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[sergiomonty]

Sergio can be serious?

Just as much as you can be clever.

[MrBadGuy]

What like totally gangsta accents?
I'm not going to try and type what I think that is for fear of being labelled a racist.

This is how most people sound here http://youtu.be/uB4osSd2bdk .

So they all sound like they're doing a parody of PSY? That sucks I really feel for you.

Also, this just reminded me of how old Gangnam Style is... I feel old now

[Zikken]

Nooo I meant the accent the guy has oh my god. This was a parody of it yes but with the guy that did a huge protestation against how much you need to pay for college and university, I don't know how it ended though. Lot of shit happened that year.

[Master]

Hm, yeah, I guess that rings true, I'm prone to saying things I don't wholly understand or saying words incorrectly, for the same reasons. Accent-wise, I'm not sure, I don't think I have the regional accent, but I do sometime slip into their ways of saying things.

I'm prone to speaking quietly and assuming that other people will be able to hear me. I often have to make a conscious effort to raise my voice, which isn't something that comes naturally to me. I also tend to get muddled and slur a couple of words when I overthink what I'm saying, which always makes me feel like an idiot, especially in important conversations.

Hm, I can be rather quiet when speaking at times, though seeing as I have a relative who's hard of hearing, raising my voice is something I have to do from time to time, though I don't think I feel it's like me to do so. I can stutter and talk a bit too fast at times, which can lead me to go blank, but seeing as I don't really talk with vigour to anyone but my closer relations, I don't feel bad for doing so.

[MrBadGuy]

I'm usually relatively quiet, although I've been told that at a certain concert at my old school I could be heard from the stage. To be fair they supplied us with wine which hardly deserved to be labelled as wine. And the quality of the music was at about the same level as the wine.

[Keane]

More of a quiet guy around my family.

Here everyone sound like they are about to start rapping in the middle of the street. I don't know about me, I got so used to write in English that I can't even think in my native tongue anymore and it changed a bit my accent but I don't even know, I rarely hear my own voice because I barely talk.

Haha I think in English at this point. I believe my accent is a bit more toned down now after plenty time in the US.

[Zikken]

I accidentally slip English words in what I say and everyone in the family gets confused.

[GNineify]

It's come to the point where I think almost entirely in English. Heck, I'm not surprised if my English skills have surpassed my Finnish skills. I wonder if it would've been a better idea to go to an English high school...

[Adsolution]

My voice is generally quite loud, so in the past I've had to make a conscious effort to turn it down. Now I'm fine with that though.

My online speak isn't all too similar to my real-life speak, though they do bear a mild resemblance. I speak extremely casually in person, and since I have trouble formulating my thoughts into words on the spot, I tend to avoid conversations that require that sort of thing constantly. On the odd occasion though, I'll have absolutely no troubke translating my thoughts quickly, and that's when I save my explanations for.

As for my accent, I'm not entirely sure how to identify it given that I don't live in the UK and I'm not accustomed to the naming scheme or homes of particular accents (beyond what I've heard about in videos here and there), but I'd say that it's mostly British. Where I live, much of the population is British and Australian, so those tend to get mixed in with the regular Canadian accent as well. Even though my family all have Canadian accents, since I barely spent time with them around when I was learning English, I picked up a different accent. Unfortunately, my mother wants me to speak in a Canadian accent, which I can do equally as well now since that's who I'm around half the time I speak. I plan to stick with the British-esque one though, as it for some reason lets me speak clearer an with a larger vocabulary.

[Bzzit]

My accent is a weird hybrid of both North and South. Most of the people I know at college have really distinctive Mackem or Geordie accents, but I know a few people that live near me who have peculiar mixed accents like myself.

[Master]

I once met a fellow with a thick northern accent, blimey was it hard to comprehend.

[Bzzit]

Haha, I hear that on a daily basis, I've gotten used to it over the years though. I have a tendency to use a lot of Northen slang which can sound a bit weird at times when I say it.

