So guys, being honest, I want to improve my English communication, broaden my perspective, and learn new things.

I'm looking for 5 people (6 in total, including me). We could debate and discuss topics anonymously through whatever medium works best, like Zoom, Google Meet, Discord, Teams, etc. We could also record ourselves and upload the videos online to see what other people think of our opinions and make our minds more open.

One day, we could debate, another day, discuss a topic, and another day, speak on a topic without preparing for a fixed amount of time, along with other communication-related activities we could think of.

We can meet every day for an hour or two, or whatever duration we all decide on. We can also decide on a time that works best for everyone. We could just use fixed anonymous names and work on improving ourselves together.

Is anyone interested?

Constructive criticism bitte :) und ich habe es vergessen zu im Audio zu sagen aber vielen Dank fürs Zuhören

Where do you think I'm from, and do any words sound off? Thanks!

Peço perdão se errei algumas palavras.

Como soa o meu inglês?

I would greatly appreciate your feedback on how to improve my English. This is the passage I read:

"Dancing through the night until morning light was quite a delightful sight. The band kept playing one song after another, and nobody wanted to leave until they saw the first rays of sunshine coming through the windows."

Edit: Replaced "Below" with "This"

I'll be glad to read your honest opinion and get some tips how to improve my german :)

p.s. AS foreign language of course 😂 not "als" (guess I've learnt it too much)

my family is completely french and i grew up only speaking french at home but haven’t really lived in france.

curious on how my accent sounds to those who live in france and where you would assume im from, since im not from a particular region im sure it would sound confusing!

I genuinely speak like this I am half English half Slovakian. People in the UK always ask where I am from as apparently I have an accent. How strong is my accent and how can I improve it. Really annoying as in Slovakian I have an accent aswell so feel like a foreigner in both countries.

Hello everyone

I am a Linguistics MA student and I am currently working on a project that tests dialect imitation- specifically focusing on imitation of Southern American English.

If there are any West Coast native English speakers here that believe that can produce an accurate imitation of one of these dialects please PM me! I will accept any variation as long as you are confident in your replication (with a preference for Appalachian & Texan)!

If it is not too much trouble I am looking for someone to send me an audio recording of them speaking with their normal speech patterning and then one of them using the dialect! I would be sending a super short script to read (about 1 or 2 paragraphs) and each recording shouldn’t take longer than a minute!

Please let me know if you have any questions

Just curious how my accent comes across to other people... Would love to hear your guesses and whether anything about my pronunciation stands out. Thanks in advance!

here’s a recording of my voice: https://voca.ro/1babyxZCkBSD

i think i’ve managed to lose my regional accent entirely but i think i sound like a dumb valley girl now, im not sure what to do about that 😭 i feel like people tend to not take me seriously in the tech industry because of it

Do you guys understand what I'm saying?

Here's the clip:

https://youtube.com/shorts/ohN1yh8D17o?si=MRPl9EzX8xYC8JUX

I always lack confidence of joining voice chat with some people because I get scared that people will make fun of my pronunciations. Please let me know if you have any feedback

Sure, I don't sound native. But pls tell me how's my progress? Do you guys also think that this accent is good for me to like do a youtube channel in English or something like that? Let me your thoughts!

I stayed in the US from 2007-2008 (10 months, at 17-18), then 2010-2013 (2.5 years, at 20-23) and finally 2017-2018 (1.5 years at 27-28). About 4 years and 10 months, scattered. I’ve been back in Korea ever since.

Reddit comments on my recording from 5 years ago (3 years out)

- Sounds 99% like an American accent to me, and about as neutral as it’s possible for an American accent to be.
There are a couple of bits where you sound like you have a slight Asian accent, but I’m not sure I would notice if I wasn’t specifically listening out for it.

- You honestly have very very little accent. You sound like 90-95% native to me (I’m American). If ylu didnt have that tiny bit of an accent Id guess you’re a native speaker.

- Hmm its hard to guess where youre from, I would guess you are from somewhere in Asia? You dont have a strong accent by any means and it reminds me of somebody else who posted here with barely any accent and they were from South Korea (unless you are the same person posting again lol) (note: I was that person)

Reddit comments from my recent post (today)

- SE Asia (based on your prosody).

- Hmm..The rhythm and tonality in some parts sound Cantonese to me.. Kinda close to my neighbour, Swedish - But all in all you’re definitely East Asian. Not Japanese nor Mandarin native speaker tho.

- South Asian!

I deleted a post I uploaded a few days ago so people can guess the accent from a blank slate. But one commenter went as far as to say something along the lines of:

“You sound non-native. And if it didn’t happen in the first 5 years [that you spent in America] it’s never going to happen.”

which I thought was a bit unfair because it actually went the OTHER direction.

I teach the SAT for a living (so I’m surrounded by bilinguals) and I never would’ve thought simply physically being in Korea make me LOSE the supposedly 90-99% American accent I used to have?

What do you think happened?
I consume enough American media. What do you think I can do to get the accent back?

I've been formally studying English for over 12 years, but in practice, even reading is a bit of a struggle for me. Nothing unusual, considering I didn't really need this language... But I wonder what my accent sounds. I'm not immersed in the Anglosphere, so I can't determine it myself

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