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Topic: I love German accents
Blondey111 Joined Sun 01/27/13 Posts: 9012	Thu 01/14/21 04:22 PM
I love women with French accents but I am half French and half Irish. I have spent considerable time in both the UK and on the continent, at least enough to take note of the accents. Being the half and half mixture I am presents a conundrum................. I'd love to hear a NZ accent. Here we go ... http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5CqV7BE7go&feature=share http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p6cInZvsPPI&t=91s I hope the links work. perhaps girth would prefer to hear the opposite sex .. Rachel Hunter ., one of our most famous http://youtu.be/BoKmWqZagQM Or you could phone him

artykay Joined Sat 11/18/17 Posts: 170	Thu 01/14/21 05:28 PM
I recall a moment in 'Lord of the Dance', where a amazing cast member spoke of her experience as her role within the company. WOW! I just melted. I was blown away by her accent and articulation.

Mike6615 Joined Sun 09/18/16 Posts: 1525	Thu 01/14/21 05:50 PM
What do people class as a "British accent"? Bearing in mind there are hundreds of British accents, I'm presuming most people think of a London based RP accent rather than a working class northern type accent? Related to this, I remember when seeing "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) after the girls' screaming subsided, it took some time to start to understand their accent.

SparklingCrystal 💖💎 Joined Mon 05/20/13 Posts: 33354	Fri 01/15/21 12:11 PM
As for German accents... I don't like German. But I must say that certain things should be done in German and not translated. Like Rammstein. German is a very powerful language and this is lost when translated into English. Same with Peter Fox's songs, and of his band Seeed. These are all best in German and I can totally enjoy them! I LOVED Haus Am See!!

blah..blah.. Joined Sat 04/26/14 Posts: 1648	Fri 01/15/21 03:38 PM Edited by blah..blah.. on Fri 01/15/21 03:39 PM
I'm from that area Crystal but a bit further south, i probably have a broader Yorkshire accent than what you'd hear and around Leeds!

blah..blah.. Joined Sat 04/26/14 Posts: 1648	Fri 01/15/21 03:41 PM
I love women with French accents but I am half French and half Irish. I have spent considerable time in both the UK and on the continent, at least enough to take note of the accents. Being the half and half mixture I am presents a conundrum................. I'd love to hear a NZ accent. Here we go ... http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5CqV7BE7go&feature=share http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p6cInZvsPPI&t=91s I hope the links work. If its a NZ accent then surely it would be a "lank" wouldn't it , as they seem to have got their vowels mixed up

SparklingCrystal 💖💎 Joined Mon 05/20/13 Posts: 33354	Fri 01/15/21 04:10 PM
I'm from that area Crystal but a bit further south, i probably have a broader Yorkshire accent than what you'd hear and around Leeds! Chances are I have difficulty with it or need a little time to get the hang of it. I had the same thing when I met up with a friend from Blackpool. I usually pick up on it fast. A lot of differences in accents in the UK, right. My friend in Portsmouth had this weird thing. I believe like when he meant to say "wait" it sounded like "white". It was something like that, highly confusing at times, haha. My British ex was from London, but he had lived in The Netherlands for over 20 yrs when we met so I didn't find he had a specific accent. Certain no 'hot potato in the throat'. I did love being on the tube btw! Listening to all these people, their accents. Wonderful! And a 'Mind the gap!" to top it off :) Yup, I love UK accents. Oh, I have btw checked out the northern Yorkshire dialect a while back. Holy cow... Way beyond my wheelhouse, haha.

blah..blah.. Joined Sat 04/26/14 Posts: 1648	Sat 01/16/21 08:27 AM
I'm from that area Crystal but a bit further south, i probably have a broader Yorkshire accent than what you'd hear and around Leeds! Chances are I have difficulty with it or need a little time to get the hang of it. I had the same thing when I met up with a friend from Blackpool. I usually pick up on it fast. A lot of differences in accents in the UK, right. My friend in Portsmouth had this weird thing. I believe like when he meant to say "wait" it sounded like "white". It was something like that, highly confusing at times, haha. My British ex was from London, but he had lived in The Netherlands for over 20 yrs when we met so I didn't find he had a specific accent. Certain no 'hot potato in the throat'. I did love being on the tube btw! Listening to all these people, their accents. Wonderful! And a 'Mind the gap!" to top it off :) Yup, I love UK accents. Oh, I have btw checked out the northern Yorkshire dialect a while back. Holy cow... Way beyond my wheelhouse, haha. London isn't really "British" anymore, it's a thoroughly multicultural place now and very few London or cockney accents can be heard. Those Midlanders and Southerners do sepak funny though, they don't have a bath, they have a "Barth" and as you say, they have to go and "white" for a "trying" etc. We speak proper up here in our grim and darklands. Blackpool is an interesting one, as it's in Lancashire, but has more of a Manchester twang than a pure Lancashire accent, I guess it's developed into a hybrid accent becuase of the many accents it's residents will have heard and picked up over the years due to the millions of visitors. As for your Netherlands, it's an accent lovingly mocked and used widely here, certainly, the "laydish" at Eindhoven airport and rail stations stick in our minds whenever we're travelling

Unknow Joined Tue 04/28/20 Posts: 2929	Wed 02/17/21 04:19 PM
Look what I found lol. Laris, when are we talking on the phone?