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I have to make a call in English...
Replies: 10 — Last Post July 11 3:39am by MaryLin
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I always feel kinda reluctant when it comes to making a call to a person I don't really know, and more over, if the call has to be in a foreign language. You understand what I mean?
Now I have to make a call to a flight company and attempt my best British accent because I automatically do that for some reason... I seriously don't know why I am feeling so reluctant. It's weird for me to talk to someone I don't know and not see them...

Edit: my accent is not fake. I'm not a native speaker and originally I have been taught to speak British English. I can do both American and British.

Post edited at 2:53 am on July 10, 2009 by MaryLin

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Don't do a fake accent.

It will be obvious and they'll just think you're a weirdo.

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what accent are you adopting? cockney? scoucer? geordie? cornish? Glasweigan?


some British accents are pretty fucking hard to understand. I wouldn't worry about it.

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me too, minus the accent part. I hate talking on the phone.

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Just speak normally, accents just make you sound dumb if they're not your real ones...

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It's weird that I adopt the whatever accent the person is talking to me. The people at that flight company speak British accent so when I received a call from there I automatically switched to British English too. That's the only reason.

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Quote: from ElephantStone at 10:48 am on July 10, 2009
what accent are you adopting? cockney? scoucer? geordie? cornish? Glasweigan?

 
some British accents are pretty fucking hard to understand. I wouldn't worry about it.

Probably the typical posh completely fake "British accent"

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Quote: from MaryLin at 7:52 pm on July 10, 2009
It's weird that I adopt the whatever accent the person is talking to me. The people at that flight company speak British accent so when I received a call from there I automatically switched to British English too. That's the only reason.

I do that all the time, sometimes it gets really awkward too  

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Woo! I did it.



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come on, you're calling to somewhere between the Netherlands and Belgium, I bet they won't care much about a particular accent! ;)

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Yea, the lady spoke quite a natural accent so I did my regular American. :)


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