Chris Ecclestone's accent was such a joy to hear on Doctor Who for us northerners
And for this Canadian, I tell you. I loved his voice and everything about it.
I suppose the Scots might feel the same way about David Tennant not using his own accent.
I wish he had. I don't dislike his Doctor voice but I love his Tennant voice so much more.
Apart from being able to tell if an American accent is northern or southern I can't tell regions, so I wouldn't worry about being able to tell where a British accent is from.
Sadly, I'm hopeless with American accents as well. They say that people from Minnesota sound like Canadians. Which makes a certain geographical sense.
I can tell national French accents apart - I'm mostly used to the French Canadian accent, of course, but I can differentiate Parisian French from Southern French, and then there's the Moroccan and the Caribbean French (which I also hear a lot). Sometimes it just depends where my French high school teachers were from!
I have trouble understanding people from the north end of the city!
LOL! I am used to Canada, where you can travel a thousand miles or more and get the same accent. In England, you just have to cross the street...!
And of course, living in London, I heard all sorts of English accents all the time, and never knew where they were from, except in a few cases. I was just struggling to understand them all.
English people tended to think I sounded Irish, and when I was in Ireland, I thought most people didn't have an accent. Probably because Ottawa was largely settled by the Irish.
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Date: 2009-04-04 03:17 pm (UTC)And for this Canadian, I tell you. I loved his voice and everything about it.
I suppose the Scots might feel the same way about David Tennant not using his own accent.
I wish he had. I don't dislike his Doctor voice but I love his Tennant voice so much more.
Apart from being able to tell if an American accent is northern or southern I can't tell regions, so I wouldn't worry about being able to tell where a British accent is from.
Sadly, I'm hopeless with American accents as well. They say that people from Minnesota sound like Canadians. Which makes a certain geographical sense.
I can tell national French accents apart - I'm mostly used to the French Canadian accent, of course, but I can differentiate Parisian French from Southern French, and then there's the Moroccan and the Caribbean French (which I also hear a lot). Sometimes it just depends where my French high school teachers were from!
I have trouble understanding people from the north end of the city!
LOL! I am used to Canada, where you can travel a thousand miles or more and get the same accent. In England, you just have to cross the street...!
And of course, living in London, I heard all sorts of English accents all the time, and never knew where they were from, except in a few cases. I was just struggling to understand them all.
English people tended to think I sounded Irish, and when I was in Ireland, I thought most people didn't have an accent. Probably because Ottawa was largely settled by the Irish.