Regional accents

@sprite1950 (30453)
Corsham, England
April 1, 2018 2:02am CST
I think it's fair to say that we all have some kind of accent but is yours strong? I've never been anywhere that people couldn't understand me but even though I live in the UK, if I go further up north of the country it's very hard to understand what people are saying. It's almost like a different language. What's your accent like and have you ever had a problem making people understand you because of it? Image from Pixabay
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
1 Apr 18
I remember posting this video created by me just to let myLotters get an idea of my accent. This was when the earlier myLot was active.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
That's wonderful, we should all do that!
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@vandana7 (98826)
• India
1 Apr 18
@allknowing Very nice...I don't have such clear accent at all. @DaddyEvil has heard me. I only have an audio file.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
1 Apr 18
@sprite1950 Thanks.
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@Jessabuma (31700)
• Baguio, Philippines
1 Apr 18
I am using Filipino language (Tagalog) as dialect so it's easy to understand here. I rarely used English here, because most of the people here are also Filipinos.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
It's good practice for you to write here then
• Bucharest, Romania
1 Apr 18
Look at you active on almost any discussion here.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
@Cristi_Ichim You mean Jessa?
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@LadyDuck (458064)
• Switzerland
1 Apr 18
I do not have a strong "Milanese" accent, when I speak Italian people from north to deep south understand me very well. Let's say that, if I pay attention, they cannot guess where I am from. If I speak fast with friends, the accent comes out. I find very hard to understand people from the south of Italy.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
It's strange that accents vary even within the same country so that we cannot understand even though we are basically speaking the same language.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
@LadyDuck I am in the south west of England. People in the capital city and the south east tend to speak with only a slightly different accent but the further north you go the harder it is to understand
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@LadyDuck (458064)
• Switzerland
1 Apr 18
@sprite1950 We have as many different accents as many regions we have in Italy. If you are Italian you can usually guess from where someone is at the first few words.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
1 Apr 18
I don't have an accent although some think I do, my family up in the UP of Michigan have one though and they say I do as well.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
2 Apr 18
Being British I expect I would notice that you are American and you would know I was English. I always think I don't have an accent but when I spoke to people from a different part of England they thought I was posh!
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
2 Apr 18
@cintol There used to be a lady over here who came from Arizona and I loved her accent. She was married to an Englishman but unfortunately her marriage broke down and she moved back home. I still keep in touch with her on facebook. I only live 100 miles from London, my mum was born there so my accent would be similar although not quite the same.
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@cintol (11261)
• United States
2 Apr 18
@sprite1950 I have a friend in London and he too has an accent, its British. I love listening to him talk. In the US there are so many different ones you can almost tell which part everyone is from.
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@augusta123 (6649)
2 Apr 18
yea,it will certainly be there if one is from a different region
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
2 Apr 18
There seems to be so many different ways of speaking in one single country.
@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
2 Apr 18
@augusta123 Even the UK which is a small country has different accents, the north is really hard to understand for me.
2 Apr 18
@sprite1950 yea,especially in my country Hshaha
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@rheicel (7068)
• Philippines
1 Apr 18
I don't really have a good accent in English. I'm having a hard time grasping the accent of British people.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
@rheicel It depends on what part of the country we come from. Some accents are easier to understand than others.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
2 Apr 18
@rheicel If you come to the UK usually the further down south you are the easier the accents are to understand. The north usually pronounce their words very differently so even I have trouble understanding some of them.
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@rheicel (7068)
• Philippines
2 Apr 18
@sprite1950 What countries are easier to understand?
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@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
4 Apr 18
Everyone always seems to say i have an accent depending on where i ak. I pick up a lot of the others es0ecially if i have been around people if they talk differently
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
4 Apr 18
Yes I think we all do that. I have a friend here who lives in Arizona but she lived in the UK for 13 years and she says that everyone at home thinks she has a funny accent now!
• United States
3 Apr 18
i've been told i do.i have a northern/southern hybrid of a US accent,with a little bit of 4th generation UK leftovers.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
3 Apr 18
That sounds interesting!
