For you Kim, I’ll do it for free!
I’ve wondered, what kind of accent do you have? And in all honesty, my favourite accent is the Irish accent 💜
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I have a very boring, undistinctive, almost-any-American-on-TV-or-in-a-movie has it accent. Oddly, I've heard it referred to before as an "Ohio" accent, even though I never lived in Ohio. They also said in school that programs for broadcasting actually teach this accent in the classes if you don't already have it. It's a great accent for others; for me, not so much. I always wanted something a little more exotic, to go with my personality.
I grew up in the North, and the saddest thing I ever saw was when Southern friends were transplanted to the North and somehow made to feel ashamed of their accent.
They would spend years trying to erase it, which I thought was a terrible tragedy.
I personally consider it a tragedy that I'm not very good a imitating accents at all (I grew up in the States so I can't even do a passable rendition of an Asian accent.)
Funny enough, a good number of the friends I've made here on CC are from the South, which I've always been fascinated with. It's almost like God's trying to tell me something.
Aussie and Kiwi accents have always been two of my favorites, along with Welsh, Irish, Scottish (I would love to go to every country in the UK someday, mainly for the accents!), and in the past several years, French, Italian, Spanish and Mexican... Shoot, just about any accent is magical to me as long as I get enough time to learn to understand it. To me, a good accent is like a favorite melody of a good song, and something that can be played over and over.
I always said that the right person with the right accent could chew me out night and day, and when they were finished, I'd just sigh dreamily and ask them to say that all over again.