Accents

Epignosis wrote: tszirmay wrote: I am fortunate to speak 7 languages fluently (no talent there , learned them very young!), so accents come rather easily. I spoke Hungarian at home, went to French school , lived in an English neighborhood (Montreal) , had a Spanish tutor (cubano no es lindo!) on Saturdays and a German one on Sunday.  I can also do various Brit accents, Scot is somehow easier than Irish (when I finally realized that if your jaw doesn't move from alcohol stupor, the tongue will do Irish naturally! ) , Afrikaner is quite hard to master, while English with a German accent is easy, French the same and Italian/Spanish also. Portuguese is not as pretty as Brazilian (they talk like they play futbol!) . As for my mother tongue, Hungarian is like an alien language from Mars with no resemblance to anything else.......   I cannot imagine being fluent in three languages, much less seven. This is one of America's biggest problems- a pride in multilingualism.

A Person wrote: stonebeard wrote: http://soundcloud.com/drewagler/a-dramatic-reading/s-hQbUQ Here's me reading a paragraph from Game of Thrones. Not too intense of an accent, no? I still say you have a nice voice, and I can't hear an accent personally.

But he has one, depending on whom you ask.  Right Brits?  Aussies?

stonebeard wrote: http://soundcloud.com/drewagler/a-dramatic-reading/s-hQbUQ Here's me reading a paragraph from Game of Thrones. Not too intense of an accent, no?

Too plain, I'd say.

(Not that you plain on narrating the series)

And you're no Morgan Freeman. 

stonebeard wrote: http://soundcloud.com/drewagler/a-dramatic-reading/s-hQbUQ Here's me reading a paragraph from Game of Thrones. Not too intense of an accent, no?

I still say you have a nice voice, and I can't hear an accent personally.

Epignosis wrote: The Amy Walker bit was good except the Charleston accent is way dated.

An interesting point. I find the temporal differences in accents fascinating. For example, the way people speak in American films from the 1930's is drastically different than the way they speak now. It's a shame that recording technology is so new and we have no idea what people sounded like several centuries ago.

I am fortunate to speak 7 languages fluently (no talent there , learned them very young!), so accents come rather easily. I spoke Hungarian at home, went to French school , lived in an English neighborhood (Montreal) , had a Spanish tutor (cubano no es lindo!) on Saturdays and a German one on Sunday.  I can also do various Brit accents, Scot is somehow easier than Irish (when I finally realized that if your jaw doesn't move from alcohol stupor, the tongue will do Irish naturally! ) , Afrikaner is quite hard to master, while English with a German accent is easy, French the same and Italian/Spanish also. Portuguese is not as pretty as Brazilian (they talk like they play futbol!) . As for my mother tongue, Hungarian is like an alien language from Mars with no resemblance to anything else.......  

Atavachron wrote:  ^ I remember that clip, he's excellent though his Southern US is too exaggerated as I recall

Still funny as hell though. 

People from around Indiana are known (not known?) to have really strong accents. Of course it varies, and the yip-yappiness of some country people irritates me even as a native a lot of the time.

 ^ I remember that clip, he's excellent though his Southern US is too exaggerated as I recall