Rate my GenAm accent and guess where I'm from? Show your accent detection skills

[Kenvn]

[FONT=bariol_regularregular]I'd like to think my accent game is pretty good... It'd be interesting to see what other people think, especially Americans... Bonus point to whoever can correctly guess where I was born and raised.

Reading out loud:

[/FONT]https://vocaroo.com/i/s00yKrB4KfBf

Impromptu recording:

https://vocaroo.com/i/s0slqJ5sEKMy

 

[emsr2d2]

Some people might play the game but you need to assure us that once it's over, you will correct the information in your Member Profile.

 

[Kenvn]

Some people might play the game but you need to assure us that once it's over, you will correct the information in your Member Profile.

Sounds fair. I'll make sure to do that.

 

[jutfrank]

I think you were born and raised in Hertfordshire, UK, and you've been practising your US accents watching westerns. Am I right?

 

[Kenvn]

I think you were born and raised in Hertfordshire, UK, and you've been practising your US accents watching westerns. Am I right?

Nope! Not a native English speaker, at all. Also... I don't know why I get this western accent when I read haha, I just happen to tap into my inner narrator. I have a very generic standard American accent in more conversational settings.

 

[Tdol]

It sounds a bit WestWorld intro to me. It isn't that clear where you're from, so you do not have an identifiable accent, but it doesn't come across as native AmE to me.

 

[GoesStation]

I thought he was a native speaker of American English, though I didn't listen to the whole recording. I couldn't place the accent to a region. A lot of American English speakers speak with a neutral accent that's untraceable by most listeners.

 

[jutfrank]

Scandinavia? Sweden?

 

[Do228]

Mexico

 

[PHenry1026]

It this is on the up-and-up, my guess is that your parents are either Americans or Canadians and you grew up in a foreign country; they were diplomats or military?

 

[jutfrank]

Your mother was part Cherokee, part Han Chinese and your father was a Spanish vacuum cleaner salesman. You were born in Tuvalu but emigrated to Kosovo when you were just three years old. Fleeing from violence, your family moved to Santa Rosa, Texas, where you spent your formative years and perfected your US accent. Now you live on Barry Island, South Wales, where you work as a careers advisor and mentor to underprivileged kids.

If that's not right, I give up.

 

[suikerbossie]

Born and grew up in South America. Brazil, Venezuela ?? Studied in the USA somewhere....

 

[emsr2d2]

Both links seem to lead to the same clip so we can't listen to the impromptu one. I'd have said you were a native AmE speaker though I wouldn't have been able to say where from - there's a bit of what I call "southern twang" to it, but I'm not familiar enough with specific North American accents to try to pinpoint it.

 

[tzfujimino]

I think you're a non-native speaker of English who is quite good at mimicking. Please try a British accent and let us hear it.

 

[Kenvn]

I think you're a non-native speaker of English who is quite good at mimicking. Please try a British accent and let us hear it.

Here's one: https://vocaroo.com/i/s0VgyzKu2KAC

First time I record myself speaking British English. Never paid much attention to it and never really had proper exposure to RP(?) or British English in general aside from your run-of-the-mill fantasy films and Game of Thrones. It's probably not very good, but, yeah... Also, I'm from Sweden. Somebody on the previous page made the right guess.

 

[emsr2d2]

I only listened to the first 45 seconds or so but that's a pretty impressive stab at an English accent. There were a few American twangs, a couple of mispronunciations ("brooch" for example) and one word (I can't remember which now) that sounds Australian but, all in all, very well done.

I have to say that the Swedish people I've met in the past have all had a great command of English and some of them had little trace of an accent. Must be a national talent!

As previously requested, now that the game is over, please correct all the information in your member profile. Thanks.

 

[jutfrank]

First time I record myself speaking British English. Never paid much attention to it and never really had proper exposure to RP(?) or British English in general aside from your run-of-the-mill fantasy films and Game of Thrones. It's probably not very good, but, yeah... Also, I'm from Sweden. Somebody on the previous page made the right guess.

Ha! I said Sweden! What do I win?

By the way, your British accent is excellent. You have an approximately middle-class, well-articulated, southern English sound, with only very occasional and slight lapses into American pronunciation. Damn you Swedes for being way too talented with languages!

How about you try one more for our entertainment? Australian, Canadian, or South African?

 

[GoesStation]

OP, if you can pull off the subtle differences between your American accent and a Canadian one, I will personally fax you a Molson. Apologies in advance if it's flat when it arrives.

 

[Tdol]

Here's one: https://vocaroo.com/i/s0VgyzKu2KAC

First time I record myself speaking British English.

For a first time try, it is very impressive. It sounds like an American actor doing a reasonable British accent. Try a Cockney accent next. If you can do leave it out like Captain Jack Sparrow, you will be a star. :up: