What do American accents sound like in other languages?

[RayA]

One thing I have always wondered is how an American accent sounds in different languages. Here in America, some people find a French or Spanish accent (accent, not broken english) attractive or sexy. Russian accents have a very gritty and hardened sound to it, while a Chinese accent is almost universally unattractive (sorry China).

Can anybody here give me an idea of how Americans sound when speaking another language?

 

[punky brewster]

 

[Fedorgasm]

Think of how some dumb shit hillbilly from Alabama sounds to you.


That's how Americans sound to the rest of the world.

 

[My name is]

We sound like Americans

 

[Deleted member 220895]

We sound like Australians to the Chinese, and Pakistani to Russians. England thinks we're mocking the Canadian dialect. Chile is indifferent.

 

[Alphaboy]

There's an entire YouTube video about this, it's kind of funny, but I'm too lazy right now to post it. Give it a quick search and you'll find it.

 

[HARRISON_3]

Think of how some dumb shit hillbilly from Alabama sounds to you.


That's how Americans sound to the rest of the world.

 

[lifelessheap]

Americans don't even sound the same to each other. I'm from NorCal and I sound different than my SoCal family members. People in Oregon sound a little different. And then we have all of the South and their different regional differences. Then the Mid-West and the all the various New York and Boston accents.

There are endless American accents.

 

[RayA]

We sound like Americans

No shit. But what does that mean? Do other countries find it unattractive and harsh to listen to, or does it actually have a somewhat pleasant sound to it? In many fast speaking languages, do we sound like slow retards that become annoying to hear? Do we sound overly nasaly, etc.

 

[Shaungotti]

No clue how Americans sound but I can tell how English speakers in Canada sound.

It varies by region but the overwhelming majority of English speakers here don't speak French. Those who do still struggle, generally speaking.

Among the ones that you can actually consider fluent in French, their accent is usually quite strong.

If anything, they score points for making the effort but it isn't sexy in any way.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Dominant. That’s how we sound.

 

[ObsoleteSoul]

Depends on the accent and where in the world.

Only one I know is that Australian chicks really liked my slight southern accent. Nothing but compliments there

 

[Philo-Publius]

 

[SRN]

I have a thing for southern accents. And I think Boston accent sounds pretty cool.

 

[ObsoleteSoul]

That was some horrible, yet funny accents.

 

[ufcfan4]

That was some horrible, yet funny accents.

Very solid video. You could really see varying levels of quality. I thought a few of them did quite well, others it was more of a bastardized caricature of a particular regional American accent, but, hey, I'm really bad at doing accents from other nations so I'm not one to talk.

I'm just real impressed with actors like Colin Farrell, Kate Winslet, Christian Bale who can put on American accents very well. I had friends who had no idea Bale was Welsh until he won the MTV movie award for Batman Begins and spoke in his normal accent lol.

I wonder if it's easier for actors from the UK to put on an American accent than it is for American actors to adopt a British one.Or if UK actors just tend to be better at it.

 

[ObsoleteSoul]

Very solid video. You could really see varying levels of quality. I thought a few of them did quite well, others it was more of a bastardized caricature of a particular regional American accent, but, hey, I'm really bad at doing accents from other nations so I'm not one to talk.

I'm just real impressed with actors like Colin Farrell, Kate Winslet, Christian Bale who can put on American accents very well. I had friends who had no idea Bale was Welsh until he won the MTV movie award for Batman Begins and spoke in his normal accent lol.

I wonder if it's easier for actors from the UK to put on an American accent than it is for American actors to adopt a British one.Or if UK actors just tend to be better at it.

I cannot do any accents myself. Mine is generally hard to get rid of. Though some of them were really godawful. Maybe Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins" bad. That is what makes the good actors so much more impressive.

I would imagine the UK actors have an easier time of it. Seems the American R sound is more difficult to drop from our way of speaking. Seems very forceful, and it makes sense to me that it would be easier to add it, then drop. Of course, this is probably off, and in no way the truth lol.

 

[Hans Gercmiov]

Americans don't even sound the same to each other. I'm from NorCal and I sound different than my SoCal family members. People in Oregon sound a little different. And then we have all of the South and their different regional differences. Then the Mid-West and the all the various New York and Boston accents.

There are endless American accents.

I remember watching I think it was the Ms Hooter’s pageant hosted by Ken Flo one year and I could tell every time a chick came up that was from Texas. The rest I didn’t have a clue.

 

[TheFirstEMP]

Think of how some dumb shit hillbilly from Alabama sounds to you.


That's how Americans sound to the rest of the world.

Sounds like dominance. Like how the English are America’s bitches.

 

[Osculater]

Think of how some dumb shit hillbilly from Alabama sounds to you.


That's how Americans sound to the rest of the world.