Try to imitate them. Like make that an active effort to parrot various accents whether written or spoken. Eetz fun and you'll shtart to pick on ze details quwite clowsslee
Even study accents. Watch some YouTube vids by professional voice coaches. You'll get to where you can pick out clues about where someone might be from based on aspects of their accent.
I just do this for fun.
The last sentence is just perfect
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Multiculturalism and it's consequences (good ones).
As someone with a slight accent: good. I want you to hear what I'm saying, not my accent.
Regardless, active listening is the way to go. Learn what to listen for and maybe try to actively place the accent once you recognize the markers.
Just please listen to the words first.
You can always tell someone with a really strong accent because they say they have a slight accent lol
Lol true
To OP's point, my friends say I don't have an accent, but the number of people who ask me where I'm from says otherwise.
I wish.. I have the opposite problem. I work with people from many different countries and my brain gets utterly scrambled by constantly switching between accents. Sometimes it gets so bad that I, an Australian, cannot understand a person from New Zealand. It all just registers as random noise. I've been in this job for 8 years and I really try but it doesn't get any better and it's quite embarrassing.
Be autistic and you probably won't get used to accents...lol. One of my traits is the inability to form habits or "get used to" things in general.
The things that we call accents are just collections and patterns of speech variation, usually regional or class-based. Each individual has their own minor variations, depending on their speech communities and life experience. So, you're kinda right to hear them as a bunch of individual voices.
But if you're interested in tuning back into accents, you can start learning / spotting the features that mark the difference. Do they pronounce an 'R' at the end of a word? Or just use a long vowel? Would they pronounce cot and caught the same?
Once you start noticing, its less about matching an accent to a stereotype, and more about understanding all the interesting ways that speech variation occurs.
No idea. I don't think I have an accent but people who aren't Canadian think I do.
Interestingly my friend's sister moved with her twins to Australia when they were 5, and when they returned one has an Australian accent and the other does not.
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