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@jstory07 (134456)
• Roseburg, Oregon
1 Apr 18
I do not have a accent. But my daughter in law does she is from Great Britain.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
What part does she come from?
@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
3 Apr 18
I don't have an accent, Sprite... Everyone else has the accent!
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
3 Apr 18
A lot of people say they don't have an accent but of course we all do!
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@Freelanzer (10745)
• Canada
2 Apr 18
I am very good at understanding even strong accents because I am a good listener. I have a slight accent but speak perfect English but yet there were a few times when people acted as if they had no idea what I was saying because they are just turned off by the accent and they stop listening.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
2 Apr 18
Is your accent Canadian? I only knew one person from Canada but I had no trouble understanding him.
@Poppylicious (11133)
5 Apr 18
I always say I don't have an accent {East Anglia born and bred} but I think that's just a very southern thing to say! I lived in Sunderland for five years, and was in a relationship with a Mackam for four years and I was still struggling to understand the accent.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
5 Apr 18
I suppose we all have an accent when speaking to someone from another part of the country.
@JESSY3236 (18923)
• United States
3 Apr 18
I have a little bit of a southern accent. The vet we took Lily (my black cat) to see had a thick accent. But we understood perfectly.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
3 Apr 18
I don't think I've met an American I couldn't understand but maybe that's because they have lived over here a while.
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@Essjayd (1568)
1 Apr 18
My accent as a kid was pretty strong but it's unrecognisable now. It seems I've picked up different accent traits from everywhere I've lived and generally altered mine along the way to make it easier for others to understand.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
@Essjayd The Scottish accent can be very strong and you said you were born there. I continually have to say "pardon" if I am speaking to someone with a broad Scottish accent.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
@Essjayd I know the feeling. I once laughed in the wrong place when I was talking to someone I had trouble understanding. I'm not sure what he said but I obviously offended him!
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@Essjayd (1568)
1 Apr 18
@sprite1950 To be fair I'm Scottish born and bred yet I still struggle with understanding my relatives from the North of Scotland....I just hope I'm nodding in the right places My own accent isn't even distinguishable as Scottish these days...I've been called English a few times
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• Bucharest, Romania
1 Apr 18
I sometimes do have trouble understanding what people are trying to say.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
@Cristi_Ichim I have some Romanian friends. They have accents but speak very good English.
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
1 Apr 18
Is it possible that you mean dialects which are difficult to understand? Accents are only a light colouring of the standard pronunciation and can be understood by everybody.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
Maybe. There can be several different accents in a dialect region as some people have stated here.
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
1 Apr 18
I've lived in three different parts of Germany and speak Standard German now. I have a very good ear and can detect even slight accents. Many people are puzzled if I can tell them where they're originally from. Yet, there are dialects which I can't understand. For example, the German spoken in Switzerland hardly resembles my native language.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
There are some people in my region with strong west country accents, especially amongst the old folk. They use different words although I can usually work out what they're trying to say.
@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
1 Apr 18
There are various accents in the US but I live in the west where there is no "accent."
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
@JohnRoberts People say the Queen here has no accent but she definitely does. It's a posh accent
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• Beijing, China
1 Apr 18
it's very common in China,sometimes we can't talk with each other in that condition ,but in my opinion,it 's also interesting ,it's a kind of culture.we can learn and know it. I am woking in a international hospital ,the customers in our hostipal come from all over the world,so i can hear kinds of English ,like UK,US,PHI,Africa and so on ,as a Chinese ,my English is not good,in face of this ,it really make me confused sometimes~,So now I don't even kown what kind of English I am learning.
@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
I can't tell what you sound like but I can understand what you write. It must be difficult to be around so many different languages and accents.
@Icydoll (36717)
• India
1 Apr 18
Accent problems are common in my place..I faced trouble in understanding...but that's okay .
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
1 Apr 18
I guess we manage to work out the gist of what's being said in most cases.