RobWhite
Judging by my accent, where would you think I'm from?

I'm interested to know if people can tell what my mother tongue is when I speak English. Even if you're not sure, I'd appreciate it if you take a guess. 

Not that I have anything against my mother tongue xD, but I think pronunciation/accents are as important as vocabulary and grammar, and just like I wouldn't like to speak my mother tongue with an English accent I wouldn't like the opposite either. So, I really want to know where I stand to see how much I should work on my accent.


http://vocaroo.com/i/s1pd4SU4ggJS

I'd really appreciate your help! ^^

2015年2月6日 11:48
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  Thank you so much to all of you! I definitely wasn't expecting that many replies! ^^ Your comments were very helpful, particularly when you pointed out a specific sound I was pronouncing in a funny way (s/z, 'a' in happy, 'ee', the whole first sentence xD, etc). So my special thanks go to Su. Ki, Paul, Jmat and Jonathan :P. Thanks for taking the time to listen to my recording! Now that I listen to it again I notice the things you mentioned.

 And since I've got so many replies I don't want to keep you guessing anymore.  I guess my location was set to Taiwan because of my IP, I'm currently living here but my Chinese is mediocre at best and I was born and raised in Argentina. So I guess in way Su. Ki. was the closest to discovering my mother tongue with the s/z thing. As for those who guesses Japan, I do speak some Japanese maybe it's influenced my English a tiny bit?

At the end of the day I guess my accent is a mash-up of all the accents I hear, and most of the times I speak with non-native speakers of English. Hope that satisfies your curiosity, and if you have any more questions feel free to ask!

Thanks again!

2015年2月6日
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If you are Dutch, are you Robrecht de Wit?

2015年2月6日
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You don't sound like a native speaker but you don't have a strong accent that would mark you out as being from a certain country either. Very hard to pick, if I had to guess I would say Dutch is your mother tongue. Su.Ki is right, the way you said 'unhappy' and 'happy' reminded me of Australia/NZ too.

2015年2月6日
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Germany.

2015年2月6日
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All I can get is that you sound like a) non-native speaker who b) has learned British English.

 

The passage you are reading is from Ray Bradbury's <em>The Martian Chronicles, </em>but I don't think you are Martian!

 

I noticed pronunciation of "few," too. I was almost ready to say British. As a native U.S. speaker, though, I'm not very good at identifying variations in non-U.S. English.

2015年2月7日
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