What do people from other countries think of the American accent?
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What do people from other countries think of the American accent?
When rated by other countries, American accents are most likely to be described as “friendly” (34\%), “straight-forward” (27\%) and “assertive” (20\%).
Why do American accents sound weird?
An important reason why American English and British English sound different is rhotacism, the change of a particular sound in a language. Americans kept their rhotic American accent—for the most part. Port cities on the East Coast, especially in New England, had a lot of contact with the R-less Brits.
What is the hardest accent to learn?
The Great British accent proved to be the most difficult of all the accents to imitate – along with the regional Yorkshire and Cockney pronunciations, in particular.
What are the different types of American accents?
Besides which there are of course dozen of American accents as has been stated above, Nu Yoik (Brooklyn), Southern, Texan, California-mall drawl, and that funny mid-western scandinavian accent as featured in Fargo. To be honest they all sound allright to me…
Do you ever hear American accents in movies?
Due to the preponderance of American accents in film, on tv and in music I frequently don’t ebven hear American accents – only when in juxtaposition with another.
Why is American English so different from other languages?
It is much more flows like a waterfalls, because English doesn’t have hard pronounced letters. Almost none. My born in US daughter speaks Russian much softer then I do, because it is her second language. So, I would say American English is very pleasant for the ear (and I have absolute musical ear).
Does Russian sound like German to you?
It is definitelly does not sound like German… It is much more flows like a waterfalls, because English doesn’t have hard pronounced letters. Almost none. My born in US daughter speaks Russian much softer then I do, because it is her second language.