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Can anyone please characterize that accent/cadence to me?!? It reminds me very strongly of an accent I've been hearing on tech support telephone call frequently
by jessriedel 6y ago
Can anyone please characterize that accent/cadence to me?!? It reminds me very strongly of an accent I've been hearing on tech support telephone call frequently in the past 5 years but never recalled hearing before that. I have a pet theory that it's actually from a new technique for more rapidly teaching intelligible English pronunciation to folks learning it as a second language. But maybe it's just an accent from a region that only recently started hosting lots of tech support calls?
- zandor 6y agoDutch.
- ehnto 6y agoSounds like a Northern to North Eastern European accent to me. But I will say that YouTubers have their own accents that permeate different genres of videos as well, which can add ambiguity. My favourite accent tidbit is the English voice of the Shinkansen in Japan. It is voiced by an Australian, imitating a Canadian, who was imitating a British accent. The result is a totally ambiguous accent that sounds almost disconnected from geography. I say that as an Australian with a british twang.
- interestica 6y ago> But I will say that YouTubers have their own accents that permeate different genres of videos as well, which can add ambiguity. That's like the modern version of the "mid-Atlantic" accent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
- lovemenot 6y agoFairly sure that's a native Dutch speaker. e.g. "Thingss" rather than "thingz"
- jessriedel 6y agoHmm, you could be right of course, but I had a few Dutch friends in grad school and this did not remind me of their accents at all.
- lovemenot 6y agoI lived in Rotterdam for a while before internet was so widespread. It's a Dutch person. They were always good at English and sounded like this.
- tdumitrescu 6y agoNothing new, engineered, or special about it, that's a bog-standard Dutch accent.
- blunte 6y agoI would not consider this representative of any Dutch accent I've heard from living in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, or Nijmegen. Nor even for the strange Zeeland Belgian accents. This sounds like an odd Russian Dutch English combination.
- acqq 6y agoThe author's twitter account: Location: "Amsterdam & Everywhere" https://twitter.com/DANNYonPC https://twitter.com/DANNYonPC
- brnt 6y ago100% Dutch accent. I wish we could pin it down to a teaching technique, this is just how we sound.