[Adsolution]

It's amusing how that even though the US is probably twenty or thirty times the size of the UK, the accent varies an extraordinarily small amount in comparison. America has their... Southern and their Northern accents. Quite different, yes, though not nearly comparable to the difference between every little variation on the Brit accent.

[GNineify]

I have no idea about my accent. It's basically American, British and Finnish accents mixed in one strange mess.

[Keane]

I accidentally slip English words in what I say and everyone in the family gets confused.

Ha, all of my family does that. Whenever we meet other people we tend to forget that and confuse them.

It's come to the point where I think almost entirely in English. Heck, I'm not surprised if my English skills have surpassed my Finnish skills. I wonder if it would've been a better idea to go to an English high school...

I don't think I can participate in the Dutch thread anymore as I have no idea how to spell just about anything, although oddly enough I can read it perfectly fine. I especially noticed it yesterday when I was at another community trying to explain to a fellow Dutchman we were English only and he asked me if I was using Google Translate.

My online speak isn't all too similar to my real-life speak, though they do bear a mild resemblance. I speak extremely casually in person, and since I have trouble formulating my thoughts into words on the spot, I tend to avoid conversations that require that sort of thing constantly. On the odd occasion though, I'll have absolutely no trouble translating my thoughts quickly, and that's when I save my explanations for.

I'd be nice if we could sit back and think about what we say and revise our word choice in real life.

As for my accent, I'm not entirely sure how to identify it given that I don't live in the UK and I'm not accustomed to the naming scheme or homes of particular accents (beyond what I've heard about in videos here and there), but I'd say that it's mostly British. Where I live, much of the population is British and Australian, so those tend to get mixed in with the regular Canadian accent as well. Even though my family all have Canadian accents, since I barely spent time with them around when I was learning English, I picked up a different accent. Unfortunately, my mother wants me to speak in a Canadian accent, which I can do equally as well now since that's who I'm around half the time I speak. I plan to stick with the British-esque one though, as it for some reason lets me speak clearer an with a larger vocabulary.

I have to think more about what I say in English because if I talk too long it all turns into gibberish. I can't really decide whether my accent is thick or not; there's people who can barely understand me and people who don't even know I'm not a native English speaker.

[Bzzit]

It's amusing how that even though the US is probably twenty or thirty times the size of the UK, the accent varies an extraordinarily small amount in comparison. America has their... Southern and their Northern accents. Quite different, yes, though not nearly comparable to the difference between every little variation on the Brit accent.

Haha this is so true. About a month a friend of a friend who lives merely an hour away came up from Yorkshire and her accent was so very different. She sounded like a female version of Wallace from Wallace and Gromit. I really wish I had that accent.

[Zikken]

I have to think more about what I say in English because if I talk too long it all turns into gibberish. I can't really decide whether my accent is thick or not; there's people who can barely understand me and people who don't even know I'm not a native English speaker.

I'm not a native English speaker either, I probably suck at speaking it as a whole.

[Master]

I don't really know what accent I have, if any for that matter, and whereabouts it'd be from, hailing from London, I'd expect to have a Cockney accent, but seeing as I was in the north when I was beginning to talk, and have been raised there, I have none whatsoever.

[sonicbrawler182]

I'm only joking about talking like a Dub. I do that in jest sometimes, though.

People tell me I have a strong American accent, though I have no American relatives or anything, nor have I ever been to America. I'm Irish.
It's not uncommon for me to randomly put on voices, though. I love voice acting, and while I don't think I'm great at it, the only way to get better is to practice whenever possible. Some people think I should become a regular voice actor, though.

[Rulez]

I have a ridiculous Polish accent and tend to make words shorter, i.e. Megmn instead of Megaman (isn't that right, Adsolution?). I'm not terrible at improvising and talking, but sometimes I want to say too much at once before all the thoughts escape me and I kinda go "and sometidie, heee othe, uh, I mean...", which is pretty embarassing.