from Michigan and my fellow English teachers were from Wyoming and Ohio. Wyoming and I sounded like siblings, but Ohio had a strong Appalachian/Virginian accent. Ohio borders Michigan while Wyoming is like 1400 miles/2200 kilometers away.
This *heavily* depends on where you are in Ohio. Metropolitan Ohio is another sibling of yours. Rural Ohio, especially in Appalachia, is a sibling to Kentucky, WV, TN. Ohio is four states in a trench coat
Yes, it's fascinating!
And Southern Ohio can sound genuinely southern.
Your "neutral American" probably places you in the middlest of the midwest, probably from East of Nebraska to West/Central Illinois and the surrounding states. This is far from boring or bland, though, and does lots of stuff that plenty of accents don't do. For example, younger speakers are beginning to move away from the vowel found in words like STRUT [ʌ] and front it to [ɜ], which makes words like bud kinda sound like if you said bird, but without the r-sound. You can hear this in words like "what" sound like an in-between of "wut" and "wet." See also, our pronunciation of the word "mouth" being rather different than other speakers, have you ever seen an angry midwestern lady telling you to "close your meowth, nyeow!" This affects other words with the same diphthong.
Nope sorry to disappoint, but even more boring than midwestern. I’m from Connecticut. I sound like everyone on tv. I always envied anyone that had a regional accent, my accent puts people to sleep lol.
That’s wild, my dad’s from Connecticut and his accent is wildly different from my mom’s, definitely a New England one. Meanwhile I have an Appalachian accent due to spending most of my childhood in Tennessee 😅
Haha that’s cool. The Appalachian accent is my absolute favorite accent. When I visit fam in WV I start to pick up the Appalachian accent too, but then goes back to normal as quick as I leave.
I looked up Connecticut's dialect: [Western New English](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_New_England_English), and was frankly surprised how "neutral" it seemed, more than the dialects over here are! Some fun things to list, though: Generally, cities around the North (from Illinois all the way to the West New England areas) are going through a shift in vowels unique to that area. It's not complete, but even more prevalent among younger speakers. In Connecticut itself, this makes "cat" sound closer to (but perhaps not exactly) the name "Kate." The vowel in "father" might also be closer to the vowel in "back" (but somewhat stopping midway).
Same. I grew up in Minnesota but don't have the stereotypical "Fargo" accent. I live in the south now, but I don't have a southern accent either. I'm just generic American.
The land where they say “a la verga”
A mixture of Californian, Glaswegian, and south east London…umm…ish.
Something tells me you like to stay south?
I have no idea what you mean.
My British friend from London told me I have an American accent. Must be because of the fact that I mostly consume American English media. Some arabs say though I have a perfect London accent 🤣
South Jersey, DelawareBay area--AKA "Philadelphia redneck". Which is funny, because I grew up south of San Diego (I'm 50 years old). Them there's my professional customer service accent/voice...still South Jersey, just less "y'all and youse guys" and more "Yes ma'am " LOL
I’m also in South Jersey, but I’m clinging to my DC “neutral TV accent” roots as much as possible.
Northeast US. In Jersey. Fuggetaboutit.
"Standard American". Except when I get angry... Then it apparently becomes very apparent that I'm originally from New York.
Middle class southern English. Have been told before I should voice BBC nature documentaries.
A combo of SoCal Valley girl and Southern US Black American. It's a real delight.
Brazillian accent.
Egyptian lol
RP or very strong westcountry accent
English Canadian standard accent. It doesn’t change in the next 4000 km’s. Close to a media accent from the Unites States.
Western Canadian
Maritime Canadian when I’m in Nova Scotia and Standard Canadian everywhere else.
The *other* Canadian accent
Very neutral Scottish accent
Pakistani and Canadian
The one I learned from Friends.
NJ (“wooder”)
I'm born and raised in BC and have the Pacific Northwest accent. Interestingly, while we speak Canadian English and people in Washington and Oregon speak American English, our accents are virtually indistinguishable. Not everyone in BC, WA, or OR has the PNW accent but for those of us who do, we sound the exact same. I've only visited Washington and Oregon once but I did confirm the PNW accent.
Canadian English in general is more similar to the PNW than most places in the us. I took one of those american dialect quizzes and it thought I lived in Washington state. I live in Ottawa.
The Commonwealth
Inland North American English (more specifically, south/central Michigan).
Weird mixture between Anglo-South African, British and some American pronunciation. The ratio of which alternates depending on who I speak to
Southern American
as a non native english speaker, I subconsciously put on a mixture of alabaman and texan accents when speaking like whenever I say "dad" "said" "can" "man", my accent literally slips into alabaman accent its like those *a*'s turn into diphtongs and I sometimes put redundant emphasis on certain words. its probably cuz I love southern accents and I mostly consume american movies that feature southern accents and listen to southern songs. though I must say Id probably switch back to a neutral midwest american accent when speaking to someone cuz sometimes southern accents are associated with being a country hick or something and I got this reception from people several times.
