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-- Posted by polgas733 at 7:18 pm on Sep. 26, 2008

pls watch this video of me speaking in american accent and tell me what you guys think.. Ive never been to america before..
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=uPrL5RYXQwI

some say im neutral... is that good or bad?


-- Posted by Pendulum at 7:19 pm on Sep. 26, 2008

My scottish is better.


-- Posted by misscharity at 7:19 pm on Sep. 26, 2008

You dont even sound like an american.


-- Posted by Dylan6405 at 7:20 pm on Sep. 26, 2008

That is a decent american accent  


-- Posted by polish princess at 7:22 pm on Sep. 26, 2008

You don't have an American accident, you sound middle eastern to me.


-- Posted by panicxparadox at 7:22 pm on Sep. 26, 2008

The south Florida area, I sense Latino.


-- Posted by silverbullets at 7:22 pm on Sep. 26, 2008

Quote: from misscharity at 10:19 pm on Sep. 26, 2008


You dont even sound like an american.

this.


-- Posted by polgas733 at 7:23 pm on Sep. 26, 2008

lol somesay i kinda sound spanish.. lol


-- Posted by Shaknbake at 9:21 pm on Sep. 26, 2008

Sounds mostly General American. You cut most of your syllables too short (so it sounds choppy), and your stress is wrong throughout.

As an example of some stress/pronunciation mistakes (ignore the spelling, it's just to show pronunciation, and the ^ shows the stressed syllable):
Sov-rin-ty, not soverêignty. Pôtentate, not potêntate. "ând that," not "and thât." Rezervation, not resservation. "where-uv," not "whereoff."

Just a year or two ago I watched my Aunt swearing that oath for her citizenship.


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