This thread is about the world's accents and the hardest to do. I'm Australian, and i have heard TONNES of people fail miserably at our accent, but because i speak with it naturally, i don't know how hard it is to do, so could someone please tell me how hard the Australian accent is to mimic? And any other accents that are very easy/hard to speak in.
For me, when i can't do an accent properly, i for some reason go straight to doing an Indian accent, dunno why. Plu i find the Indian accent the easiest to mimic. The hardest i know of would probably be Swedish, i dont know why, but it's just hard to do.
It's probably your perception. If you come down here you obviously won't be hearing American-ish jabber. I'm no linguistics expert.
Yeah, plus news anchors are supposed to speak more proper, articulate and be loud and clear, than usual, so that the news can be heard well in a crowded room in the television in a crowded room or what not.
I'm from Hicktown, Utah, USA, and I've pretty much mastered standard British, Russian, Scottish, Indian, Canadian, and such. I've never really tried Arab or Hebrew or anything, but the weird thing is that Irish is the hardest **** thing in the world for me, and I can only do German when I'm speaking German. Confusing....
it really depends what german you mean. there ar many different german accents. all german accents are difficult for some people because of the letters öü and r. but even though i speak german it is imposibble for me to use the other german accents.
i think the hardest accents are french, japanese, some german accents, and for some people arabic.
but since i grew up hearing many different languages like russian and arabic i might think some of the are easy while they are pretty difficult
I would have to say, Finnish and Yankee. Being a Southerner, I just can't say the E's and A's exactly like they do. But I get close. Most other accents I can get down pat if I hear it for 10 minutes or so. I got a 100 in German for faking the accent 8D
Texan seems to be difficult for people to grasp. But what about an African-tribesman? But if you mean the most harsh and over-bearing... I'm thinking some Nordic language, Polish for example.
I am really good with accents. I mostly do indian (because it's just fun to say) and I'm good with Russian and Australian. I don't even know what swedish sounds like, and I have a little trouble with chinese. But british and Australian are practically the same, so, I guess Australian isn't that hard.
Neither do I, and I'm from Sweden. Assuming you're speaking of the Swedish accent while speaking English, that is. It really depends on where in Sweden the person is from. People have very different accents all over Sweden. There is no one "Swedish accent". Though, I guess what they all have in common is that they tend to pronounce every letter clearly, sometimes even the silent ones, as that's how we do when speaking Swedish. I personally occasionally mispronounce the "th" sound as a "t" as well.
Once again, I am assuming that this is about the different accents while speaking English, and not the accents while speaking that nation's language.
I'm decent with almost any accent outside the Far East: American (NJ, TX, KY, as well as stereotypical truck driver), Canadian, Jamaican, Mexican, English, Scottish, Irish, Austrian, German, Russian, Sweedish, Transylvanian (at least the dracula stereotype version), Russian, Middle Eastern, Indian, Australian (especially the Steve Irwin version). I'm just bad with the whole Japan, Korean, China, South Asia, Indonesia area.
I can attempt most of the ones here but for some reason in about 5 or 10 seconds it turns british. It gets frustrating when you're trying to impress someone.
Most people with a pronounced accent from anywhere sound hysterical when they try to do "American". It comes out like a weird mixture of stereotypical American Southern twang and Eddie Murphy doing his "white guy" voice.
I can do good Canadian, French and Mexican (not Spanish) accents but that's probably because they are the two I'm exposed to the most and I speak Spanish as well as a little French.
I'd say a thick/deep British accent would be hard to understand. I've met a few people with them. Also, some Spanish accents can be difficult to understand.
i'm pretty good with russian, british, irish, arab, and scandinavean accents. the accents i can't do for the life of me would have to be canadian, soanish, mexican, and french.
