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Yes, I've become a lurker in the last several months. For those of you who don't remember me, I used to be a regular here until I noticed my hair type/pattern changing (getting a bit more loosely curled). So I have been keeping my hair cut REALLY low. I will cut my hair once more before I let it grow--it should be finished with it's "transformation" by then.
I understand that many of us are from other countries and I'm curious to know how everybody sounds. Though I'm American I get told alot that I talk like a Brit (minus extra profanity LOL) I know I definitely do it when I get frustrated about something. Other people have said that I go back and forth between a northern American accent and a posh Brit accent. Here's a file I uploaded to let you all be the judge.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/d9t55z
And now I want to here YOU GUYS :P
I come from northern England, and no one speaks like that over here, but i can definately hear a tiny something of the more southern areas about your voice.
Us up north have really gruff accents usually, it sure is grim.
(for people in the know, i wen' t'up t'hill t' get t'hovis)
Oh you've a Gaelic accent? I have a really hard time understanding that accent lol
I have seen the hill used in that old Hovis bread advert, and it's not in the North of England atall, it's in Shrewsbury, Wiltshire, in the West Country. I believe the street is actually called Golden Hill. All the locals identified it as the hill used in the Hovis advert. It really is a very scenic spot. In fact, if you were to pan out from what they showed in the ad you could see for many miles from the top of the hill.
One thing puzzles me. I remember seeing that ad broadcast on TV when I worked for the Electrical Research Association, because they sent me to Shrewsbury for a week to do some work there. I was actually based in Surrey. But I was in that job from 1980 to 1984. How old would that have made you at the time? I was trying to work out if you were even born by then, but I don't know how old you are? Of course, I don't remember how long they carried on showing the advert.
I wasnt actually referencing to the the north, more just to the advert becuase i like it.
I wasnt born then but my dad loves that advert and always mentions it, it's part of my childhod for another reason
It's not that bad up north and have you been to Bradford. Okay I live in the south of the UK but the people that live up in the north are more friendly and genuinely welcoming and are not so busy wrapped up in the rat race like some people I know down south.
We t'hovis and I've up that b'oody hill.
Cheers,
John.B
I agree with the rat race thing, but i dont think thaqt generalistation can be applied to all of the northern areas. It's kinda rough, but i dotn know what down souths like
Well, I learned a lot of english from american tv-shows and movies at a young age. Though, in school we were taught british. So my accent is a mixture of american british and swedish.
Same here, i learned alot of my english from the media, and especially from all the computer games i played at a young age, i remember always asking my dad for interpretation if there was some sentences i didn't understand, lol:D
Even though we were all thought british in school, i actually prefer speaking the american accent.
You're exactly like a friend of mine from Belgium. She's used to watching American media even though she's taught The Queen's English. As a result she has a difficult time understanding alot of things that are said with an English accent (while I usually have no problem understanding LOL)
I'm a native English speaker living in Sweden and I've noticed that almost all the Swedes I know speak English with an American accent because of the media influence. Even those who want to speak with an English accent (and were taught it in school) have to force the accent.
I was in a year-long online relationship with a man in Sweden. I was kinda bummed the first time I heard him speak; I was expecting the Swedish Chef, I guess. But while I could tell he wasn't from THIS part of the US, he could pass for a USian or Canadian, more like Minnesota or the Dakotas.
This is an interesting topic. I know that the few members on here that I've actually talked to, their voices were much different that what I expected. Still, it's really neat to put a voice with a face. =)
my voice
hahaha!! you sound nothing like what i had in my head. and yet your real voice suits you so much better than what i imagined. funny how that works... perhaps i should apologize for my head's version, as it was much more cartoony. sorry about that!
peace,
nic
That's a very cool voice!
Same with you mate, you're voice is much deeper than i expect looking at you...
Sounds like you'd make a great public speaker.
Hey James, Thats a really cool voice. It sounds very deep yet clear. You would make a great radio show host or perhaps a sports commentator.
