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So since it seems a lot of us here have partners from other areas of the world, and it's just a fact that there are some yummy accents out there, let's hear about them! Do you just love your SOs accent? Do you melt when he/she speaks in his/her native tongue, or think it's adorable when he/she spouts off unique slang or regionalisms?
I love my guy's Aussie accent. He greets me every day with "G'day sheila," and I love it. One thing that cracks me up is that he actually Americanizes his speech with he talks with me--uses American terms a lot of the time, and his accent is subtler. As soon as he's talking to his family, though, he immediately gets totally Aussie. He doesn't even realize it. Makes me smile every time.
He says he loves my accent, even though I don't think I have much of one. But hey, as long as he's happy.
I love my FI's accent. He has a southern accent & his voice reminds me of a deep country singers voice. *Swoon*
I've noticed that I pick up his accent... he can't talk like me even if he tries! In KY they say "Y'all" and here we say "You guys". He tried saying you guys & I was on the floor dying of laughter. He said it "you guyese" lol
After a month there I have a little bit of a southern drawl :)
does country of origin matter? m is from louisiana and has a great accent.. it's very cute and regional and he teases me all the time because i have a true southern drawl his is way different.. more like a cajun-esque type drawl.
awwwww I wish J had an accent! Well, besides the weird Michigan nasal thing we've bought been fighting to get rid of since we moved out of that state...
Although England is a small country, it has at least as many regional accents as the USA. Picture an Oxford lecturer with a bit of a Geordie accent...that's my boy. (Non-UK bees: the Geordie dialect is the closest thing to Old English to survive into modern times. Some people think it sounds vaguely Scottish, which has something to do with Scotland being fairly close, but trust me, they are different.)
I do like his accent very much, but it's his soft voice that really makes me melt.
I don't think FI has a very sexy accent :( But he does make up cute new words by mixing English and Korean together!
I am from New Orleans originally, but I grew up in GA so I have a slight drawl with certain words/vowels. My FI is from here and I can't stand his improper grammar, slang, accent and poor spelling lol
instead of ASKING me a question, he AXES me a question...ugh!
Can I swoon over your man's accents, ladies? MMmmm. I am such a sucker for them.
We don't have accents. Well, I have a mix of a Californian/Northerner's accents and people ask me about it all the time. I pronounce my A's like Northerners do but I say certain things that are very Californian. Dh doesn't have one that i'm aware of...i've never heard it.
Neither of us have accents really... I guess I used to have a "cleveland" accent which is very subtle but I've lived in Columbus for 7 years and I lost it. I'm honestly not much for accents in general (especially the "typical" ones that girls like... southern and french... do not like! i know, I'm weird), but I have one exception: aussie! @texasgalah- you are a lucky lucky girl ;)
When Mr. Q speaks Spanish, I swoon every time. He could be telling me to take out the garbage and I wouldn't care. I am beginning to recognize many of his phases though and I love it. :) Although he is hispanic, he learned most of his Spanish in school.
We laugh about his "accent" quite a bit. Certain words will pop out with a hysterical flair... He'll say "Babe can you hand me my CHOOSE (instead of shoes)" I'm usually laughing so hard, he starts laughing too.
My other half is originally from Wigan in Lancashire, so he says certain words differently to other northerners. e.g. Hair = Hurr, Stairs = sturrs, there = thur,
sometimes its how things are phrased, e.g. could you put this in the oven = could you put this in th'oven
he sort of sounds a bit like this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmsADg_hc0
My accent is more like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP4VDWmc2L4&feature=related
I just love his accent, I have a thing about northern english accent. Southern england ones just don't do it for me!
FI doesn't have one, and I have a Southern one (so I'm told LOL)
Speaking of accents though, when I worked at Virginia Tech, there was a sous chef who worked there from New Zealand. Whenever I heard him say anything, I just wanted to throw myself on him!!! What is it about accents?? LOL sheeeesh
Irish accents really do it for me...I wish FI would have gone abroad to Ireland to study for a bit!!!
@Bamm - LOL, when we first moved here from Ireland my brothers were SO popular with women b/c of their accents!
