Does my accent give away which country I come from?

Sun 7 Mar 2010

Posted by 馬先生 under Language

4 Responses to “ Does my accent give away which country I come from? ”

小瓶子 says:
March 7th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
The background sound is very loud, can’t hear you very well.
Mariano says:
March 20th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Where are you from???? From Hong Kong or Australia. You are loosing your accent be carefull dont be so cantonese. Is a Joke well in fact your cantonese sound more native than your english. 你是哪个人？你係邊度人呀？
Mark says:
April 20th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Hey, your accent sounds English until 14 seconds into the clip, then its sounds Aussie.
Laurent says:
May 10th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Hi there, i found your blog from a link on “The linguist” blog, and have been browsing a bit through the quite interesting content.

I am currently learning mandarin but originally started out with cantonese, and I am hoping to get at it after I get my mandarin smooth enough ^^

Now, I am a native french speaker so I’ll indulge in a little comment on your few french phrases. It was a bit of a short extract to make a good appreciation, but anyway I didn’t find much of an english nor Aussie accent in the sentences you spoke, instead, and curiously, you somehow had a chinese or rather Vietnamese intonation…
You might interestingly receive a certain influence from the cantonese you are studying on your french, rather than your native (?) english…