What are the most distinctive american accents?
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Definitely the southern accent is the most noticeable, and has plenty of its own words and culture to back it up.  Even that is split up between different areas - Texas, Louisiana, and Florida included. They stretch out their words longer.\n\nFollowing that, the Northeastern accents - Boston, New York, Philadelphia and the like. They tend to say their o's differently at least in Philadelphia, and Boston they drop their r's. The TV show Law and Order shows examples of New York accents.\n\nLastly, the Midwestern accents, which are a mix of Scandinavian and Canadian influences into American English.  One movie that shows this well is "Drop Dead Gorgeous."
710990
Not sure...but it seems that Americans like Australian accents....don't think it's a good thing actually :/
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I am british and we hear your accent the same as you do, its just we are not used to it so we know you are from america, its because we are so accustomed to our own accent that when we hear others we find them different and strange.
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British is good (and there are so many), Irish and French. Pretty much anything exotic, which automatically excludes the accents around you, so being in California, it definitely excludes American (all regions) and Spanish as they are so common.\n\nAlso, I guess German never works, exotic or not.
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I've been told by Germans that Americans sound like they've got potatoes in their mouths when they're talking.  You could try that - if your mouth is big enough :).  Otherwise, it's very difficult to acquire an American accent, even if you've lived in the US for several years (although I know of a Lithuanian who has an American accent and he only lived in the US for two years).  I would say just make sure you enunciate well and be happy with your interesting accent.
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Sounds like scottish, Irish, German, or maybe even english.
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Yes, i do esp a british accent and italian accent. very sexy. when i was stationed overseas i had italian guys just speaking to me in italian and i couldnt understand them, but i loved the accent.
940918
We dont have an accent....we all sound the same. It's Americans (who all sound different) who have the accent.
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Floridian people have accents?!\nOmg, do I really have an accent?\nYAYNESS!\nIt's good, Florida's accent is so much "hotter"\n:)
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Scot, Welsh, and English mixed with native American.  I speak  English mixed  with some Spanish.  How can one pick what's best?
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britanica,lexicon,americana
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Have you guys been to Liverpool? Merseyside accent sounds american when singing.
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1. You are proper and unoffensive.\n\n2. You have adorable accents.\n\n3. You have lovely bone china. I did buy a full tea service from Royal Albert -- gorgeous! (But for dinner, I went for the Limoges.)\n\n4. You enjoy tea. Americans assiciate tea with England, even though it's not produced there. (Hardly anyone associates the Far East with tea.) And the simple pouring of tea is fascinating, probably because Americans are generally unfamiliar with it, having had coffee for so long. Even though every stratum of society in England drinks tea, Americans associate aristocracy and good fortune with it. Also, to an American, there is only black, green, and "herbal" tea, whereas an Englishman is familiar with quite a large selection of teas.\n\n5. You make beautiful automobiles, but you need a good electrician on the plant. I owned a Jaguar, and now I have a Land Rover. The Land Rover rolled over and just about killed me, but I still think that the style of its body has a certain charm that other well-running European cars have never had. \n\n6. Although according to European culinary standards, you could loosen up and be more creative in the kitchen, we Americans are much like you, so we can relate to you. All I know is that you like ale, batter fried fish and chips, with vinegar. (That is what the English pubs in the US serve.) The vinegar is quite shocking to an American, but intriguing too. (We use lemon juice.) Also, your understanding of beer is much greater than that of a typical American. We try, but all we know is one variety -- beer. You could probably intimidate an American with your knowledge of beer styles.\n\n7. I think that you wear shockingly bold colors for such an understated people (no subtlety there), but you can still be quiet with that boldness somehow.\n\n8. We romanticize the Royal Family -- it's something that we normally just read about in storybook fairy tales.\n\n9. I have great respect for your banking system, and for your legal system. Our laws are based on what England had taught the settlers, with an extra dose of fairness.\n\n10. We like your rock music -- it's very artistic and intriguing. English musicians think that they made it really big when they have an album in the United States, and we love having those musicians come here. Unfortunately, I don't think that we get as many of your bands as we used to. I don't know why that is. Maybe Americans have become more cunning at marketing more American music, creating a smoke screen hiding the deeply artistic talent of the English rock musician. But I'm not really certain about any of this.\n\n11. And last, your reserved manner can be intimidating on occasion. It's possible that that stems from the fact that, although we both speak English, there is a tremendous number of words and phrases that are completely different, which creates a soft barrier. It's like speaking a foreign language. I would certainly be interested to hear your perception of this.
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that's easy\n\njust watch American film or television shows, but don't look at the subtitles. or you can always listen to American music. try hip hop, rap, and American folk music such as country. these types of music usually represents the unique American accent when they are speaking. but beware of the reap and hip hop music. some of them use swears (use foul language a lot), if you have doubts, the Internet is your library. look up the words you don't understand.\n\noxford advance learners dictionary is a good dictionary because it helps you pronounce the words in American, British and New Zealand/Australian English. it even has some examples of swear/foul words for you to understand what it means
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A person's accent is derived from the people they are surrounded by. It can be specialized to the neighborhood level at times. (Brooklyn's distinct speech being the best example.)\n\nSo all of the above really.
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The Cockney and Scouser accents make me laugh (in a good way).  I love the Geordie accent but it doesn't appear in many movies  So I guess I will have to go for the Yorkshire accent.  Now if you had said the UK I would definitely go for Scottish.
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The scots have a Burr (equivalent to the irish brogue).\nThese are not dialects, a dialect is a language that is an offspring of another language, adding and changing certain words.\nAn accent is a way of pronouncing the words in a language...\nEnglish has many accents...\nirish brogue\nscottish burr\ncockney, kentish, oxfordian, yorkshire, liverpudlian, etc...\nThe main accent is called the BBC accent it is the standard british accent used by professional and well educated people in Great Britain, particularly in the south.\n\nThe Australian accent is also quite different and unique.\n\nThe Canadian is also different, though similar to the US.\n\nThe USA has what is called a\nGeneral American accent which is the most common, espècially in the central and western parts of the country\nThere are several more, the most well known being:\ntexan drawl or twang\nsouthern drawl\nnewenglander\nbostonian, etc....