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06 Mar 2010, 9:31 pm

So what kind of accents are you good at making?

I've been told that I can do a really good British accent. I also can do a decent Southern accent as well, but that's probably because I live in the South anyway. :roll:



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06 Mar 2010, 9:47 pm

Accents are here:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt120250.html

Unfortunately my accent is I-want-to-kill-everyone-like in every language, so better use this link :twisted:


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06 Mar 2010, 9:54 pm

Valoyossa wrote:
Accents are here:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt120250.html

Unfortunately my accent is I-want-to-kill-everyone-like in every language, so better use this link :twisted:


Well, I wasn't asking what accent you naturally speak in, I'm asking what accent you can mimic.



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06 Mar 2010, 11:07 pm

I've managed to fool people into thinking I'm American, English and Scottish. Sometimes I can pull off Australian or New Zealandish accents, but mostly I end up slipping back and forth between them, and there are a few variations I'm sort of halfway-okay at. As for non-native accents, sometimes I can pull off a fairly convincing German accent, and a sort of non-specific Romanian/Polish/Czech/Russian-ish type accent (gets more specific if I listen to the accent before I do it)... I'm probably forgetting something. I can usually pick up an accent if I listen to it a lot for an extended period of time and try to imitate it along the way. Which I do occasionally. I can manipulate my voice a bit, too.
Ironically, my Swedish accent is not very convincing at all.


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07 Mar 2010, 12:26 am

I can imitate an Irish accent. That always makes people laugh.



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07 Mar 2010, 1:30 am

i can barely avoid tripping over my own tongue IRL, so accents are out of the question. that is a talent i would like to have, though- to mimic people would be fun.



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07 Mar 2010, 9:05 am

I seem to have an innate ability to copy accents.English (Cockney,Liverpudlian,Geordie etc),Irish (Northern and Southern),Welsh,American,Australian,French,German,Swedish,Italian,Dutch,Russian etc.
I've also been able to imitate some celebrities but I find that takes a lot more practice than just doing general accents.


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07 Mar 2010, 7:47 pm

pluto wrote:
I seem to have an innate ability to copy accents.English (Cockney,Liverpudlian,Geordie etc),Irish (Northern and Southern),Welsh,American,Australian,French,German,Swedish,Italian,Dutch,Russian etc.
I've also been able to imitate some celebrities but I find that takes a lot more practice than just doing general accents.


sounds like you could've been the life of the party then, to entertain folk with impressions and funny accents. sorta like rich little.



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08 Mar 2010, 12:39 am

Everybody knows what kind of an accent I have.


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08 Mar 2010, 1:45 am

I can do an amazing Indian accent. I could also do a pretty good Steve Irwin voice back in the day.


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08 Mar 2010, 10:23 am

I haven't really attempted to get good. My british accent fails miserably.
I can imitate some animals well, though.



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08 Mar 2010, 4:33 pm

auntblabby wrote:
pluto wrote:
I seem to have an innate ability to copy accents.English (Cockney,Liverpudlian,Geordie etc),Irish (Northern and Southern),Welsh,American,Australian,French,German,Swedish,Italian,Dutch,Russian etc.
I've also been able to imitate some celebrities but I find that takes a lot more practice than just doing general accents.


sounds like you could've been the life of the party then, to entertain folk with impressions and funny accents. sorta like rich little.


I find parties a little overwhelming but I work in a shipping office and sometimes amuse my colleagues by impersonating the accents relative to the international phone calls I'm transferring to them. Rich Little is one of my favourite entertainers,although in the UK he's relatively 'Little-known' . :)


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08 Mar 2010, 6:23 pm

pluto wrote:
Rich Little is one of my favourite entertainers,although in the UK he's relatively 'Little-known' . :)


"little" known. :lol:



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08 Mar 2010, 6:31 pm

Irish, Scottish, Welsh, London, Australian ...

That is all 8)

With time I can replicate when immersed in the culture long enough



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08 Mar 2010, 6:39 pm

British accents I can do:
BBC British
Lancaster
Scottish
Cockney
Midlands

Other European accents:
Limerick, Ireland
French
German

North American:
Wisconsin
Queens (NYC)
New Jersey
Maryland
Chicago
Newfoundlander
Texan

Other:
Australian

16 different accents. Impressive!


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08 Mar 2010, 6:41 pm

anarchybovine wrote:
16 different accents. Impressive!


wow, are you a voice actress by any chance?