Comments on: Accent archive fun

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:49:11 +0000

It’s funny how quickly I start to naturally mimic an accent. If someone is speaking to me in a foreign or regional accent, my accent just unconsciously changes to match theirs. Once a friend of mine from New Jersey when we first met thought I was making fun of her, mocking her accent.

I have a naturally funny accent that causes people all the time to ask me where I’m from. I get guesses of everywhere, from New England to the Deep South to California, to Europe, and everywhere in between. My accent is a mixture of pretty much everywhere because my mom who taught me how to talk was raised in the Navy and picked up an “everywhere” accent and passed it on to me. When my husband met my mother he got a huge kick out of it because he’d never met anyone else that talked like me before, and her accent was exactly like mine.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:08:07 +0000

So far I’ve fooled people into thinking I’m German, British, French, Russian, Chinese, your sterotypical ranting African politian, and Antonio Banderas. Picking up the phone for me is always an adventure. Who can say for sure where I’ve learned these tongues but I use my real voice only half of the day.
I once tried to fool a group of Brits when I visited Seoul’s international shopping district, but unbeknownst to me what I thought was British was actually Aussie… I’ve tried to be more distinctive since then.
Jamie T, The Getaway, Guy Ritchie and the Orbitz Gum girl have certainly helped.

By: Elsa

Elsa — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:16:41 +0000

From living in Japan, I can do a decent impression of a Japanese person who can’t speak English very well speaking English. I just pronounce all of the words as if they were written in katakana and get rid of my intonation.

By: donner

donner — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:05:43 +0000

I LOVE accents, I try to mimic them all the time (I’m not an actor, just a weirdo)…I live in Texas, but can do Midwest pretty well, and British (dated a dude from the UK, some of it sunk in)…my friend is from BAHston and I love listening to her…I keep practicing my Brooklyn accent, but haven’t mastered it…the toughest ones are the most neutral – there’s nothing to grab onto, so to speak…

thanks ya’ll, this is groovy!

By: Courtney

Courtney — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:00:10 +0000

What a great website; I adore it! Thanks for posting it.

I’m a young aspiring actress and am attempting to be russian in a musical I’m doing. I was really pleased to find I sound pretty close to the examples of Russian-born women. And it helped me figure out certain consonant sounds I wasn’t sure how to make authentic. Awesome.

By: lindsay m

lindsay m — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:30:34 +0000

i can do a pretty convincing southern accent. especially if i’m hearing it on tv or someone around me has a southern accent. it really freaks my husband out though! he says i sound like i’m possessed because it’s so different from my usual west-coast accent.

By: david

david — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:58:22 +0000

Being an actor isnt THAT tough… your skin gets thicker as time progresses. ;-) Could be worse…I mean its not like there is a strike going on or anything… oh… wait.
drat.

thanks for the link

By: Aemi

Aemi — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:10:10 +0000

Somewhere I picked up the ability to do a decent British accent. Actually, I can do a range of decent British accents. Not sure how I learned it, though.

Also, when I’ve been speaking Spanish a lot, I speak English with a strong vaguely Mexican accent, though English is my native language. I can’t really help doing it, my mouth just gets used to those sounds.

Can’t do an Irish accent to save my life, and it makes me sad.