ace_of_something said:
What amazes me is that this is the best thing I've found for American accents. Breaking it down in an understandable way for people.
Pretty sure they have one for the UK as well.
[a href=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmericanAccents]Yeah, it's TV tropes[/a]
Thank you for that. That was pretty hilarious. Especially for these quotes:
"Genuine Midwestern is now limited in area and may be endangered in the wild, as it has been encroached upon by Inland North from the Great Lakes, Southern from south and east, and Mountain from the west."
"While most of the Latinos in other states are from one or two areas (Mexicans in California, Puerto Ricans in New York), Florida has a huge mix of Central American, Caribbean and South American accents. God help you if you confuse them, especially Venezuelan for Peruvian or Colombian. And remember, Brazilians speak Portugese, not Spanish, as they will handily remind you numerous times."
The second one reminded me of one of the reasons I hated high school so much. We had so many central and south american kids from all sorts of countries that hated each other. Making any mistakes would get you a punch in the face or a lecture. Always a lecture if the kid was Brazilian. Sometimes you'd get lectured by the Brazilian kids even if you didn't say anything.