I've lost my Irish accent except when I'm around Irish people :)
I have a slight French accent when I speak English but it really doesn't sound like the one from French people. My FI has the cutest accent when he speaks French tough!!
@immigrant bride..where in Canada are you from?
When I lived in Montreal I saw the cutest couple. She was speaking in French to him, and he was responding in English to her. And they had a perfectly normal conversations in two different languages at the same time. I wish I spoke enough Korean to carry on a conversation like that with FI.
@Red Tartan Mr.D always claimes a Geordie accent is the best one to have in England! Though, he himself has a northwest accent, but it isn't very broad.
We often laugh about different word pronounciations. For example, the skin care shop he and his brother own started sellign a brand called "Herban Cowboy" Which I thought was pretty funny since here it would be pronounced "Urban Cowboy". But to him, it was "Herb-an Cowboy" which sounds pretty lame.
Or that Porn and Pawn sound the same when he says them. Sometimes we have no idea what the other is actually talking about.
@Gingerlex Wigan! So close to where we were! Mr.D is originally from Hesham (near Morcambe) near Lancaster. Now his family is in Warton (near Carnforth) near Lancaster. His uncle has a very Cumbrian/Lanashire acent and sometimes I have no clue what he is saying.
@dorsay...porn and prawn! hillarious!!
Koreans have a hard time distinguishing between B/P/V/F...'parrot' and 'ferret' are the hardest for FI. Sometimes we play a game where I'll say...'what kind of animal is a ferret?' and after a long thought he'll say .... 'BIRD!' 'Z/J' are also big problems, so we've had some confusion between the words like 'Jew' and 'Zoo'. And then there's the billions of things I mispronounce in Korean!!
We don't have any big accent differences since I am from MI and he is from IN but even though we grew up only 1 state away, he says a lot of things that I'm like "huh??" For example, he calls a "pot luck" a "pitch in" and for vacuuming, he calls it "sweeping." It's funny!
Whenever FI talks with his family he breaks into Hawaiian-pidgin-English..It kinda weirded me out the first time I noticed him slip into it, lol.
@daydreamer, haha my guy is from michigan too! but thankfully he doesn't have that accent. whew. dodged that bullet. now if i can get him to quit trying to make me call soda "pop" we'll be all the merrier!
Ooooooh, yes. This is the number one perk of marrying an international! My husband has the cutest Italian accent. It is very charming and gets us a lot of free food at Italian restaurants!
@ Dorsay technically he lived in Leigh and went to school in Bolton so his accent sounds more Boltonny than Leigh/Wigan. Also throughout the UK we say the H in herbs. We think it's weird that you guys drop it ;) hehe. You are quite right about porn and pawn too :)
The ladies saying you have no accent....do you just mean you don't have a regional accent? EVERYBODY has an accent, it might not sound southern or like you're from the Bronx or wherever but it will still sound American to 'foreign' ears :)
@Gingerlex, the porn/prawn thing is awesome. I imagine that leads to some confusing dinner parties...
@CorgiTales, I do feel very fortunate indeed! Yummy, isn't it?
I do have an East Texas accent, I just don't notice it usually. But I'm actually quite glad to have it. I do say y'all, and I call all soda 'coke'. I enjoy putting it on really thick for my guy, he finds it cute.
There's actually a lot of variation between Southern US regional accents, and even within Texas, though Hollywood doesn't seem to realize this. An East Texas accent does differ from the West Texas accent. I lived out there for 8 years, and they speak with more of a nasal drawl than we do. From the little I've read, we Texans seem to have inherited some characteristics of the Kentucky and Tennessee accents, like the hard 'R', as a lot of people came here from up there.
My dad was from Mississippi, and he never lost his thick accent though he lived in Texas most of his life. It was hysterical when he'd go to, say, Ireland or Scotland or the north of England and carry on a conversation with some local fellas--no one knew what anyone else was saying, but they all seemed to speak the universal language of Good Ol' Boy. I'd love to hear him trying to chat with my fiance.
Any Southerner can tell who's from Texas, who's from Louisiana, from North Carolina, Mississippi--they all sound different to us. That weird generic 'Southern' accent you hear in movies is so fake!
you guys are cracking me up!
