What Type Of Accent Do I Have

I mostly agree with what others have said: pretty impressive for a foreigner, with just a few odd words in there—but not enough for me to determine where you are from, as the oddities could place you anywhere from England to Kenya to Singapore. (Singapore is my guess, not sure why.)We’ve mentioned response and organization already. I’ll add one more: your vowels were all good in November, but I would expect stress on the second stress from an American. Initial-syllable accent sounds British (and may well extend through the Commonwealth too).I think rental is fine either with or without the pronounced t; it really depends where you are from and how fast you are talking.A couple of subtle distinguishing characteristics might come out in more samples. For example, there was no chance to test for distinctions between vowels in cot and caught; merry, Mary and marry; father, farther and bother; or writer and rider. Most of those are not dealbreakers, given the diversity of American speech, but might make your accent sound inconsistent to a careful listener if they don’t match.I’ll also point out that people will probably notice minor accent irregularities less than odd vocabulary words and syntactic regionalisms, so at a certain point you should start focusing on those.

Firstly, I would say you have an unusually good English accent, and I’d guess an exceptional ear for languages.It’s a little hard to say which accent, because it varies over the course of the recording. (Also it’s not a great quality recording, and the barking dog doesn’t help!)At the beginning it sounded like MLE, especially the more middle-class variant of it, sometimes verging on RP. The glottal stops and l-vocalisation in words like “still” are basically perfect, and I noticed a bit of th-fronting too. But you retain initial /h/, which again is correct for MLE.Then after a while some more Northern vowels came in, like /ʊ/ in “up”.Then suddenly there is one sentence that goes American. First you pronounce “route” to rhyme with “lout” rather than “loot”. Then you pronounce the /r/ in “course” (you do this a couple of times elsewhere too, “service” I think is one of them, and a couple more are sort of halfway-rhotic). And then you pronounce “path” as /æ/ - again American; MLE or RP would have /ɑː/ and Northern accents mostly /a/.Your consonants are basically perfect. The biggest thing to work on is probably the diphthong in PRICE: your onset vowel is often too close, like an old-fashioned RP /aɪ̯/. It should be more like /ɑɪ̯/. Also sometimes your /ɪ/ drifts too high, almost to /i/.If I had to guess your first language (without having seen your Greek-looking username) I would say one of the Scandinavian ones - your vowels sometimes sound a bit like a Swedish friend of mine who has lived in England for over a decade and has a near-flawless MLE accent.

Yes. Everyone has an accent, no matter where they live. Our own accents sound neutral to our ears, simple because they are the accents we are most familiar with.In Ohio we have a few different accents. In the north (where I live) we speak Inland Northern American English. Once you drive an hour south of Lake Erie you start to hear north Midland American English while in areas farther south they speak south Midland American English. You will also hear variations within these regions. When I drive to Canton (a bit more than an hour south of Cleveland) some people sound as though they have a hint of a southern accent.A friend of mine from Columbus once wondered if I had a New England accent rather than a Cleveland accent because I sounded so different from his aunt who lived in Garfield Heights. I went to college in Maine, but I grew up in Shaker Heights which is just 11 miles away from Garfield Heights. My friend’s Aunt and I had slightly different accents even though we both grew up in Cleveland suburbs which fall in the Inland Northern region.Inland Northern American used to be one of the groups considered to be General American, but came to be known as something more distinct with the emergence of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift.

Sounds like Midwestern or Western US to me. The "fer" instead of "for" probably gives you away as growing up in a rural area. (I catch myself saying "fer" sometimes). But you don't sound foreign. Not even Canadian.It's such a short clip, though, it's hard to say.A woman in Maine once told me she thought I sounded like a New Zealander. (I'm from Indiana.) But my lips were half frozen.

To my ear I would say pretty standard middle class south east accent (somewhat RP), with a slight "London Twang"... This sort of accent became prominent in the mid 90's with the rise of britpop, and the middle class vs working class band wars (See Blur vs Oasis).My own accent has become really quite similar, having grown up on a Middle Class Island off the south coast of England and then moving to London 15 years ago.