This is a very useless question, but I've been wondering that for a while. What do English, American & other native english speaking persons think about foreigners' pronounciation ?
Personnally I try to eradicate any sign of French accent when I speak english...but I don't know how french accent is perceived
I think it depends how badly you try to "speak english". You've got the potential for sounding a bit daft if you try too hard to mimic the accent. I think it sounds better if you speak a language however it comes naturally, so if it gives you a french accent then thats fine - unless you don't people to know you're french!!!(jk)
thing is, here in america we have different accents of english... you can tell where someone is from by how their accent is. the southe, north and west US all have different accents... and about forign accents... i find that a woman with an accent is kinda sexy... as far as accents go its all good.
@ Baylin : My aim is to speak as well as possible, because I don't like the french accent (when I speak english). That's why I wanted to know what do people think about it.
And No, I'm not ashamed to claim I'm French *murmurs* i'm french!!!
Women I'm sure think the same about accents as we do. I would try not to lose it. Becareful that others can understand you though. I do not like a southern Accent greatly though, but that is probably because where I am from it is so harsh sometimes.
My 2 cents.
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I think that happens in every country. The regions have different accents.
I have one my self I try to make myself clear but I don't hide it. I like the french accent. Its probably the coolest. It gives a certain charm
here in florida we have a heavy spanish speaking population and there are accent galore. i've become good at being able to tell the cuban accent vs. the puerto rican accent vs. the mexican accent vs. the spain accent... cubans usually have thick accents. puerto ricans have hardly any accent (they are practally the 51 state). but thats the advantage of living in sunny florida! i'm sure when i speak spanish i soung like a gringo.
Here in Canada, we speak like americans No texas or any kind of accent like that, just plain american accents. Of course there's the acception of saying "eh", and NO, we don't say "aboot" The only people that say "aboot" are people in Newfoundland ad the frenchies, hehe
It is just because if we don't try to pronounce it in an english way... about = aboot (french ou is the same phoneme as english oo , but slightly shorter)
Yeah but G.P. the accent is part of the charm of meeting foreign people. You should here me trying to speak french/italian (I'm less than useless with languages but I do try!) - I get the strangest looks cos I sound like a Brit from the north trying to be clever, and I invariably just confuse people!
anyone here from northern north dakota? if so ya'll know what a pain it is when your relatives from other states laugh cuz ya talk really fast an cut of the end of your words. some people even think i have a foreign accent, it may be a little canadian o streching but thats as foriegn as i get
I have a fetish for Scottish, Irish, British and Australian accents.
SA!! How true! I tend to say 'eh' quite a bit, and have slipped once or twice into saying 'aboot'.
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