Which of these accents sound normal to you?

I don't hear any of those accents on a daily basis.

California and Seattle sound the most like people around me. In fact, I didn't notice much of a difference between the two. Whoever told this girl that people in South Carolina sound this was pulling her leg. People in SC talk country, not like they are from Gone with the Wind.

That was like a really creepy Watch With Mother. The North London one is the only one I wouldn't really pick up on.

The Seattle one sounds the most accentless to me. The California one also sounds normal, although there I do hear a little bit of an accent. That's the one I grew up with, and that I probably have.

It's probably the one I'd least pick up on, but I still don't know anyone who actually talks like that. I'd probably be thinking, "She's a bit posh, wot's she doin' 'ere?".

I wouldn't take much notice of the first London Accent and the Seattle.

And she got the Toronto access completely wrong - no one talks like that.

Both of the Australian ones, though they're laid on a bit thick.

> I wouldn't take much notice of the first
> London Accent and the Seattle.
>
> And she got the Toronto access completely
> wrong - no one talks like that.

Completely true nobody in Toronto talks like she did.

I'm trying to think what part of Canada they do speak like that...

And of course I should be thinking something along the lines of 'Ey, ar kid, check i' ou'.' I've been told I have quite a posh accent (but then, this is from people from Salford).

At least she didn't say aboot insted of about

None I could not even figure this out just clueless as can be

I don't see a Chicago accent...south side to be specific.

I can't listen to the video, so I didn't bother. I know what all those accents sound like. None of them would sound like mine. The closest would be Toronto, but they tend to talk a lot faster and run words together.

She could probably get a bit part in The Bill with the second London accent - it has a posh undercurrent which is a little odd, but it's better than the first London accent which has a lot of Aussie in it. The third London accent is not one that I've encountered anywhere except the Queen's speech and bad US actors attempting to do British. I knew a lot of posh people during my first degree and none of them sounded like that! The Irish accents don't sound too bad, but they do veer a bit too close to stereotypical ones rather than sounding like real Irish and Northern Irish people that I've known. The Scottish is not good at all. Harder to judge the European accents as people who don't speak English as a first language usually sound a little odd when they speak English (with their accents being largely dependent on who taught them English).

The first Australian accent sounds okay to me - but I haven't known many Aussies so I'm basing that on being forced to watch occasional episodes of Neighbours/Home and Away at friends' houses. The second Australian accent sounds like she's trying to do an Australian man which doesn't really work. The New Zealand accent didn't sound at all like the only New Zealander I've ever known.

The California accent sounds almost exactly like one of my friends who is from California - probably the best (to my ear) of all of them. I've also known quite a few Canadians and they do not sound at all like that Toronto accent, but I'm not sure if any of the Canadians I knew were from that area. IMpossible for me to judge the other North American accents as we don't get much exposure to them here - I had a professor from Chicago recently and was surprised by how distinctive his accent was (and not one that you hear on ER or Chicago Hope!)

I did not understand much of the languages she spoke, but I could not take my eyes off her lips! (sic).

..yeah these three of them was very lucid & normal accent !!