/r/JudgeMyAccent
Upload a sound file of you talking in a language you're learning and post it in this subreddit. Native speakers of this particular language will tell you how to improve your accent.
Ever wondered how you sound speaking your second, third or fourth language? Is it difficult to understand you when you talk, or have you achieved such a high level of proficiency that you almost sound like a native?
In r/JudgeMyAccent, you can get an answer to all those questions. Here is what you need to do:
Visit a sound sharing website and record yourself speaking your language of choice. The most popular service is Vocaroo.
Post a link to your recording to this subreddit.
You can either include the language in the title of the post or add a flair yourself.
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/r/JudgeMyAccent
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Guess where im from based on my accent !!
also feel free to rate/judge my accent and give feedback, i yapped quite a bit. i feel like my accent changes from time to time, like one sentence is like a standard american accent and another is more like southern?? and then it changes again
12:27 UTC
Rate my English accent
Can you guys guess where I’m from? Also any advice on how I can improve is welcome.
21:40 UTC
Non-native Italian: Judge my accent!
Transcript
Se quindi, teniamo presente che le forme del linguaggio possono essere letteralmente infinite diventa invece impressionante osservare quanto si assomigliano fra loro certe lingue, soprattutto le microunità di linguaggio portatrice di un significato, le parole in estrema sintesi. A volte alcune parole si assomigliano per caso. In inglese, per esempio, “pen”, che vuol dire “penna”, quella che usiamo per scrivere e “pencil”, cioè “matita”, condividono i primi tre suoni e al nostro orecchio ci appaiono come vicine. In realtà, hanno una origine diversissima: “pen” è un riflesso del latino “penna”, cioè la penna di uscello che si intingeva nell’inchiostro con cui si scriveva sui papiri e pergamene; “pencil” invece deriva dall’antico francese “pincel”, che a sua volta deriva dal latino “penicillus”, cioè “pennello”, questo perché la matita si è essenzialmente sviluppata da un pennello in cui intorno al 1600 dopo cristo, i peli sono stati sostituiti con un piccolo cilindro di grafite. In lingua inglese il nome è rimasto quello di un tempo e quindi “pencil”. La parola latina “penicillus” a sua volta deriva da “penis”, che in latino significa coda, probabilmente perchè i peli del pennello erano ricavate dalle code di animali, che capite però sono assai diverse dalle penne.
Audio
17:10 UTC
Where's Youtuber Brock McGoff's accent from?
To me it sounds particularly similar to Jodie Foster's (especially in the way they pronounce the sibilants), which after a cursory search I found people identify it as West Virginian, Appalachian or Southern Mountain English. I'm unsure though.
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuzRJDf3vss
I asked in r/EnglishLearning but I got no answer, hopefully this doesn't break the sub's rules.
16:08 UTC
Can you identify my accent?
10:45 UTC
Woher komme ich und auch was kann ich verbessern wenn nötig
10:42 UTC
Tips para caerle bien a un profe estricto y chapado a la antigua????
23:41 UTC
Woher komme ich und was kann ich verbessern?
23:09 UTC
Tried both standard British and American accent, which do I sound the most convincing? (non-native)
Apologies for the background noise, this was hastely recorded in a busy restaurant
UK Accent: https://vocaroo.com/12j7EjRFSmE5
US Accent: https://vocaroo.com/1gzLMaxkUnPl
What I'm reading:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language
Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and signed forms, and may also be conveyed through writing. Human language is characterized by its cultural and historical diversity, with significant variations observed between cultures and across time.[1] Human languages possess the properties of productivity and displacement, which enable the creation of an infinite number of sentences, and the ability to refer to objects, events, and ideas that are not immediately present in the discourse. The use of human language relies on social convention and is acquired through learning.
Kinda fucked myself over by picking a passage with long and wordy sentences, Should've picked the simple English Wikipedia version, but oh well, it's more of a challenge lol. Btw. Does my voice sound different between the two?
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18:57 UTC
Where do you think I am from [English}
11:17 UTC
Curious cause I've been asked where my accent was from a couple times.
Do I have an accent? Speech impediment/lisp? I do speak another language fluently and frequently at home.
02:15 UTC
Guess what accent I have!
Here is a video of me speaking.
19:25 UTC
Judge my accent in German and guess where I'm from!
Alllso... los gehts! Vielen Dank im Voraus!
13:21 UTC
05:35 UTC
How would you rank my accent from 1 to 100
23:33 UTC
Where do I sound to be from?
I wrote that poem, it is dedicated to my stepfather's memory.
17:47 UTC
Can you guess where I’m from (and a bonus question)
Hi everybody, I’ve made a quick audio and I wondered if the community could answer a couple questions about it ? For context, I am living in Canada at the moment and often Canadians cannot pin point my accent and many also ask if I’m from a certain country! I think its pretty obvious where I’m from but my experiences in the great white North have me second guessing. So can you guess the following : 1:the country people mistake as my home country. 2:The country (and region if you fancy) that I am actually from.
03:33 UTC
What does my accent in Spanish sound like?
03:12 UTC
ABC re-learning Mandarin Chinese. Tell me how my accent is and how I can improve.
17:15 UTC
12:44 UTC
What would you say about my accent? Where am I from?
Here's the sample: https://voca.ro/178i7m6fgbxd
I'm really curious, so please leave a comment if you have the time.
EDIT: I'll reveal where I'm from after 24 hours
EDIT2: I'm Polish, as some of you correctly guessed
12:33 UTC
Hi! Please Judge my american accent! And guess where am actually from! :)
This is my first post on here. I'd really like to know how much of an American i sound like and if I can pass as an American AND what are the things that I can work on to sound more like a native speaker. If you do think I sound american, do let me know which part of the US I sound like I could be from. Really curious to know!
Audio: https://voca.ro/1c1TULuUABhD
10:49 UTC
judge my accent while speaking korean
1년 한국어 배우고 있어요. 근데 제 한국어는 조금 나빠요. 저는 유창하지 않아요. 제 생각해 제 목소리는 너무너무 외국인처럼. 너의 생각 주세요, 이건 도와줄 거예요.
for a year, i’ve been learning korean. but my korean is a bit bad. i‘m not fluent. i think that my accent sounds too foreign. please give your thoughts, it will help me.
09:55 UTC