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Faking Accents
Can you fake the accent from your host country?
When I first got here any Australian accent I would try would end up English. I think now I could fake a few sentences or at least a few words.
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Re: Faking Accents
I'm Irish living in Ireland so doesn't really apply right now...
But I lived in Luxembourg for a year and spoke French most of the time there. After that I was in London for 2 years. But when I was in London I was speaking to someone in French on the telephone and I could sense the person beside me looking at me strangely... When I got off the phone I asked her what was up - she told me I had a Belgian accent! (she hadn't realised prior to this that I spoke French).
I can do an English accent for a bit too, a few of them... I lived in the East end of London...
Not a chance. Even using Aussie slang with an American accent sounds like I'm "trying to hard", so I just go with the US accent and the American English.
Although I am wondering if my accent is fading a bit. this past week I had one man explain to me what an American penny was (color, size,etc) and another man try to convince me that a Kiwi coin was interchangeable with an Aussie coin "just like a US coin and Canadian coin are" ?!?!?!
I'm very impressionable with accents. Sometimes when speaking with XH's family, I would inadvertently end up with an Israeli accent, "Here, take zis to za table" I pick up on people's accents and adapt quickly. I blame my nomadic childhood...
I usually pick up accents quickly too. Send me to KY or NC for more than three days and I come back sounding like I was born there. The Aussie accent ... nothing.
The only thing I've noticed is that the longer we are here, the less I am able to understand H. He is starting to sound like he mumbles all the time. I routinely have to ask him to repeat what he says and really only understand him when he's looking directly at me.
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I'm like this too! 3 days in any place is enough to make to sound like a native!
I lived in the same house my entire childhood but I still pick up accents fairly easily. I thought maybe it was because my mother was a music teacher.
Danish is a giant PITA, though, pronunciation-wise. I can speak English with a Danish accent, absolutely. (This actually comes in handy when ordering food, so I don't have to 'out' myself as a foreigner even if I'm ordering a 'bacon cheeseburger' or 'chocolate chip cookie'.) I can speak Danish with less accent than many of the people I know, but I will not claim that I speak it as a native would. They have over 40 vowel sounds. Over. 40. Yeah, it takes a while to learn that.
Nope.
My H can do a fairly good American accent at times.
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Even though I have lived here over 4 yrs I cannot for the life of me fake the Aussie accent.
Although when I do go home my family says I sound different and a lady at the bank once thought I was Australian. So maybe I don't need to fake it!
Australians still think I sound either American or Canadian so who knows what I really sound like!
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I probably could fake a British accent that most Americans would find convincing, though I doubt Brits would buy it:-) I'm sure people would ask me exactly what part of the UK I was from to end up with an accent like that!
However, it's really funny to hear Brits try to fake American accents:-)