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Post by hemsuda on Mar 6, 2013 16:37:34 GMT -5
Can you identify foreigner's accent who speak English, where are they from? ... In case of you do not see them.
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Post by adrianasabau on Mar 7, 2013 9:06:12 GMT -5
There many types of accents that I am able to identify.People for the former Soviet Union and people from Eastern Europe have a similar accent but not quite the same.French people speak English in a very particular way .Also most of the Indian People have a heavy and particular accent.A slight accent could be charming and interesting but a heavy one could destroyed your credibility.Accent is very important because native speakers can judge you for that.
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Post by zhumanovb on Mar 10, 2013 10:52:50 GMT -5
I can indenify people from post Soviet Union countries, they have russian accent. People from India and Pakistan have usually hard accent. And it's easy to identify people from Asia like Japan, China and Korea. French accent is so easy identify too))
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Post by DIEGO CASTANEDA on Mar 10, 2013 13:25:22 GMT -5
 I was listening to a song by the Mexican band RBD in English, and noticed the foreign accent, which I know is no big deal, but it made me think about people who have Spanish as a first language and learn English as a foreign language. A Mexican speaking English and a Chilean speaking English sound very similar to me. However, Chileans and Mexicans sound very different when they speak Spanish. If they just said one word maybe it would be similar, but if you heard a Chilean talk for just a few minutes, his or her accent would be distinguishable from a Mexican's. But why is it that Spanish speakers seem to have a similar accent when speaking English? I guess the obvious answer is they all speak the same language with more or less the same phonetic alphabet, but is there more to it? I know this is a big generalization and there are many Spanish speakers who speak English with very little accent, but the vast majority of people I have met in Chile, from Chile and other Spanish speaking countries, have a similar accent, but it doesn't sound particularly Chilean or Mexican. Has anyone else thought about this? |
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Post by hemsuda on Mar 13, 2013 16:08:28 GMT -5
hahaha....I sometime can identify but not really all of them. I know that people is from the same continent usually have the same accent, for example people who come from East-Asia such as Korea and Japan, they are the same accent.
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Post by dovile kaziunaite on Mar 13, 2013 16:51:05 GMT -5
Some of them I can identify. And in CSI I'm still learning it  But as about me, I am very shy to talk with americans, because of my accent..... So sometime it's disturb to be. |
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Post by olgakushnir on Mar 14, 2013 11:06:06 GMT -5
It used to be very complicated question when I was learning English in my country. Our teachers kept telling us that accent was something horrible and so on. But now, being here I realize that you will never get rid of your accent completely and it's not a problem. Now I feel more comfortable to talk to native speakers. The most important thing is that PEOPLE UNDERSTAND YOU. I have a chance lately to visit hospital, doctors, clinics, other public places like these and I notice that people have much more horrible accent than I do and they live here and work and everything is good. Of course not every accent is so easy to understand and I would say Russian accent is one of the easiest because they pronounce words and sounds hard.  |
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