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Troy Martin wrote:Unless accents bother some people (and the occasional usage of the word "eh")...

Well, some hard English accents are hard for me to understand. Just look at the British accent. Quote from this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n1pSHzdahc

Citation from the beginning, as I hear it in english... "Ever hell'd on electric fence? It uhrts. Farm's using electric fences to keep kattel in and faxes out. (...) he get's a shock and runs uh-way. Today, houlding onto dys fence designed to shock hoases,..." It's just too soft accent for me, it's like if you had a hot potato in your throat.

And mine reading of this text: http://inflater.szm.sk/acc.wav

And mine reading of this text: http://inflater.szm.sk/acc.wav

Talking about accents, That sounds like the Red Alert II soviets.

On the other hand I don't even notice that Richard Hammond's speaking with accent. Probably because that's what I grew up with...

Inflater, you'd have fun trying to decipher this

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shiner wrote:add me - from Romania

Ah, a fellow Romanian. We *might* be the only ones still active around here. Where are you from?

Now let me speak my native language... here's the text that has been translated into Slovak:

"Hey, I'm Inflater (well "eenflaiter" pronounced in English). I'm 15 years old. I like computers, programming and a bit of electronics, high voltage the most. I'm studying in the college-prep middle school in Púchov."

And I'm speaking this:

"Nazdar, som inflater (teda "inflejter" v angličtine). Mám 15 rokov. Bavia ma hlavne počítače, programovanie a trocha elektroniky, vysoké napätie. Navštevujem Gymnázium v Púchove."
here: http://inflater.szm.sk/acc2.wav

We have a bit "harder" accent than the russians have. And completely different language.

Hmm, I really didn't notice much of an accent in your speaking, inflater. Then again, the southern U.S. of A. accents stick out at me the most (*cough*dubya*cough*)

GhostXoPCorp: Cant Ask a question correctly, tries to get an answer. knows to little about what is needed to know gets, mad easily. yeah sounds a little like me,oh, and cant take advise seriously, hows that? unless there is more? (i just made a fool of myself , but its true i guess ) i hope my rank goes up from newbie when i realease my os, newbie -1 sounds better.

Love4Boobies wrote:

shiner wrote:add me - from Romania

Ah, a fellow Romanian. We *might* be the only ones still active around here. Where are you from?

I still read this forum a lot, I just don't post much. I'm not a native Romanian but I live in Romania, hopefully that still counts.

Stevo14 wrote:

Love4Boobies wrote:

shiner wrote:add me - from Romania

Ah, a fellow Romanian. We *might* be the only ones still active around here. Where are you from?

I still read this forum a lot, I just don't post much. I'm not a native Romanian but I live in Romania, hopefully that still counts.

Ah nice. What city/town would that be?

EDIT: Nevermind, it's Arad

Love4Boobies wrote:

danrk wrote:Solar - A very good person who understand others feelings. Listen to others and help them to understand the things.
That's all come into my mind.

I'm sorry to say this but that sounds gay (no offense)

Oh God! Not at all ...

danrk wrote:Oh God! Not at all ...

Relax, I was only kidding

Love4Boobies wrote:

danrk wrote:Oh God! Not at all ...

Relax, I was only kidding

Cool buddy..

inflater wrote:Well, some hard English accents are hard for me to understand. Just look at the British accent. Quote from this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n1pSHzdahc

Well, Hammond is speaking very clear and understandable BrE. If you regularly watch the BBC, you're getting used to a lot worse accents :). Try a good Estuary (London) English, and you're pretty soon lost :).


JAL

Hi,

I agree - I think that Hammond's accent (probably Home Counties) is one of the easiest to pick up English accents (but then, I'm from around there ). I now live in the Westcountry, which is one of the hardest accent to grasp (there are some samples here, along with loads of other british accents). I find that the hardest native British accent of all to understand has to be Glaswegian (for anyone who doesn't know, search around for a clip from Rab C Nesbitt!).

Cheers,
Adam

AJ wrote:there are some samples here

Darn, that site bugs! I select Window Media Player, and get Real Player (which I haven't installed) anyway...


JAL