Accents

I have british combined with vietnamese/chinese accent... I really hate it

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Nall

Being American, US accents are about all I"m exposed to. I'd be interested to hear about accents in other countries, too.



Aw, don't say that. When I made the thread, I was interested to see if other people were self-conscious about their accents like me. I don't hate my speech at all, but sometimes I feel like that's what people are hearing more than my words. Southerners tend to have the stereotype of being dumb hicks, and it always kinda stayed in the back of my mind when I spoke to someone who wasn't from my area. I'm definitely in a different 'mode' when I'm not around my family, placing other words in my speech to sound less like a yokel.

But you know what? I'm unique. We're unique. I have an accent that you don't hear every day on TV or radio (unless it's John Boy, but, who listens to him who isn't southern?), and I've learned to live with it. I work with some Vietnamese, and I don't find their accents bad. They're a little shaky around some consonant sounds, but they can speak and express themselves just as well as anyone else. If you're articulate enough, people won't care what you sound like anyway. That goes for anyone else, too.

Someone told me I sounded like a typical american. But I think he lied... :O

There's nowhere I can't reach.