Accents

Southern of course. I really did not realize that I had one until we were going on an excursion to Mexico from a cruise ship and we were told we needed two picture ID's to go. I only had my DL and when I mentioned it to the director, he said "Just open your mouth and start talking, and you will have no problem getting back on the cruise". No problem but I don't think it had anything to do with my accent.
 
When I was working in Indonesia one member of our security team was a big burly Scotsman and to me he had a very heavy accent, until I was around him for awhile I sometimes had a hard time understanding what the heck he was saying but I liked the sound of the accent......I'm sure that he probably had a tough time understanding my Okie accent also. :)
 
I enjoy all versions of English. Where I live
most languages of the world are spoken,
but all of these people attend English classes.

This is what I like, I try to pin-point where
they are from in the world.

Indians speaking bad English are the most
difficult to understand, all of the British ones
are easy to place, but I find difficulty with
some of the American accents from states
usually around the center of the country,
the South and the East are OK as is Texas,
but the rest sound the same to me.

Mike.
 
I like a French or southern Irish accent.

I find Scottish and Portuguese accents quite hard to understand and usually just stand there nodding my head, (hoping I shouldn’t be shaking it)...
 
Wren said:
I like a French or southern Irish accent.

I find Scottish and Portuguese accents quite hard to understand and usually just stand there nodding my head, (hoping I shouldn’t be shaking it)...
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Like many places , it all depends where in Scotland the accent is from. Some are very difficult to understand others not so much.

On a small private forum where there were only 2 of us Brits and 4 or 5 Americans, we all updated our voices to the computer so we could hear how we all sound... and one American poster, (who happens to be a member of this forum too)...sounded disappointed when she heard my voice , and said (''oooh you sound like you come from here'') :rofl1:...so my Scottish accent is not harsh and very easy to understand
 
Italian, German and French accents all remind me of food.

Italian because of as a child my family lived in New Jersey for a while. We lived in a duplex with the landlord who were an older Italian couple living in the other duplex. The wife would often bring over the Italian food she cooked and it was wonderful! Even to this day I have taste memories of that time.

German (as spoken in Austria) reminds me of Wiener Schnitzel and pastries.

However, my favorite accent to listen to is French. As to what does food have to do with it, it sounds like they're trying to swallow a meatball.
 
I, an American, worked for a British company for 24 years. It was said that if you worked there long enough you would develop a "mid-atlantic" accent.
 
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