Where do you live ?

In Slovakia there are such differences between dialects, that people from the west end of the country sometimes can't understand the ones from the east, if they speak their own dialect...

 

I used to live in Germany for quite a bit, one of the things that used to amaze me was the way the Germans in the North speak English with a German-English accent, and those in the South speak German with a distinctly German-American accent. The strength of the accents is entirely related to the proximity of the nearest garisson town of course!

 

LoL!

Most Dutch people speak English with a horrible accent which is entirely to blame on the Dutch language itself. The two tongues are very very different in overall sound.

 

AS you say German has many rules and Dutch has a few, but the rules for the exceptions are many. On my Dutch course I was told a rule except for this instance, or that exception. German is (in my opinion) definately hard to learn from an English point of view. I can see how the Dutch, Norwegians and Danes find German easier.

The Germans from the south speak a horriblle dialect. I lived in Barden-Wurtenburg for 2 years and it was nice to hear a Westfalia accent again.

 

The Horrible accent is the local Hoolywood accent. LOL

 

Well, there are a lot of accents here in the USA, all pretty much dependent upon where you're from. I don't mean foreigners now living here, I mean among home grown Americans. There are huge differences in pronunciation of words, and there also tends to be certain words only used by people from a specific region. Needless to say, the people of each region of the USA thinks the others talk funny...

 

how many people on this website ca speak german. i can only speak a little but im learning it at school and hope to carry on till A level

 

oh yeah. i bet you and i speak differently. since your from nc, i'm expecting a strong southern accent. me, i'm transplanted from rhode island and south carolina to norfolk finally when i was 6. so i don't think i really have an accent. but i'm sure that some language expert could pinpoint where i'm from...

 

Well, I should be able to speak german, back at school I had german as one foreign language for five years. But it was about decade ago and I haven't used german since. Written german was much easier for me than spoken german.

 

I did german at school for 6 years.

 

true i find that as well

 

hi i come from denmark (a little country just north of germany and south of sweden and norway) and i actually think that german is a lot easier to speak than to write.

and remember something you'll never ever, EVER want to hear is a dane who isn't good at english trying to speak it............ the accent is hillarius!!!

 

I talk german. I am in german 2 at Mt. View High school in Maine. I find German is easy to learn. Next year I am going to Germany with some other people from my school. To a suberb of Koln. The only thing hard about German are things like deative pronouns or things in the acqusitive case. the only reson those are hard is because the English teachers in America don't teach any grammar, so I don't know what those things are to begin with.

On accents in America, they are getting less and less as time goes by. My father has about the thickest "Maine Accent" you can find. I don't really have much of one and I have always lived here. Its because of people moving around alot and the communication abilities. I don't get a miane accent from a CNN guy, so I start to lose it. But people from other parts of the country do sound strange. Once when my dad was in California, an guy asked him where he was from. He said I live in New England. the guy then asked my father, "and where in the UK is that?" He thought my dad sounded British. Yeah Right.

 

Welcome aboard PfloyD and Wspauldo12 !

PfloyD, Roel would have a fit if he knew what your signature said. But don´t worry, I wont tell him. Let him figure it out for himself.

 

Mobile, Alabama. Central Gulf Coast of the USA.

 

BTW, the city I live in is named High Point, in case you've never noted the information beneath my user name in here. Seems they built a railroad through the area in the 1850s, and the spot on the survy map where the initial settlement was built was marked "high point", and the name stuck.

 

That's pretty much why there is an actual branch of science that studies place names; they often mean something contemporary and interesting.

 

I come from Leeds England. centre of the universe.

 

Unlike what some others say I find German much easier to speak then to write ( no suprise there really it's almost Dutch with 4 or 5 vowels changed each sentence)
But what really cracks me up is anyone whose first language is English speaking perfect Dutch except for the accent.
I once saw an episode of "Friends" which had over 40 fully Dutch sentences.... I nearly choked laughing (you may find this episode on kazaa)

 

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