How would you characterize the accent of the actress from this clip?

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Where would you place it geographically? Would you say she’s a native speaker? Link below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/languagehub/comments/1pxn0h8/how_would_you_characterize_the_accent_of_the_girl

 

[probus]

I'd call it a pretty standard AmE accent . It could be from many parts of the USA. She sounds to me like a native speaker.

 

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I'd call it a pretty standard AmE accent . It could be from many parts of the USA. She sounds to me like a native speaker.

Then it will probably surprise you that she is Polish and not a native speaker at all. I asked this question because I was wondering if others - in particular native speakers - can notice a Slavic undercurrent in her pronunciation.

 

[güey]

Do you know what her background is? She doesn't look particularly Western Slavic. Has she ever lived in the US, by any chance?

 

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Do you know what her background is? She doesn't look particularly Western Slavic. Has she ever lived in the US, by any chance?

She's a voice actress and an English teacher. Her name is typically Polish and I don't know anything about her ethnic background, but to my eye she doesn't fall outside the norm of how a western Slav could look like. Perhaps it's the lighting that makes her complexion look somewhat darker. Her publicly available biography doesn't suggest that she has ever lived in the US, at least for any extended period of time.

 

[jutfrank]

I was wondering if others - in particular native speakers - can notice a Slavic undercurrent in her pronunciation.

Possibly very faintly in two or three places, yes.

 

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Possibly very faintly in two or three places, yes.

If it's only very faint and occassional to a native speaker's ear, then I guess it's fair to say that her phonetic skills are very decent.

 

[jutfrank]

Yes, certainly. I would guess that she's been exposed to a lot of American English from quite an early age. Perhaps she moved to the States with her family when she was a child.