Adopting different accents?

[pugilistico]

Throughout my life my accent has changed. I grew up in east coast but started to speak a bit with a drawl when I lived in the South for a few years. Then when I started living abroad I ended up hanging out with mostly Californians and I picked up the way they speak, which makes people think I'm from California even though I never lived there. My southern accent comes out more when I hang out with southerners.

Now that I've been more exposed to English speakers from different countries, I ended up adopting things from then. I say "mate" more now. To non-English people, I can do a pretty good "general" English accent now but English people can tell that I'm faking it.

But no matter how long I've been away from the states, I still default to a general American accent. But it's fun to mess around with different accents. The South African accent is a really fun one.

Has anyone successfully learned how to speak with a different accent?

 

[Lycandroid]

I lost some of my accent by moving to alberta, I think I have interacted with a half dozen french speakers in the last 20 years I bet if I heard a recording of myself from back then I would not recognize myself

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Gimme a week and I'll be speaking like a native.

 

[HoiceNJuicy]

 

[Zer]

I lost some of my accent by moving to alberta, I think I have interacted with a half dozen french speakers in the last 20 years I bet if I heard a recording of myself from back then I would not recognize myself

I'm a British guy who lived in Alberta for 15+ years, and while I still have a British accent I habitually say 'eh' at the end of sentences. Like way more than any Canadian I've met

 

[SwaggyT]

You all talk like queers.

 

[Osculater]

I speak with a Sherdog accent

 

[Osculater]

You all talk like queers.

Queer but not gay

 

[wlu.29]

I was watching this show, killing eve, and the villain on there Villanelle is great.

She switches seamlessly from English, French, Russian and Spanish.

 

[PaddyO'malley]

Mi nuh rly have XP wid dat fam my bad broski

 

[pugilistico]

I speak with a Sherdog accent

"I touch dime boises with teh jab and fill the room with uppercuts?"

 

[Osculater]

"I touch dime boises with teh jab and fill the room with uppercuts?"

 

[Osculater]

Mi nuh rly have XP wid dat fam my bad broski

Teh @NoGoodNamesLeft accent

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

I train and talk UFC

 

[PaddyO'malley]

Teh @NoGoodNamesLeft accent

Yhae borksig mi nhu fulnte thio6 di yu5te str8 lwegnd fi8 rwel

@NoGoodNamesLeft

 

[Osculater]

Yhae borksig mi nhu fulnte thio6 di yu5te str8 lwegnd fi8 rwel

@NoGoodNamesLeft

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Depends on what part of Texas I'm in.

 

[Osculater]

Depends on what part of Texas I'm in.

You speak ghey when in Austin?

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

You speak ghey when in Austin?

Is that Californian ?

 

[Osculater]

Is that Californian ?

Texan bruh hahaha