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Apart from (and also emphasising) what others have already mentioned: American English (AE) is a rhotic English accent, essentially meaning that the letter 'r'
by BjoernKW 6y ago
Apart from (and also emphasising) what others have already mentioned: American English (AE) is a rhotic English accent, essentially meaning that the letter 'r' is pronounced when it occurs at the end of a syllable (whereas with many British English or Southern hemisphere accents it isn't).
The Dutch 'r' phoneme sounds similar to the AE one. Hence, Dutch English speakers will naturally sound more American even if they don't have an actual American accent (which might indeed very well be the case due to said influence from American TV shows).
- Mediterraneo10 6y ago> The Dutch 'r' phoneme sounds similar to the AE one. The Dutch realization of /r/ differs from dialect to dialect within the Netherlands and Flanders, and only a small minority of Dutch speakers have something like the American version. It is true that Dutch speakers often have good accents, but this is due to massive exposure to American culture, not the rhotics of Dutch themselves.
- mtts 6y ago> The Dutch 'r' phoneme sounds similar to the AE one. Only in the West. But there it is so strong that speakers of other languages affect an "American" r when they speak Dutch thinking it is the sound used in Dutch. It isn't, though, and by using the "American" r they end up sounding like spoiled upper class teenagers.