Reply To: How we perceive accents

[Rubina]

This is an interesting and inspiring theme to explore! Pronunciation is the hapiness and torment for all learners!

For me it is a reason for hapiness because I’ve just start to recognize some accents, Scottish and Australian for example. Let me tell you something that happen to me this winter. I’m not a tv series obsessed but in order to learn english I decided to watch movies in original sound. This winter I saw a British series called Broadchurch where one of the protagonists is detective Alec Hardy

So, as you immagine I felt in love with him and one of the most seductive aspect was his Scottish accent. I can’t explain exactly what fascinated me but I think is a musical and “warm” accent.

Australian accent instead is very difficult to understand, seems to me that they cut or omitted letters when they are speaking, also I found it a bit “close” and craggy, harsh. I spoke with a friend that is living in Sidney and he told me they are used to pronounce R letter in something that it sounds exactly as an italian A and that bother him!

Go back to your question I really don’t mind speaking with an accent, actually I think is nice and fun, but when Fiorentini stress to much some of our accent characteristics like speak with a potato in the mouth or completely omitting the C sounds they exaggerate and I don’t like it!