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[quote=zilam98;29615129]and what about korean, german, french, chinese, etc? how do they compare to filipino english accents?[/
I find it hard understanding Chinese English... Strange mainland Chinese and Chinese from Hongkong and Macau have the same accent when they speak English. They sound so nasal.
I love French English... It's so sexy to me. It's like they are still speaking French. I love French English and Spanish English ( Antonio Banderas' English accent is really sexy ).
Filipino English accent sounds funny to the ears of North Americans, Brits, and Australians.
what i was really asking about was their syllabic accent, if those other nationalities that dont speak english as native language (e.g. germans, russians, chinese, koreans, japanese, french, thai, saudi arabians etc) have more consistently correct syllable accenting compared to filipinos'.
dont just say filipino english accent sounds funny if you havent even heard other nations who dont speak english natively when they speak english. try to be rational, won't you?
I wonder if Brits find American accent funny as well since it is very different from theirs.
Kiwi accent is kind of weird and funny to me. I guess it is the funnniest one to me among the English Native Speakers. They pronounce the " Red " " Read " .
I learned from professor John McWhorter that Tagalog varies in shades from north to south Phillipines. The farther the distance, the harder to understand.
I wonder if Brits find American accent funny as well since it is very different from theirs.
Kiwi accent is kind of weird and funny to me. I guess it is the funnniest one to me among the English Native Speakers. They pronounce the " Red " " Read " .
Well yeah, and even within the USA there is so much variety of accents. I remember a few times I could hardly understand what someone from another part of the USA was saying.
That's the nature of human language--differences are the rule, not the exception. TV and movies keep some similarity going, but variation is the norm.
Well yeah, and even within the USA there is so much variety of accents. I remember a few times I could hardly understand what someone from another part of the USA was saying.
That's the nature of human language--differences are the rule, not the exception. TV and movies keep some similarity going, but variation is the norm.
i agree. in as much as there are different nationalities existing, with variations in each nationality, there should be diversity in languages as well. no language should be seen or heard as funny just because it's different.
The important thing is that we communicate with people from other places instead of closing off our world. That is important if you want to learn more. If we disregard people because we don't understand them, and we make no effort to understand them, we are limiting our comprehension to our own little part of the world, when we could be learning more. I have lived in different places and I have learned so much everywhere. Honestly.
and what about korean, german, french, chinese, etc? how do they compare to filipino english accents?
See my previous post re. accent versus the suprasegmental issue in Filipino-English. The reason it sounds odd to many Western ears is the emphasis on the "wrong" syllable or the "wrong" word in the sentence, its not an accent issue per se. In any event, Filipino-English is its own brand of English, which is fine.
As one other poster maintained - communication is the key - as long as we can communicate thats all that matters!
However, the poster with the normative ideal that each langauge should be sound-neutral to all listeners is silly, just some PC idea. If you don't understand the vocabulary, then a language is just a series of sounds to which you will have a non-language response. Mandarin sounds pleasantaly sing-songy to me, Japanese sounds angry sometimes and sultry other times, german sounds officious, Italian mellifluous etc etc.. To pretend that each sound has equal effect on each individual is daft. We can rationalize it sure, but to pretend there is no emotive response prior to that rationalization ....... uh huh if you wanna pretend go ahead
See my previous post re. accent versus the suprasegmental issue in Filipino-English. The reason it sounds odd to many Western ears is the emphasis on the "wrong" syllable or the "wrong" word in the sentence, its not an accent issue per se. In any event, Filipino-English is its own brand of English, which is fine.
As one other poster maintained - communication is the key - as long as we can communicate thats all that matters!
However, the poster with the normative ideal that each langauge should be sound-neutral to all listeners is silly, just some PC idea. If you don't understand the vocabulary, then a language is just a series of sounds to which you will have a non-language response. Mandarin sounds pleasantaly sing-songy to me, Japanese sounds angry sometimes and sultry other times, german sounds officious, Italian mellifluous etc etc.. To pretend that each sound has equal effect on each individual is daft. We can rationalize it sure, but to pretend there is no emotive response prior to that rationalization ....... uh huh if you wanna pretend go ahead
of course, we all know that anyone who doesnt speak english as first language is bound to have less than ideal/perfect/correct english communication skills.
what im asking is if the germans, koreans, russians, chinese, japanese, french, etc--any nationality that is non-native english speaking--have better/more consistently correct syllable accenting compared to filipinos. i did NOT say about their pronunciation. i get what you're pointing at. like say the word "accurate". in native english speaking, the correct accent should be on the first syllable, but filipinos tend to accent the second syllable. now, do those non-native english speaking nationalities accent the same way as the filipinos or are they more consistently correct with their syllable accenting?
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