My boy was born in the US but if he starts talking with his family in Malaysia, the english words he drops in have a craaazy cute accent! Also, in Malaysia, it's common to say "La" at the end of stuff. I think its originally a Muslim thing, saying Allah, but everyone there says it, just randomly, like "Where are you going la?" or something...
He also says "on the light" and "off the tv" instead of TURN on/off which drives me crazy. And he has Malaysian pronunciation for some random words, like cashew (he calls them KAY-sh nuts) I love it, and can't help cracking up when something like that pops out of his mouth :)
@phillygirl: Did you ever hear Fabio from Top Chef speak? His Italian accent made me swoon! I love Italian accents!
@Bamm - we do that all the time! With me speaking English and FI speaking French...Glad you think it's cute, I figured people just thought we were crazy!
As for the accent, we mostly speak French so I don't get to hear FI's accent in English too often...And even when I do, it is very slight and not necessarily French sounding. But we do get funny situations with me or him confusing one word for another.
Mr. Doxie has a western Canadian accent that is alllmost British sounding, sometimes. It's definitely more audible in his parents' voices, but every once in a while I'll catch it with him : )
I also notice myself "speaking Canadian" whenever I visit for a week or two!
Ok, this is reallyreallyreally bad because it has nothing to do with FI but... I have an ex from England & he used to call me Lovely. He had one of those really low soft-toned voices and the "Hello, Lovely"... "would you like a drink lovely?"... "you look gorgeous tonight lovely." drove me ab-so-lutely insane. I know it's a UK thing to use the word a lot but I wasn't used to it & hoooly was it sexy.
I make my friends or family from the UK say the word helicopter because it's probably my FAVORITE word spoken with a British accent. It's more like: helly-kop-tah. So funny.
Im probably the only person with an accent where I live in Alabama so everywhere I go I get interviewed lol that's how I calle it haha. I'm spanish so I get asked all the time where Im from even tho I look completely american ;)
Almost off topic: At university our flat in halls was shared by me, another english guy, a scottish girl, a californian girl and two french guys. The french guys asked us how they should pronounce "rarely" and got 3 different answers!
@Dorsay Mr. D is right...but I'm a little biased 
This thread reminds me that I need to teach Mr. RT how to pronounce area street names in case he gets lost after moving here! A few weeks ago he mispronounced Sepulveda (Boulevard) as seh-pull-VEE-da, not seh-PULL-veh-duh - and we'd just watched Forbidden Zone (which includes the song "Pico and Sepulveda") the day before!
Mr.D had to get a-lum-in-um bottles engraved for the bridesmaids, but kept asking if they engraved al-loo-bin-i-mum b/c he couldn't remember what we say!
I love guys with accents, unfortunately, Mr. Lovebird doens't really have one. I make fun of him sometimes when he doesn't say things that are grammatically correct since he came to the USA when he was six, so sometimes he has a fobby accent.
haha, I used to mostly date bilingual men, or men that were at least good at their language classes....FI not so much, but he has so many other cute mannerisms, and we are talking about taking a language together now that I'm finishing grad school.
Am I the only girl here with a Scottish FI? It's funny, though, because I don't even notice his accent. Probably that's because I was living over there for the last 6 years, so it was the norm, and I was the odd one out. But, we're moving to the US soon, so we'll both have accents! I'm from New England, but we're moving down to Atlanta. Goodness knows what affect that will have on both of our accents!
@RedTartan: Whoever thinks Geordie and Scottish accents sound similar must not be listening properly!! Too funny. Went to a Hen Do in Newcastle this past spring; the accents were well entertaining!
@Emmalina, Scottish accents are yummy. Lucky you!
@RedTartan, I LOVE Forbidden Zone! I actually started humming that song reading your post, then cracked up when you mentioned it. I hear what you say about place names. I didn't even try to teach Spike how to pronounce San Jacinto, Seguin or Mexia. It wouldn't have been pretty.
@Dorsay, too right about the aluminum/aluminium thing. Spike and I tease each other about that one all the time.
Mr. Contrary is Romanian and ilovelovelove listening to his dulcet voice. For some reason, the Eastern Euro and Russian accents are sooo sexy sounding (at least to me).
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