Cool resource: accent database

Prawn · Mar 4, 2007

I know that there has been a lot of discussion of how to represent accents in dialogue. What if you don't know what an accent sounds like in the first place? I heard about a site where you can listen to clips of people from all over the world speaking English. So if you want to know what a woman in her sixties from Azerbijan sounds like speaking English, this site for you.

PeeDee · Mar 4, 2007

Heck, even when I don't have a particular use for it, that falls under the "that's so cool" category nicely. Thankyew!

Siddow · Mar 4, 2007

That's wicked cool, and now sitting in my research folder. Thanks!

swvaughn · Mar 4, 2007

Sweet! Awesome link - thanks!

PeeDee · Mar 4, 2007

And may I just say how naughty the English and Welsh somehow manage to make this simple phrase sound....?

MidnightMuse · Mar 4, 2007

No better accent on this planet than the Welsh

I could listen to Tom Jones recite the dictionary and get all hot.

icerose · Mar 4, 2007

Sweet, thanks for the resource!

Shadow_Ferret · Mar 4, 2007

MidnightMuse said:
No better accent on this planet than the Welsh

Not sure where you heard the Welsh from, but when I click on it I'm told that's not a native language for any of their speakers.

PeeDee · Mar 4, 2007

I think technically, it's just English with a lot of extra "oooo"s put in.

aruna · Mar 4, 2007

Nice! If anyone wants to hear a Guyanese accent, its English 183. However, that was very toned down, ie too good!

My-Immortal · Mar 4, 2007

PeeDee said:
And may I just say how naughty the English and Welsh somehow manage to make this simple phrase sound....?

I was clicking on a few of those and I totally agree....

Makes you wonder if the English ladies find the midwestern male accent sexy doesn't it?

LOL

Okay...probably not.

(Reminds me of the scene in the movie Love Actually where the geeky English guy comes to Wisconsin and immediately has all the girls hitting on him because of the accent....)

PeeDee · Mar 4, 2007

First, that was a brilliant movie.

Second, I really hope English girls find Midwestern accents adorable. 'Cause I live in the Midwest, and my Cajun yat is mostly gone at this point.

(like it matters, Pete = Married....)

Solatium · Mar 4, 2007

Thanks! I remember finding this about three years ago, but I lost the link. Fascinating, isn't it?

My-Immortal · Mar 4, 2007

PeeDee said:
First, that was a brilliant movie.

Second, I really hope English girls find Midwestern accents adorable. 'Cause I live in the Midwest, and my Cajun yat is mostly gone at this point.

(like it matters, Pete = Married....)

Darn it Pete if we aren't of similar minds here yet again....

I thought the movie was brilliant - Bill Nighy is amazing! (actually, I thought most of the actors/actresses in that movie were great) LOL

I have a very midwestern accent 'cause I too live in the midwest, though I don't have any cajun influence....

And it doesn't really matter if the English girls find my voice sexy either cause I too am married.

(Though when I was a dispatcher and single I was often told I had a very soothing phone/radio voice...nothing like having someone call you up because they heard you on the police scanner and wanted to talk to you on the phone! LOL)

Oh wells....

PeeDee · Mar 4, 2007

My-Immortal said:
(Though when I was a dispatcher and single I was often told I had a very soothing phone/radio voice...nothing like having someone call you up because they heard you on the police scanner and wanted to talk to you on the phone! LOL)

PHONE RINGS.

IMMORTAL: Hello?

CALLER: Hi.

IMMORTAL: ......who is this?

CALLER: I'm having an emergency, officer. You'd better come down and get me right away!

IMMORTAL: What!?

CALLER: It's a matter of LIFE and DEATH! Quickly, come to my apartment and GET me!

IMMORTAL: You've called my cell phone, what's going on?

CALLER: Okay...but it's an emergency of LOVE. And I'm all....alone....

IMMORTAL: Igottagobye!

My-Immortal · Mar 4, 2007

PeeDee said:
PHONE RINGS.

IMMORTAL: Hello?

CALLER: Hi.

IMMORTAL: ......who is this?

CALLER: I'm having an emergency, officer. You'd better come down and get me right away!

IMMORTAL: What!?

CALLER: It's a matter of LIFE and DEATH! Quickly, come to my apartment and GET me!

IMMORTAL: You've called my cell phone, what's going on?

CALLER: Okay...but it's an emergency of LOVE. And I'm all....alone....

IMMORTAL: Igottagobye!

You know, aside from the 'cell phone' part, we would get prank phone calls from time to time late at night...usually a bunch of giggly girls that weren't too far off from that. And then sometimes we'd get the drunks calling on 911 wanting to know where they were....and then around 3-4am we'd get wives calling to find out if their drunk husbands were locked up....and then I swear on full moons we'd get "the crazies" calling (I know, it's not PC to call them 'the crazies' but after fielding hundreds of different calls that run along the lines of: Can you send someone out to check my bathroom because there is a really foul smell coming from the toilet and there's a turd floating in there and I don't remember putting it in there, well, you get the idea....)

Maryn · Mar 5, 2007

I bet you can explain how to make an aluminum foil diaper pretty fast, though, to get the line clear.

Maryn, who thinks the trick is the heavy-duty foil

Cool resource: accent database

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