What accent is that?

[patran]

Dear teachers

Are these two guys speaking good English in the perspective of English language teachers? What kind of accent are they speaking with?

What accent is that? - YouTube

Regards

Anthony

 

[susiedq]

I hear a lack of the "r" sound. ("fow' instead of "for')

Slight Taiwanese.

 

[birdeen's call]

I don't hear the Taiwanese thing. They sound American to me.

 

[shannico]

I doubt they are American.

 

[patran]

In general, do you think their English is good? They soon native? Good accent for non-native speaker to learn?

 

[Barb_D]

I thought they sounded American, but there was a weird thing with some of their vowel sounds that I can't put my finger on.

 

[birdeen's call]

I thought they sounded American, but there was a weird thing with some of their vowel sounds that I can't put my finger on.

I agree but I think if I'd listened to them without paying attention to pronunciation I wouldn't have noticed anything strange. And even if I would, I would probably have thought it was just some random thing, which happens to native speakers. The reason is I think that these oddities don't seem to be regular. But I'm not sure. The second guy's pronunciation seems to have less of this.

Patran, their English is definitely very good. If not native, then native-level.

 

[5jj]

I agree but I think if I'd listened to them without paying attention to pronunciation I wouldn't have noticed anything strange. And even if I [STRIKE]would[/STRIKE] had, I would probably have thought it was just some random thing.

Typo.

 

[Tdol]

In general, do you think their English is good? They soon native? Good accent for non-native speaker to learn?

To all intents and purposes, they're speaking at native speaker level- there are one or two strange vowel sounds from time to time- check out the way the second guy says possible when he starts speaking, but it is not intrusive and if they have learned English as a second language and got to this level, then kudos to them. :up: