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Thread ID: 110425	2010-06-16 21:55:00	How do I get rid of my accent?	Renmoo (66)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1110857	2010-06-17 12:26:00	Hope you do a good job of it. Could be a bit embarrassing if the locals think you are making fun of themIt wasn't a particularly good native rendition, and I was clearly a tourist speaking with a Yorkshire 'accent'. A guy at the B&B (in York) where I was staying asked me why I was speaking with that accent, and until he mentioned it I did not realise I was doing this. I had picked up on his accent and just mirrored it back. :blush: I think he thought I was just strange, and not trying to make fun of anyone. :rolleyes:	Jen (38)
1110858	2010-06-17 12:27:00	As long as you keep your head still.Keep your racial comments off the forum please.	Jen (38)
1110859	2010-06-18 03:08:00	Asians have problems pronouncing 'R' sounds. So Rice ends up sounding like Lice. If you are that worried go to a voice coach or just talk really fast like most kiwis do and then they will understand you. No problem with the pronounciation of the word "rice" over here. However, my tongue tends to get twisted when I try to say "long ruler".	Renmoo (66)
1110860	2010-06-18 03:10:00	Yeah just stop speaking Japanese to your friends and try to hang out with some maori kids a bit more at school and you should be alright. And I can't speak Japanese. :p	Renmoo (66)
1110861	2010-06-18 03:13:00	Hanging out with other Asians with the thick accents all the time won't help. I think the reasons as to the persistence of my accent when I'm tired/bored/don't want to talk are that I still speak with my family extensively in Indonesian, and when I don't want to talk then I don't maintain that subconscious ability to speak NZ English in a more understandable accent. This is quite true with respect to my situation. People tend to prompt me to repeat myself again when I greet them in the morning after having just woken up.	Renmoo (66)
1110862	2010-06-18 03:14:00	Congratulations Jamuz. Having met you a couple of times, your accent is fine - even though it's obvious you're from either Malaysia or Singapore (bit of a "singlish" accent), your English is perfectly understandable, and you speak quite clearly which helps as well. Whenever I speak to natives (I would regard you as one :p), I tend to consciously slow down my speech so that they are able to comprehend the points that I am trying to convey. :)	Renmoo (66)
1110863	2010-06-18 03:15:00	Start your own chemist shop up in South Auckland but keep a shottie under the counter. Nah. I am into academia, not business. :)	Renmoo (66)
1110864	2010-06-18 03:16:00	Regarding picking up an accent, I have this annoying habit of unconsciously mimicking local accents. I had this pointed out to me several times when touring England much to my embarrassment. A few years back we employed a bunch of lads from a backpackers in Auckland, A few poms, a couple Scottish, and an Irish man. Within a week near everybody else at work had adopted some mishmash of the lot of them, some worse then others but lunchtime chatter had taken on a completely different sound. A couple of our Kiwi lads got to the point that the overseas visitors could not understand them, and it was bizarre to see Tank whose a big black tattood toothless super Maori fulla talking away in an Irish accent.	Metla (12)
1110865	2010-06-18 03:16:00	Was talking in an Irish accent to a Scottish guy one night. Woke up the next morning with a sore jaw. Apparently they're not the same thing, who would've known. :D	Renmoo (66)
1110866	2010-06-18 03:32:00	I've been here for a while and although Im not born here there are alot of people that say they can't hear my accent. Just keep talking. Some people don't like the NZ accent and some hate the American accent . Just don't worry about it . I'm sure some girl will come along one day and admire your cute accent	Ninjabear (2948)
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