Microblog Memes

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My buddy in Korea learned a lot of his Korean from his Korean wife. Korea. Now, apparently he speaks Korean like a woman.

I am literally friends with a woman that decided when she lived in Japan that the more lower classl/colloquial form of Japanese was easier and only spoke that. So there is a white, Ph. D., upper class woman that speaks fluent Japanese, but only like a Yakuza.

For someone learning English, the first thing I think of is the aunt of a lady that I took Norwegian classes from. My teacher said it's really common in Norway for families that can afford to do so to send their kids to a summer camp in the UK when they're around 14 or so, where they only speak English for a few months to really polish their accent and fluency. Her aunt's parents were a bit behind the ball, though, and all the English summer camps had already filled up by the time they tried booking a place for her, but they found a camp still taking applications in Arkansas. So, all her other relatives speak with posh, British accents, and then her one aunt rolls into the room, talking with a heavy twang that throws everyone off.

I'm gonna sound like an AI when I talk to people in Chinese because Duolingo.

Literally this pakistani dude (couldn't find any other link) https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKh19TWILbv/

Theres a real thing where people learn english from watching influencers and actually talk to people with that god awful influencer voice.

I knew a French guy who sounded like John Wayne because of westerns. Other than the country twang he had no accent.

As a Japanese person, I find it really cringey when people speak like anime, but I do my best to applaud their efforts because no matter how silly it may sound, they appreciate my culture enough to want to learn.

I used duolingo to learn Italian, nothing ever stuck...so i decided to ad in Italian shows and movies. Didn't help either, i think my storage must be filled up or faulty.

Fuhgidaboudit!

Tried to learn Cantonese by watching the Young and Dangerous series, Chow Yun Fatt, Johnnie To movies. Now some of my phrases sounds like a Hong Kong gangster.

I taught at an English school in Osaka for a couple of years in my 20s and ended up getting told that in Japanese I sometimes sounded like a little kid because I taught a bunch of kids classes and picked up some language from them. I'm a 6'4 Australian man with a very deep voice.

When I was a kin in the 70s, we had an exchange student from a little town in Sonora Mexico stay with us. His english wasn't great (though much better than my spanish), but he had this really strange accent. It turned out that he loved old hollywood gangster movies, so he was talking like Edward G Robinson, but with a thick spanish accent over the top.

I learned most of my English as a Portuguese teen from TV (the main source of exposure to English language I had, as in Portugal everything but kids shows is subtitled, unlike next door Spain were they dub everything) so my accent was mostly this Americanised thing but with some hard consonants because that's the main thing in the Portuguese from Portugal accent (Brasilian-Portuguese has a different accent).

Then I moved to The Netherlands as a young adult and somehow added a bit of a Dutch accent in my English (in The Netherlands I also learned and mostly spoke Dutch, plus mainly spoke with Dutch people even when speaking English, which is probably why I got a bit of it as accent). Also I apparently have an Amsterdam accent in Dutch.

Then almost a decade later I moved to England, and my English-language accent started drifting again, this time towards English RP (same kind of accent as most TV presenters) though with some funny elements such as a bit of a Cockney accent for some forms of swearing, possibly because I was living in London (swearing is fun, and I still naturally mostly in Dutch, for some reason).

I also activelly made an effort so nowadays I can easilly push my English-language accent to almost perfect English-RP, or just be lazy and leave it at my weird natural mess (which still has things like a distorted "ja" instead of "yes" because of Dutch).

Oh, and in all this I've learned how to purposefully speak in various accents in English for fun (though I have trouble with Australian and South African, for some reason), which is apparently pretty hard to do in a second language, though for some things I kinda fake it (for example, if I start thing in French and then just start speaking in English, the English tends to come with a generic French accent)

I think it's to do with how you learn a language: if you just kinda absorb it (for example from TV or living in a place were people speak it) rather than formally learn it, you just absorb the accent along with the words and the grammer (also you pick up all sorts of quirky stuff like words with no actual meaning that are just used to add emphasis, slang, swearing and so on).

"I went over to France for a blowjob. Your mother was working the bon bon concession at the Eiffel Tower"

This is one of the common tropes in Sora the Troll's videos on non-native Japanese speakers. The subjects only consume anime, so they end up duplicating that way of speaking; but anime, like most Japanese entertainment, is like... Old school theatre? It's purposely exaggerated and over-the-top, so talking like that IRL is just weird. What makes it extra funny is that the skits are also over-exaggerated and over-the-top, so they also sound like anime. lol

Reminds me of Trevor Noah's bit about going to Germany and learning his accent makes him sound like Hitler.

I have a cousin who spoke Spanish like El Chavo del Ocho because he only had access to Spanish channels in the US. Hilarious.

Early 2000's I worked with a man that had moved from Iran to Missouri. He sounded like he was from Brooklyn because he learned so much of his English from movies.

That's not the worst case scenario.

I've met guys who learned English from Red Dwarf (sound Scouse) and EastEnders (sound Cockney).

For sure this is a thing.

Also a bartender who had a Scottish "regular" so spoke English with his accent (the bar was in Amsterdam).

Listen here kid