Do You Like Or Dislike Your Own Accent?

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
What accent do you have when you speak the other language?

When I speak English, I speak with a Chicano accent (Mexican-American talk). But when I speak Spanish, I speak with a Norteño accent (a person from Northwestern Mexico), which sounds very different from Castillian Spanish, as well as other kinds of regional Mexican Spanish.

So what about you?

I speak English with a suburban New Jersey accent and can affect a terrible English RP accent or a fairly good Irish brogue.

I stumble through Spanish with an "kid who was forced to take a several years of foreign language with awful teachers and never really cared" accent, but seriously its probably more like it's spoken in Spain than South America since the "ll" is "y" rather than "j".

My Japanese teacher was from Osaka so my pronunciation of Japanese words (I can't even string a sentence together) likely has a Kansai accent.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I speak English with a suburban New Jersey accent and can affect a terrible English RP accent or a fairly good Irish brogue.

I stumble through Spanish with an "kid who was forced to take a several years of foreign language with awful teachers and never really cared" accent, but seriously its probably more like it's spoken in Spain than South America since the "ll" is "y" rather than "j".

My Japanese teacher was from Osaka so my pronunciation of Japanese words (I can't even string a sentence together) likely has a Kansai accent.

So your teacher was a Spaniard, and not Latino?

I can hold a decent conversation in Japanese, which I picked up while I was in the service. The Okinawan variety.

I speak English with a pretty bog standard British accent. I sound like I'm from the South East, despite being from the South West.

I speak Turkish with a rural South West accent, as I learnt most of what I know in a small fishing village called Gümüslük which is in the Aegean region.

I hate my accent for sure. Try to change it better.

i don't like my accent

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
So your teacher was a Spaniard, and not Latino?

No, at some point the public schools where I live decided to pick one pronunciation and stick with it.

I like my accent, it's just the pitch of my voice I'm not keen on. Apparently I sound lovely, but to me I have a high squeeky voice, especially when I'm nervous.