Wow, you have the voice of someone maybe in their 30s. Not nearly as deep as I would have thought. A good many tall people have very deep voices. You have what sounds to me like an ideal radio announcer's voice. Radio announcers make reasonably good money too.
Scott
Well, yes and no in the U.S. If you can break into a major market, get a weekday shift and contract job under AFTRA you can do well. Be in a medium or small market non-union non-contract gig, or a part-timer on weekends and it's not good. Lots of competition for the good jobs. And stations are doing more outsourcing, reliance on part-time help, sat. feeds...sure there are a few people making millions, but for each one of them there are thousands barely getting by. Forget about job security. You really have to love radio to get in it and stay.
Pleasant voice; very midwestern. Much less Chicago sounding than me : ) (that's supposed to be a compliment).
(n/t)
Hi there,
Interesting post you've brought up. Funny that you get the impression that British people swear a lot - I certainly don't : ) Anyway, I am from the Midlands in England, my dad was brought up in Hertfordshire (the east) and my mum is from north Yorkshire (the north). As a result have a sort of "neutral" or non-regional, slightly posh sounding English accent - bit like Stewies from family guy, with the posh turned down. In England there's a odd phenomenom that occurs with the sound of the letter A in words. Northern people say words like "bath" and "grass" with prominant "A" sound. Southern people tend to say the words mentioned like they are spelt with an H in them "Bahth" or "Grahss"- for example. Because I've raised by both a Northerner and a Southerner I tend to do both, and people who live in the north or south poke fun at me for saying things the "wrong" way. My accent is mixed very up : )
Neil
Same with me although a bit worse. Both of my parents were born and raised here but my mom (and my siblings) was raised in the north while my dad was raised in the south. As a result I often talk fast like I'm from the north...but when I was younger I also used to watch a lot of movies/shows with a lot of Brits. So I REALLY had a wierd mix between American and a Londonish accent lol People used to poke fun at me as well, so I eventually dropped my accent altogether. I can sound American if I really think about it...but when I start speaking fast I sound more British =/
I took a video from the top of the mountain and I talk throughout its 26 seconds.
Youtube video
You definitely sound the way I expected. Do you travel alot? It looks like you do from the video
Marvelous view from the top of Mt. Garfield Jason! I've only hiked Mt. Washington, mostly late spring, but my buddy has hike a number of ridges and peaks.
Here is a picture of that 1986 winter trip to Mt. Washington
Bruce
If you wanna hear my voice, go to my youtube channel and go to Melog
Ignore the first 20 secs, i ahd a sore throat..
Do people from North England always add an "r" to words like "stuff"? It was a little tricky trying to understand your friend lol
You sound like a guy I work with. He's from South London. It's really hard for me to understand him sometimes, I have to listen really closely! Cool accent, though.
hahahahaha!!! you have FAR too much time on your hands.
http://www.uploadthis.co.uk/uploads/Haku89/Sammich.mp3
I guess I should've finished eating before I listened to that LOL That was mildly disturbing
I really don't have much to say and my mind kind of goes blank, creatively, but here it goes....
Bruce
he says:
"This is what I sound like today, November 15 2007"
n/t
Could be that your antivirus program is blocking it, or your explorer settings won't allow it. Try right clicking and "save target" to your computer, then double clicking from that location. Then don't forget to delete me, you don't want that voice haunting you computer!
Bruce
Well your hair doesn't look so bad. It looks a LOT better than mine on a rainy day lol
Hey Walter, Your hair doesn't look bad at all. In fact, I think it looks great! :-) Your voice is cool too. Your English sounds very good and the Portuguese accent makes it sound even cooler. Take care Walter.
This is what I sound like, smalltalking and such. I speak French as well, but not _as_ well. lol Anyways, type to you later!
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=10c9wMynSv0
now you do sound just as i would expect you to
(n/t)