Found this recording of a native speaker doing a short reading. No hints. Curious what you all hear in it, region, specific sounds, anything. I will share the answer once a few people have guessed.
This is a year old, but I’m hoping someone responds. For a few years now in different times in my life, I feel like I’ve spoken with either a slight British accent or a certain pronounced one, so much so that people at various workplaces are always asking me where I’m from. I’m a Hispanic male with no ties to England, and yet this keeps happening. I don’t know where it comes from. It’s VERY ODD. And yet it almost feels very comfortable to me.
I notice that if I’m watching a British person on YouTube or I hear enough of the accent, I pick it up immediately. I’ve heard theories that if this is what you do then maybe it’s your mind that does this so you fit in with certain people around you, but there are no British people around me in my life. And I do it sometimes out of the blue, with no aural stimulus to make me speak this way. It does feel comfortable speaking this way at home, but if someone somewhere else speaks up about it I’m embarrassed.
I’m not easy to share a sample of my voice yet, maybe I. Future I will. I also have a tendency to write in what I think is a kind of formal British way.
I’m almost embarrassed to be writing this. Can someone please give their opinion on this?
I don’t know if I’m up to sampling my voice on Reddit for people to hear yet. If I feel I’m sounding like it
I think it's probably decent, but I would love specific feedback. I consume quite a lot of Spanish media but never really use it actively with natives, so it's hard to really know.
Also just realised on listening that I said "distingir" and not "distinguir", which probably proves what I was saying about Catalan, but decided to leave it as is!
so id like to improve my accent i feel like i still dont speak properly also id like to know where u think im from thanks...
I am reading from the first chapter of the original Esperanto novel Kredu Min, Sinjorino!
> 1. KIU SIN ENJUNGIS, DEVAS TIRI.
> Estis malvarmete ekstere, sed la ĉambro, kie ni sidis, estis agrable varma. Mia plej kara amiko, Ernesto, sidis kontraŭ mi, donante sin plene al sia komforta brakseĝo. Jam dum unu horo ni parolis Esperante kaj pasis de temo al temo. Estis vere instiga plezuro aŭskulti lin; li tiom bone sidis en la lingvo. Ordinare, kiam li parolas per sia gepatra lingvo: la angla, mankas al li la vervo kaj esprimo, — sume, la muziko, kiu montriĝas kiam li parolas Esperanton. Lia Esperanta prozo estas poezio. Tute malsamaj ni estas. Arto kaj poezio tute ne tuŝas min, tamen mi ne povas ne senti la belecon de lia esprim-maniero.
Please excuse the constant uhm, I really weren't sure what to say
I don’t think many people could guess the other influences in my accent, but maybe a linguist can.
I know British people can tell my accent isn’t fully British, but I don’t think they can guess where I’ve grown up, since it’s more than one country and they don’t influence the accent too much
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This was one of the takes from something I rehearsed for an online contest. I doubt I sound Canadian or even North American though (I grew up multicultural btw). What do I sound like?
Sorry for the excess noise, my bedroom is super close to a busy road. Just recovering from surgery and killing time. Tried not to overthink much and just speak.
Thanks for listening et merci d’avance pour vos remarques, vos critiques ou vos suggestions !