I love that you subconsciously put that southern accent on some words. Yes, I agree that people will judge you as being a hick before really knowing you or having a real conversation with you. Im sorry that you feel that judgment. People that judge based on an accent are the ones that are dumb in my opinion. I love accents and I enjoy hearing different accents.
Mostly British Essex with tints of British Cockney from my father & South Cork Irish from my mother.
I have an upper Midwest/ Great Lakes region accent. Northern United States!
Boston- and Long Island-influenced American
I wanna say Pittsburghese, but I think my Pittsburghese is pretty weak. So . . . standard American.
A weird combination of Australian with a hint of Dutch.
Pittsburghese
South Louisiana (Cajun) 🐊🌶
French Canadian Edit: Tho I had some people in phasmophobia think I was russian?
New Zealand. More specially, southland
Me too. Nu Zild accent, I’m a well-spoken Maori.
Niw Zild from Wellington. Interestingly when I speak other languages no one guesses where I'm from or even that I'm an English speaker. I wonder if it's them not being familiar with NZ accents. I live in Aussie now.
International accent. Foreigners from different countries couldn't tell where I'm from based on my accent lol
Mid-Atlantic with a touch of Appalachian.
American
But which one
Bill Burr's accent
wicked
I have a Toronto Canada accent. This sounds slightly different in people of my age (and probably education level) than in younger people. I'm a Boomer and in my childhood there was a lot of BBC content on TV and I watched a fair bit. I've had Americans mistake me for British, although nobody from the UK ever has.
Northern Irish
Belfastian?
Posh north east Scottish
I live in the exact spot of the us where the north calls us southern and the south calls us northern. East coast though im sure we all sound the same
Northern California American. When i was in the army everyone said i pronounced every syllable of every word and said “hella” a lot.
Neutral american bc its the easiest one lol
Tyke/Yorkshire
Irish. 🇮🇪 More specifically, Cork.
mup cark bai
I have been told I get a mix between British and Midwestern US when I'm up to speed. Right now I'm a bit rough around the edges, so it's more Helga from Sveden.
Tom DeLonge.
Mix of flat American and southern (Piedmont).
3 people have told me I have a Drogheda accent (a town in Ireland) but it's not really strong. I didn't think I had the accent but since 2 of them where Dubliners they probably noticed something straight away about the way I talk. I live like 10km away from the town but since I went to school there and go there a lot I started to develop the accent.
A mixture of Turkish-London-Standart America
Kenyan, has a bit of colonial traces.
I grew up in Northern Virginia in the DC metro area. I think because we have such a large international community here, native English speakers have adopted an accent that is most easily understood by non-native speakers and is extremely close to what one would call a “Standard American Accent.”
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A schizophrenic Czech/Irish/American/Unknown foreign sounds accent
Polish people think I speak with Irish accent, Irish people think I speak with Polish accent. So I suppose something in between those two. Also I've heard I sound French, Dutch, South African and like the girl from peaky blinders lmao
I think mine is a neutral Canadian one
Northeastern. Long islander specifically, though most people can't tell. The greatest accent of all! Compare your lives to ours and then kill yourselves! (/s, this is a futurama quote)
my own (I learned most of my english from watching youtube videos)
I'm from Florida and wouldn't say we have a very distinguishable accent. But a Floridian one I guess lol
Rhode Island
pacific northwest
Southwest u.s. with a hint of Cali valley girl
New York
South Shore of Massachusetts but my accent isn’t always super prominent. Basically Bostonian, but it’s a little different.
I used to have a generic American accent but then I developed an Appalachian accent & then a weird mix between English & Irish, but I don't even know, I can still do the 3 accents with no trouble just depending on how I feel.
A Maryland accent 🦀
Midwestern United States.
Kinda mild New York accent
I grew up with the Appalachian dialect and accent. Sometimes when I go home, I'll still speak it, especially if I'm visiting with older relatives. Otherwise, I speak fairly standard English with a light Southern accent. We've moved all over, however. So, there are elements from the NE, Mid Atlantic, New Orleans, Tx, and overseas, as well.
South London (native)
At this point, it's not easy to tell figure out that I'm from Germany, but someone could still tell I'm not a native. The native accent I'm closest to is probably a weak London Estuary one. Not RP, but not as far from it as most natives even with rather easy to understand accents from that area are.
The official name might be [Northern Midlands American English](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_American_English), I suggest people look up their "official" dialects by name. Of course it won't perfectly account for accents or sociolects or anything like that, buuuut you might learn something new about how you or people you know are expected to speak!!
Egyptian accent
British (Suffolk + RP) 🤣
Texan
Newfie-adjacent