Your Accent

[Laddy]

How would you define your accent when speaking your first language? Has anyone considered it particularly noticeable?

I have a standard Midland American accent with some West Coast influence but I'm having a large amount of people notice English or French elements which is baffling to me, but considering I live in the South perhaps they're just getting their accents mixed up. I did some theater and broadcasting in high school and college which trained me to avoid anything overly regional developing.

[noxious.sunshine]

I used to have the most major Southern accent ever.

According to my dad, our accent is really specific to the area of TN that I'm originally from. I worked really hard to get rid of it in high school though b/c I got made fun of over it often.

I didn't really think I had one anymore, but since I've moved to NYC it's always really obvious that I'm not a native when I talk.

It comes and goes. It gets more pronounced when I'm drunk tho xD

[Psychotic]

I have what I consider to be a generic English accent, though not RP/BBC. I live in the middle of the country and so I have random features from different accents, so it's sort of hybrid in a way. As examples, I mostly (but sometimes switch!) use the short "a" sound (think jam) in words like grass and bath which is very much a northern feature. But then I also use the glottal stop and drop the t at the end of words like "what" and "not" which is a southern Estuary English London accent feature - think David Tennant's Doctor Who. People have a great deal of difficulty in placing what part of the country I'm from, which is amusing to me

[Pheesh]

It's Australian but not ocka, don't know how else to explain it.

[Shauna]

My accent is pretty Glaswegian-lite, if you can dare to imagine such a thing. Not nearly as nasally and rough sounding as a true Glaswegian accent, since I was raised to speak proper.

[Shorty]

Standard Western American, I'd say.

[Old Manus]

I have a pretty distinct South Wales accent, though it's nowhere near as thick as what you'd find if you were to go deep into the valleys, where I guarantee most people would struggle to understand a word of it.

[Sir Krelian]

I would say it sounds more like a prolonged belch than an accent.

[Loony BoB]

Just u stundurd Nuw Zuulund uc.

UDUT: Huhuhu, fultur.

[escobert]

I have a very slight Vermont accent. the Vermont accent is pretty much dead though. I think once my grandfather generation dies, it'll be basically gone.

[Fynn]

Can't really talk about Polish accents, since the language is really monolithic, but my English accent can be generally described as "American". I was taught early by New Yorkers, and then I had some more standard training during my studies, and then I did a lot of research on Southern accents, so that influenced me as well. A friend of mine that spent most of her life in the US said I sound Canadian

[sharkythesharkdogg]

I sound like a nerd.

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

Obviously, I don't have an accent.

[Night Fury]

Geordie with an Aussie twang, but people often think I sound Romanian or South African.

[Kalevala]

This, according to Shorty.