r/Accents

Ok ok you guys might’ve saw my last post, but this is just a question. If I move to Australia as an Australian citizen, with Australian parents, stay there and consider this place my home, would I be considered Australian even if I have a foreign accent?

(sorry if this is a dumb question)

Reading the Fight Club.

Where do you think that I from?

https://voca.ro/1jkUkR64Je3E

Boston accents are notoriously hard for actors to nail—but these two might be in a league of their own. Who gets your vote for the worst of the worst? 👀
I love me some Leo. So he was very hard to call out. But after rewatching Shutter Island recently it reminded me of the horrible Boston accent that John Travolta tried to do in The Forger movie. Which is way worse. I say Leo has the best so far I could find with John the worst. Thoughts comments?! Who’s got the worst Boston accent.

For my current D&D campaign I am playing one Don Símon Teodoro Rodrigo Baltasar del Puerto Río de Plata y Castillo de Oro - an outrageous, comedic, over-the-top caricature of a 16th-17th century Spanish Swashbuckler (think Puss in Boots or literally any character played by Errol Flynn, but more self-centered, and needlessly stylish).

So far I’ve been basing his accent almost entirely off of George Hamilton’s exaggerated Spanish accent from Zorro the Gay Blade, and while I’ve thought about mimicking Inigo Montoya or any of the other Zorros, my gut feeling is that those are played quite seriously and might be difficult to translate into the ridiculous, overly-dramatic delivery I’m looking for.

So yeah. Any of y’all got a good clip or two I can work from?

Lately i've been watching a few american influencers, listening to a lot of country music (blame ella langley) and some western films, so no surprise i started picking up a southern US accent, and i decided to just let it flow and watch a few training videos.

A few days ago i got absolutely chewed out by my parents for saying 'ain't' this was a few days after my mum told me i do occasionally speak like an american and she has picked up on it.

It got me wondering, what's the point of learning a new accent? especially one with such cruel stereotypes associated with it and in a foreign country to boot, this is someone who can speak RP, some irish, and my regular accent, and i don't really use any of the others anymore.

I just like learning stuff, it's fun, but it's also very stressful to have it pointed out, to have to explain it, to be chewed out, for something that isn't really productive anyway.

Talk in Arabic, and it drops a pin on a map for the city and country it sounds like you're from. It got my country right and then missed my city by a little bit.
Curious how it does on people here.

There's also a listening game mode where you can try to guess other Arab accents and get a score, with a leaderboard for the highest scores.

Let me know what you think of the site!

She's Finnish as am I. I cannot detect even a hint of Finnish in her English. She sounds 100% American to me.

Does her accent point to some specific region in the US, or is it a "nowhere" American accent?

Back in the 90's when I went to college you could tell where everyone was broadly from when they talk or often from how they dressed .

Last 10 years or so seems like we are moving toward a more general American accent. When I go visit my uncle in New York the Gen Z and younger most don't have what I know as a new york accent.

Same when I travel to the south the southern drwal seems to be disappearing from the younger generations.

Same with clothing. I could look at someone in 1997 and just tell you yep they are from north east , or south or California. I can't do that anymore

hi this is my first ever time posting on reddit. let me know if this is the wrong community.
i'm into acting and trying to perfect my american accent. i'm dutch but fluent in english and often get told i sound american. i agree, but i feel like it's missing a little something. i don't pronounce words wrong in obvious ways and rather think it's in the small things.
does anyone have any advice on further improving my standard american accent?