Do you have a strong regional accent?

[Cin]

Originally Posted by Daniela

Right...we tend to forget that, here in the States. I also have a "generic" American accent.

Can you usually detect regional accents on Americans? I can't distinguish between different types of British accents. Sometimes it takes me a little while to tell whether it's Australian, South African or British.

That's an interesting question. I know here in Montreal, Anglophones can tell immediately I'm from Boston while Francophones mostly cannot.

[Daniela]

Originally Posted by Miss Tick

That's an interesting question. I know here in Montreal, Anglophones can tell immediately I'm from Boston while Francophones mostly cannot.

i guess it would make sense that a native English speaker of any kind would be better at distinguishing differences, although perhaps that's not the reason...who knows?! I can always tell when someone speaking Spanish has an Argentinian accent (they sound like my parents!), although I'm a little lost at picking up Cuban vs. Puerto Rican, for example.

[LOQUI]

Living in California but...made, born and raised in Puerto Rico...hmmm yes I definitively have an accent!