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<blockquote data-quote="Thingimubob" data-source="post: 293880"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gingergenius @ Dec 16 2009, 08:17 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=427426" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>To be honest, English speakers don't really get picky about foreigners' accents... it's great they can speak English in the first place!!!</p><p></p><p>I tend to find that French and speakers tend to speak more with an American accent, while the Scandanavians, Dutch and Germans sound more English. In fact, they have more similar accents to my own than a lot of people in the North of England and Scotland.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>That's always been an interesting point to me. I've met quite a few German people who're around my age, and I've noticed that all their accents when speaking English vary a lot. This is mostly because they have an option in high-school to spend a year in a foreign country (usually Britain, America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) so they tend to have the accent of wherever they went.</p><p>Another thing: we listened to a radio 4 show about different variations of English, and this debate came up about Ebonics (posh word for ''Black English''). Basically this county in America declared it a seperate language and it's school system got more money because it's counted as a 'bi-lingual school' (much like the Welsh Comprehensive I go to) so the debate was generally should Ebonics (the African American Dialect was what the guy on the radio said) be counted as a seperate language, with it's own grammer and lexis, or should it be seen as just part of the world-wide group of English dialects and accents?</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Thingimubob, post: 293880"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gingergenius @ Dec 16 2009, 08:17 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=427426']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> To be honest, English speakers don't really get picky about foreigners' accents... it's great they can speak English in the first place!!! I tend to find that French and speakers tend to speak more with an American accent, while the Scandanavians, Dutch and Germans sound more English. In fact, they have more similar accents to my own than a lot of people in the North of England and Scotland. [/b][/quote] That's always been an interesting point to me. I've met quite a few German people who're around my age, and I've noticed that all their accents when speaking English vary a lot. This is mostly because they have an option in high-school to spend a year in a foreign country (usually Britain, America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) so they tend to have the accent of wherever they went. Another thing: we listened to a radio 4 show about different variations of English, and this debate came up about Ebonics (posh word for ''Black English''). Basically this county in America declared it a seperate language and it's school system got more money because it's counted as a 'bi-lingual school' (much like the Welsh Comprehensive I go to) so the debate was generally should Ebonics (the African American Dialect was what the guy on the radio said) be counted as a seperate language, with it's own grammer and lexis, or should it be seen as just part of the world-wide group of English dialects and accents? [/QUOTE]
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