What's on your mind?

[Hime-Chan]

@ Shiromi: I'd something close to American standard pronunciation? Your voice is really clear, but the way you speak your R is very american!

@Brycec: yeaaaah, we French people don't have the best reputation when learning languages, which is due to our school system, and our government has been dispassionate about languages for decades. They seem to think that the only way to learn a language is through grammar...
Although, I do believe in making an effort while visiting a country you do not speak the language.
I have no idea how people on my little corner of France do, because we're "invaded" by the Dutch every summer, and yet, there isn't much to help them, considering how bad the French are with English in Southern countryside...

[mangaluva]

My dad has a very Morningside accent, which makes sense since he went to a pretty posh secondary school. Mum's accent is still very American, though, since she grew up in Oklahoma. We lived in Oklahoma until I was four, so I still have a lot of Okie twangs on top of a Baronshill accent with a lot of Leither slang that I've picked up in recent years. Basically, I sound weird XDXDXD

I don't know if any nationalities are particularly good or bad about learning English, since I've met tourists of all fluencies from most countries, although I've noted that French tourists and middle-aged Chinese people sometimes seem actually offended at being spoken to in English.

@Shiromi: you sound very American.

[Memesu]

Markiplier stream \o/

[MoonRaven]

antidote... it's honestly a red and yellow pill!

[MoonRaven]

I got it for an acne I have had on my back for a while. It's... I simply can't believe it has such colors.

[MoonRaven]

I try.
I don't see them as funny. I think them ridiculous. Thankfully it goes quickly to may stomach when I take it with water.

[Ekoyuhale]

The thing though is that there are countries, such France, according to extended family that went there, will not be willing to help you if you do not know their language, though they may give you points for trying. I would probably do better visiting places like Australia, England, and New Zealand, where English is at least somewhat official, but as far as the Internet is concerned, English is definitely common.

From my experiences in France, they're happier to help you if you start out in French, and once you can't go on, ask them if they speak English... in French xD In Paris the answer was almost alway yes.

If you come demanding things of them in English, well, anyone would be bitter if someone wandered up to them and started speaking to you in a language different from the country's native one, fully expecting you to just go with it, then getting huffy when you don't =V (I'm sure most everyone here knows that, I just wanted to point it out xD )

[Ekoyuhale]

Ekoyuhale, yeah, if ask on their language... Then speak English)

Yep yep, that's the way to do it!

[MoonRaven]

about four hours until the phase change in mafia...

[Iwamoto Yuri]

In a few minutes Doctor Who starts and I can't wait .;,3:&2&?dhv6.&2).0hgsl!8!€:&€4

[Hime-Chan]

In a few minutes Doctor Who starts and I can't wait .;,3:&2&?dhv6.&2).0hgsl!8!€:&€4

YESYESYESYES

Hime, learn languages!)) Be conservative is not always good...

I'm so glad I wasn't drinking when I read that

[Kaito Lady]

In a few minutes Doctor Who starts and I can't wait .;,3:&2&?dhv6.&2).0hgsl!8!€:&€4

oh dear, I won't be able to see it until tomorrow D:

*shuts herself in at some abandoned place to avoid spoilers until then*

[Shiromi]

@Shiromi: I think you sound a bit American, an the rolled rs, lol.

@ Shiromi: I'd something close to American standard pronunciation? Your voice is really clear, but the way you speak your R is very american!

@Shiromi: you sound very American.

Yup, I'm an American. I speak the North-Western dialect of American English (I've lived in Montana most of my life. Contrary to popular opinion, Montanans don't sound like Texans. We sound like we're from Washington state), which is very close to the standardized American English dialect used for newscasters on TV. That's why my voice sounds "clear" - it's more that I'm speaking a dialect that more people are familiar with than the quality of my voice.

There's only one big difference between my speech and the TV-news speech - my dialect has one less vowel. My dialect doesn't differentiate between "ah" and "aw", so words like "cot" vs "caught" sound the same when I say them.

And my trouble with R-rolling: I was born with a bound tongue, which means a flap of skin connected my tongue to the floor of my mouth all the way to the end. I couldn't lift or stick my tongue out at all, affecting my speech in several ways: my Ts, Ds, and Ns are articulated off the backs of my teeth, instead of off my alveolar ridge, and all of my Ls are velar (sometimes called a "dark" L, it's made in the back of your mouth and usually found in Ls at the ends of words in English) instead of off the alveolar ridge. I couldn't do the Alveolar tap at all - the sound that replaces a T or D between vowels, also the sound that is the Japanese R - so I used a post-dental D instead. The flap of skin wasn't cut until I was 14 - too late to learn how to roll an R with any ease. I've trained hard though, and I can now make the Alveolar tap! The Alveolar tap is actually really, really close to a rolled R, so I've been using studying Japanese to get closer to being able to roll Rs fluently. That and singing along to Norwegian folk-rock.

Sorry about the impromptu lecture on phonetics...

Other people should post stuff where we can here you speak, because comparing dialects is fun!

[kkslider5552000]

tbh, I could not tell you what accent I have. Best case, I could describe is as dull Boston-like accent but otherwise...eh...

And I've been listening to my words for an entire day's worth in the past couple of months so I should know and yet...*shrugs*

Do you know what it is?!

My pronunciation is genuinely bothering me lately. Whenever I talk at a decent speed I sometimes just randomly say "hype it" to letters for no reason. Especially the letter d. I have an apparent grudge against it sometimes.

also if people need to ask where they can hear me speak, ://///////

[Jecka]

Other people should post stuff where we can here you speak, because comparing dialects is fun!

:O That'd be interesting! But I'd be way too shy .///.