So...here are some questions:
1. What accent do you speak in when you speak your native language? Don't tell me you don't have one, because everyone has an accent, even if it's the "standard" accent for the language in question.
I have an odd accent
it is a mixture of french, new york, and bostan accents
2. Do you mispronounce words because of your accent? I'm not talking about simple variant pronunciation. I'm talking about the way people in Boston say the word "career" like "Korea" and "Korea" like "career" (or, for example, the way Billy Joel sings about "Brender & Eddie" in "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" ).
otay
I saw sweatshirt wrong
and dresser
and hello
and love
and equivical
and the names of alot of foods
in very odd manners
3. Do you speak any other languages fluently enough to have a distinctive local accent in that language? For example, my Moscow accent, my friend's Parisian accent when he speaks French, etc.
I have a Swiss accent when I speak french
4. Are any of your accents "looked down" upon? (For example, Cockney or similar accents in England, Algerian accents in French, Caucasus accents in Russian, Long Island accents in American English, etc., etc., etc. )
*shrugs* um I say some words with a New York accent and people make fun of me
when I speak in french people comment that I speak like a swiss woman
5. As long as we're speaking about accents, are there any foreign accents which, when you hear your native language spoken in, turn you on/sound pretty ?
oh my
british
scotish
irish
I simple adore those
6. Are there any foreign accents which make your language sound awful?
the tipical American hick accent
Okay, that's it. 'Twas a short survey.
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