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Mosca Posted 19 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

What's the thing here?

The actress in this scene in a non native ae speaker (she´s dutch) - a commenter mentions that somewhere you can hear the dutch accent come through - is it a general feature of her speech or is it any certain passages or phrases? (I´m scandinavian so I can hear some resemblence in her articulation and melody to the way we speak but would be interesting to get your view of how it comes across)

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Hi, I listened very quickly... Anyway, if I didn't know she was Dutch, I'd say she was American. I only noticed one T that she didn't tap, and nothing else.

— Kooyeen

  • Hi, I listened very quickly...
  • Anyway, if I didn't know she was Dutch, I'd say she was American.
  • I only noticed one T that she didn't tap, and nothing else.
  • I can't notice slight differences between accents, I can only notice strong accents or some strange features, but I think it's normal for a learner of English as a second language.
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Hi,
I listened very quickly... Anyway, if I didn't know she was Dutch, I'd say she was American. I only noticed one T that she didn't tap, and nothing else.
I can't notice slight differences between accents, I can only notice strong accents or some strange features, but I think it's normal for a learner of English as a second language.
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noone has any comments on this?
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Sounds All-American to me. What exactly do you want?
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I just want to learn from someone with a native language similar to mine. This actress is reputed for having perfected her accent in a foreign language - far from my ambitions- but if I could learn something from her efforts in doing so that might prove to be a shortcut for me.
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