What accent do you have?

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Australian.

People not from Australia seem to dig it, lol.

Minnesotan ya betcha

but lots of people have asked me what country I come from. . . so maybe it might be my imagination.

british.. its been likened to shirr khan of jungle book... so kinda 'stiff uper lip'

Anybody speaks with proper local accent?

No.

I even got interrogated by a cop once, he stopped me for something else, I was driving a car with UK plates in Canada with a US drivers license and passport, and he asked me where I was from. He didn't believe me when I said New York, and seemed disturbed that I had a US passport. But there was nothing he could do, my papers were straight.

can you say how the australian broadcast standard english [accent] differs from kiwi?

I have a slight stoke-on-trent accent, because that's where I live. The older adults of my family have a strong accent especially one of my great uncles he uses all the old fashioned stoke dialect and I can't always tell what he's on about lol.

I have a Kiwi accent. I'm from the North Island of New Zealand, but people think I'm from the South Island. I have a South Island accent because I got it from my mother who got it from her mother who was born in the south.

listening to actress alison routledge in the film "the quiet earth" i couldn't help but notice that, to my ears, her accent didn't sound a whole lot different from australian broadcast standard. is there a big difference or are the differences too subtle for outsiders to discern?

I was surprised by how "posh" English my accent is. It's still got heavy overtones of Northern English and Irish in there, but overall, I sound far more plummy than I'd expected. An American would probably think I was English. A Northern English person generally guesses me to be Irish, the Irish generally think I'm posh English, Southerners tend to think I'm Northern.

The only languages I have a good accent in are Russian and Irish. I'm doomed...

It seems that most people from other countries can't tell the difference. Australians talk with more of a "twang" than New Zealanders, and we say chance, dance, prance etc differently. There are also other things that help to tell the difference between the two accents but those are the easiest two to describe.

i wonder if it would be easy for somebody from AUS/NZ to discern the difference between a texan and a [ usa] georgian?

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I learned Russian alphabet myself and I'd like to learn this language. I understand the words but I sound like "khhhh khhhh!" - there are too many frontal sounds for me!

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If you go to the bottom of the page you'll see a link to a free trial, so you can see if it's for you. If it is, these courses are widely available at your library, so you wouldn't have to pay.

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For me it would be impossible. The only difference I can tell in american accents is vast ones like someone from New York compared to another from Alabama.