Yes, I think we all got stage fright in the making of our videos. I've just watched mine again and the cringe factor was off the scale! :redface:
Hey no, your vid was totally cool! Mine would suck whether I had stage fright or not... it's just my voice.
Lyd-your video was great, also, lol,I was speaking nonsense too. Thanks Rei. Lol, anytime you're in India, come right over, we'll shop and have tikki, bhel puri and what not! *smiles at Rob* Thanks . lol, your vid was great!
Lyd you have a realy nice voice! and you're gorgeous, I don't know why you keep saying you hate your voice. And I love your accent
I second that, Wrey. Lydia and Neha, you're both so adorable! I loved your videos. And Lydia, you totally do have an accent! I love it, your voice is lovely, crazy girl. Now I wish I knew how to post a video...
Aww, I went back and watched all the videos that still worked...this thread is fun! Maybe when I have more time, I'll record something with my phone and try to figure out how to post it.
My accent is rather weird. I live in Indonesia but a part of my family lives in Australia. I often go there and it has affected my accent. I like to watch Western movies, and it has affected my accent as well. The weirdest thing is however, how I've come to have a slight mix of British, it all started when I used to talk in British with my friends, sort of to "get the feeling" of it. I later realized that most actors in well known English plays have British accent. I later have this slight British accent as I go on with my English Literature course. SO to put it simply, I would say that if I speak, I would have 50% American accent, 25% Australian Accent, 24% British Accent, 1% others (it's sort of a random mix-up between accents such as Indonesian [when my tongue happens to slip lol], Philippines [most of my teachers came from the Philippines], and weird accents which probably doesn't exist) Those are just approximations, it's really weird, I can't really have a definite accent. If for example in a sentence like : Do the restaurants provide toilets? Because I would be more comfortable if I can go directly. I would say : Do (with american) the (sometimes australian sometimes american) restaurants (with american mixed with australian) provide (sometimes american sometimes British) toilets (mix of British and American)? Because (a random mix, depending on the words before and after) I (with australian) would (with american) be (sometimes american/British/australian) more (with British) comfortable (with american) if (with american) I (with australian) can (sometimes british/australian) go (sometimes British/american) directly (sometimes american/australian/british). It's random and I am serious. I don't really have a definite accent because I say words with an accent that I find more comfortable with. Example : "do" would be more comfortable if said in american rather than British or Australian. I also think that my mother tongue affects the way I talk (in which accent a word is more comfortable to talk in).
Well... I understand what you mean... I spend half of the day talking boring I-don't-know-what-accent-English, and the other half I speak some kind of mixture of Americain, British and Australian. Or well, that's how it sounds like to me...
Whoa, Heather. Your voice doesn't sound ONE BIT like I imagined it! This isn't necessarily a bad thing, it just took me off guard. I was expecting something...higher?
HAAH! Cooooool Neha you're adorable. Lydia is very cool. And Heather is awwwesome! I also have many stuffed teddies. And I love the way you say 'Claw machine'. I must record myself saying 'Claw machine' and you can here just how different it sounds, haha Yay for accents.
That's standard English, actually..... there is no 'British' accent. But i'll let you off...this time
It's under Scotland, above England and to the east of Wales. EDIT: And I'm from upstate New York. And no, I sound nothing like a redneck OR a stereotypical guy from NYC.
But if it were actually standard, then there would have to be some majority that spoke that way, and I have to understand that the Harry Potter Accent is only to be found on film and screen. So.... Yeah!
Lydia, I'm all too glad you dug up this thread. I loved it And you have amazing voice. Also Neha, you've turned out so cute in your video. Kinda weird hearing you all, but pleasant anyways. And now I'm seriously tempted to make a video, so I could finally decide what kind of accent I actually have.
I have a British accent. Gaelic is spoken in Britain, isn't it? I speak a Gaelic dialect, one of the few on the mainland, although because of the Lewis dialect, it has many more words now than it did a few years ago, and the pronounciation is also different. I think that most of the Gaelic dialects are going to be similar to the Lewis or Skye dialects in the north, with a few in the south, such as Islay, becoming more Irish than they already are. They also employ people who aren't native speakers, and that results in English words often appearing on Gaelic radio, or at least Anglicised words. They usually just take a word, and apply Gaelic pronounciation rules to it, and the result is something that no-one can spell. There is no British accent. There are eight native languages that are still spoken, and the pronounciation of them is often opposite to each other. Many don't even use the same letters as the others.
