English
16 June 2009
This is an interesting video I first saw yesterday of Seattle-born actress Amy Walker speaking in twenty-one different accents. Part of what her aim is is to replicate not only the consonant and vowel sounds of the people who live in the region, but also the tone and mannerisms.
At the end, she talks about the ‘trans-Atlantic accent she was trained in in 1945’—that’s the typical pronunciation of news broadcasters in both England and America in that time period.
17 June 2009
I liked this! Her mannerisms are very authentic. (At least for the accents I’m familiar with.) Interesting that she had three different accents for ‘London, England’. I liked the second one (Cockney) best.
23 June 2009
Hey, that was pretty neat. I’m friends with Amy and she sent me this link. I liked all of them, except for the Charleston one. Being from the south, I know there are many different southern accents, and actually, the Texas accent is closest to the way I talk. But I think the other one sounds kinda fake. She still did an awesome job.
23 June 2009
Actually, her imitation Charleston accent was one of my brother’s favourites, but yes, it did seem a little put on.
24 June 2009
ha, that’s funny. And maybe there are really some people who talk like that, but it just seems to me that when actors/actresses try to do a Southern one, it’s that one. And they usually try to hard too :) The trans-Atlantic accent was cool, I think.