New York, Southern, an okay Canadian, a really good upper-class and cockney British, and an alright Irish.
What accent can you do best?
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Is "British" really an accent? We have like 8-10 different regional accents in the UK. To be fair, I think us Brits are guilty of that too saying "American accent" when you probably have a lot of regional accents, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH_kOjsXakM&feature=related
Bad quality but you get the idea. I can do almost all of those very well except the Scottish ones for some reason. Every other accent I'm terrible at and usually shoot way too far into the stereotypes.
E.G. Jamaican: "Eeeeyyyyyy 'mun, choon choon inta mali BOOM BOOM!"
Me and my friend (who is waaaay better at accents than I am) went to London for the day once and decided to pretend to be American all day...For some reason. It was hilarious when people asked us for directions and we stayed in character. Then on the subway we both turned into Italian-American Mafia types for no reason and slung death threats at eachother in earshot of about 20 people. Omigosh we're so wacky!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH_kOjsXakM&feature=related
Bad quality but you get the idea. I can do almost all of those very well except the Scottish ones for some reason. Every other accent I'm terrible at and usually shoot way too far into the stereotypes.
E.G. Jamaican: "Eeeeyyyyyy 'mun, choon choon inta mali BOOM BOOM!"
Me and my friend (who is waaaay better at accents than I am) went to London for the day once and decided to pretend to be American all day...For some reason. It was hilarious when people asked us for directions and we stayed in character. Then on the subway we both turned into Italian-American Mafia types for no reason and slung death threats at eachother in earshot of about 20 people. Omigosh we're so wacky!
Wait, how? You don't want the Swedish accent anyhow, it's horrible.SonofaJohannes said:
Well, I'm Swedish, so I can do a pretty good Swedish accent (royal). My German is good as well.
Other than that I'm pretty bad at accents just spontaneously, however, if I hear the accent before I can mimic it pretty well.
I'm reasonably good at a British accent with received pronunciation, I do it all the time.
Outside that, probably my Irish accent is best, but again I think that's because I have family in county Cork.
Outside that, probably my Irish accent is best, but again I think that's because I have family in county Cork.
Well, when I'm speaking the language, French. Otherwise Geordie, Mancunian, Stirling Scottish and I sometimes apparently slip into an American accent from what I'm told, don't know what part though.
I'm really good at a doing a really bad version of accents! Wait, that doesn't count.... DAMNIT!
I'm not good at accents. I suppose I could be if a I practice but I see no reason to do any voice beyond my own.
I'm not good at accents. I suppose I could be if a I practice but I see no reason to do any voice beyond my own.
It is horrible, so I started speaking british, and eventually it just became natural.GeorgW said:
I can do a pretty decent Australian accent. It's pretty stereotypical, and probably not endearing to any Aussies who hear it, but it's alright.
But my Jamie Oliver impersonation is golden. Seriously, I sound just like him when I do it right.
But my Jamie Oliver impersonation is golden. Seriously, I sound just like him when I do it right.
Well... apparently my Texan drawl, but that doesn't count because well hell I'm from Texas, other than that I'm told I can do a pretty damn good Irish accent. To be honest I just have to listen to someone talk for long enough and I can mimic the accent decent enough.
As I saw the thread title, I thought "inb4 'British accent'".
I then read through the thread a little, and immediately died inside.
OT: I can do a mean Edinburgh accent, South Wales Valleys (though I'll sometimes dip into a Brummie) accent, and a decent Yorkshire accent (though I don't know which type). So I suppose, along with my own very very faint West Country, I can also speak a 'British accent'.
Oh yeh, and I love to try my hand South African Nigel, no idea why, but i just flows so nicely.
I then read through the thread a little, and immediately died inside.
OT: I can do a mean Edinburgh accent, South Wales Valleys (though I'll sometimes dip into a Brummie) accent, and a decent Yorkshire accent (though I don't know which type). So I suppose, along with my own very very faint West Country, I can also speak a 'British accent'.
Oh yeh, and I love to try my hand South African Nigel, no idea why, but i just flows so nicely.
Im english, but i speak french too so i can the accent alright. 'Srow zat pees off sheet off ze roof!'
I can do a slightly American accent and a pretty good North-East England accent (i.e. Geordie) but for some reason I can't do a Yorkshire accent even though I'm from there.
Jeez, the amount of people here that keep saying they can do a "british" accent, there is no such thing as a british accent! You wouldn't say "I can do an American accent" because there isn't just one. In britain their is England, Scotland and Wales there, and even they are spilt up in different areas with different accents. No one can say that a Brummie (Birmingham) accent is the same as Estuary (South East and parts of London)
Being a quarter English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh means I can have a good crack at certain accents from those countries.
(For those who care about regionalisation, The English accent is either middle English (posh), Brummy or from the South-West (farmer) The Irish supposedly sounds like its from the Cork area, the Scottish sounds like it comes from around Dundee and the Welsh sounds like it's from Aberystwyth)
However, I can also do a very high quality Russian (managed to actually convince several people I was Russian by speaking in the accent for three hours) a passable South African and a a very weak generic American accent.
TL;DR: I can do accents me.
(For those who care about regionalisation, The English accent is either middle English (posh), Brummy or from the South-West (farmer) The Irish supposedly sounds like its from the Cork area, the Scottish sounds like it comes from around Dundee and the Welsh sounds like it's from Aberystwyth)
However, I can also do a very high quality Russian (managed to actually convince several people I was Russian by speaking in the accent for three hours) a passable South African and a a very weak generic American accent.
TL;DR: I can do accents me.