I got a mixed result - New England and Western. That's interestingly accurate; I've live in Colorado most of my life, but spent a couple of years in Massachusetts and Rhode Island when I was 2 - 3 and learning to talk. It used to drive me batty when we'd come back from visiting my mom's family back East and she'd tag r's on everything for a couple of months! My name's *Nina* NOT 'Neener', dammit! (LOL)
I found the tacked-on Rs in posh/RP British English a bit weird when I first started learning it, and I still suspect I'm not pronouncing things right because I don't tack a ghostly R to the end of various words ending with "-aw".
Hmmm... I took this test, and I think its main weakness is like that of most memes: trying to fit square pegs into round holes, and having too few round holes to choose from in the first place.
I mean, it told me that I have a midwestern "flat" accent, when I know for a fact that I speak with a nasally Hudson Valley Twang (yes, that's the offical term). But Hudson Valley Twang was not available as a choice, so I got the answer I did. Also, it asks "Do you pronounce X and Y the same, or different?" but it doesn't even come close to asking how you actuatlly pronounce X or Y...
And Joey from Friends does speak with a very steryotypical Brooklyn accent. But Brooklyn is only one district in New York City. My mother grew up in the heart of Manhattan, and her accent was nothing like Joey's (and she hated that I picked up the HVT). There are probably as many different accents in New York as there are in the different regions of London.
I ticked nearly every box with "completely different". My vowels are pretty long and/or clear. As cliched as it is, I always imagine New Yawk accents to have that "oy" sound ("work" pronounced "woyjk") characteristic of Jewish and Italian ancestry, and I never do that. I would really love to know what it says about Michigan accents...
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I mean, it told me that I have a midwestern "flat" accent, when I know for a fact that I speak with a nasally Hudson Valley Twang (yes, that's the offical term). But Hudson Valley Twang was not available as a choice, so I got the answer I did. Also, it asks "Do you pronounce X and Y the same, or different?" but it doesn't even come close to asking how you actuatlly pronounce X or Y...
And Joey from Friends does speak with a very steryotypical Brooklyn accent. But Brooklyn is only one district in New York City. My mother grew up in the heart of Manhattan, and her accent was nothing like Joey's (and she hated that I picked up the HVT). There are probably as many different accents in New York as there are in the different regions of London.
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Yours is nothing like it!
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Are you back or writing from Estonia? Hello!:):):):) And give a hello to tuskel from me if you are still at her place:).
Ai häf sili Finnis äksönt. A muus bit mi sister once...
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