Which Accents/Impressions can you do?

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I do Ahnold Swarzchentzeneghere's accent pretty well.
I can also do English, French, Scottish, Irish, Jamaican, Mexican, Chinese, Russian, and Austrailian accents.

I do Texan, NewYorker, and Minnesotan accents.

I can do a Bill Clinton, a G.W., a Sean Connery, and quite a few other impressions. One that I keep working on but can't seem to do is Christopher Walken. I'm sure if I practiced more it would come...

What kind of accents can you do? I'm interested to see if some non-Americans can do an American accent.
 
I can do an overly exaggerated typical hollywood style american accent, australian ( i sort of mutter blakes posts to myself in ozzie accent:D) geordie, jamaican!
 
Australian, British, Scottish, Irish, German, Jamaican, Spanish, Chinese/Japanese, Texan, New Yorker/New Jersey, old man, and pirate. :D

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few, though.
 
Apparently I can sound exactly like Jimmy Swanson from south park, all my friend's say that and even ask Dunc, he knows...
 
Integra Type R
Australian, British, Scottish, Irish, German, Jamaican, Spanish, Chinese/Japanese, Texan, New Yorker/New Jersey, old man, and pirate. :D

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few, though.
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I've always wanted to be able to do the "old man", but when I end up doing that one I just sound constipated.

(Woah, that doesn't sound good ^^)
 
Scottish, Irish, Australian (sort of), Geordie, Maggie from the Simpsons and there's something else I can do but I've forgotten.

Not a lot, I know...
 
I can do a brummie accent (It came with the package) and I can do a pretty good 'I'm the only gay in the village' Impression from Little Britain, Although it's wearing off now, I haven't done it in ages...

Oh yeah, I can do a pirate accent aswell... Says I
 
I'm curious, do Canadians really sound a bit English to Americans? :odd:

I think can do Russian, German, Italian, Scottish, English, Australian, New York, and Forest Gump accents. :D I can also speak computer monotone. "Does Not Compute." I also do Krusty the Clown's and Sideshow Bob's laugh from time to time.

Ooh! And Angry Norwegian pirate!
 
benzoboy
I can do a brummie accent (It came with the package) and I can do a pretty good 'I'm the only gay in the village'
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Yea, I forgot about the gay lisp, that's an easy one. Sounding gay is a peice of cake... of course most gay people don't sound like that.

I'm curious, do Canadians really sound a bit English to Americans?
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Not to me. Most canadians sound either very nothern or slightly french (depending on whether they're french canadian of course).

I can do an overly exaggerated typical hollywood style american accent
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What do Americans sound like? To me that sounds like the absense of accent, but then again, English probably sounds like the absense of accent to others.
 
Bee
Erm i can do english real good. :dopey:
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Me fail English? That's unpossible!

danoff
What do Americans sound like? To me that sounds like the absense of accent, but then again, English probably sounds like the absense of accent to others.
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Southern American is quite distinctive, although it really depends on whether you grew up exposed to other accents, or just the people in your small town. I hope the rest of the world doesn't think all of America sounds that way.

There is no one single American accent, just as there is no unified "The Queen's English". People from New England, and especially Eastern Massachusetts, sound different than people from mid-Atlantic states, and Southern, or namely Southeastern America. People who live near the gulf states have accents very different than those living just hours north of them, as there's a lot of French influence and Southern drawl in their English.

I havent met too many people from midwestern states, but there's always regional differences in the casual use of English from area to area. Also, cultural nuances make their way into English, as people looked at me funny when I called someone a putz when I lived in Gainesville; I might as well said bakayaro at him.

I'm way off topic. I guess I'm curious at how the rest of the world views my use of English, sans the stereotypes and crap.
 
I was watching "My Fair Lady" not long ago... I don't care for that movie, but that's beside the point. It has a lot to do with accents, as one guy tries to teach Audrey Hepburn "proper english".

She starts out with a cockney english accent.

"The rine in spine styes minely on the pline."

Eventually he teaches her to pronounce it differently. Similarly she drops her h's (as in 'ardly instead of hardly). He teaches her to pronounce it.

But what gets me about the movie is that the aristocratic english drops r's (as in hea instead of hear). So it's a funny double standard. Don't drop this letter, drop that other one.
 
Vicky Pollard, Boysie from Only fools and horses, Cletus that slack jawed yokel, along with the average Redneck voice. Usually something along the lines of "I told ya'all mary beth di' know how'd drive a combine'".

My best is probably boysie. There's more i think. I can do most regional accents too.
 
danoff
I was watching "My Fair Lady" not long ago... I don't care for that movie, but that's beside the point. It has a lot to do with accents, as one guy tries to teach Audrey Hepburn "proper english".

She starts out with a cockney english accent.

"The rine in spine styes minely on the pline."

Eventually he teaches her to pronounce it differently. Similarly she drops her h's (as in 'ardly instead of hardly). He teaches her to pronounce it.

But what gets me about the movie is that the aristocratic english drops r's (as in hea instead of hear). So it's a funny double standard. Don't drop this letter, drop that other one.
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In "proper" English, the word "house" rhymes with the word "nice".
 
I can do Japanese and Oregonian accents, but that's about it. :rolleyes: My coworker excels at impersonations and sometimes, we end up laughing very loudly at work. His best works are of Bill Paxton from the movie "Aliens", when he freaks out "it's game over, man!" and starts crying. He is also very good at Steven Segall. He squints his eyes to imitate Segall's look, when he does it. Very talented man. 👍
 
Grand Prix
I'm curious, do Canadians really sound a bit English to Americans? :odd:
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They actually do, depending on what part of the US you are in. But not because of the accent, but because of the words they use. Instead of saying "innit" (isn't it), they'll say "is it not"... and so on. They tend to spread the whole sentence using particularly British words, and an "eh" at the end. These are mostly Ontarioans )sp?) and mid-Canadians.

But just as in the US, there's no specific Canadian accent, since the country is even bigger than the US. French-Canadians of course, have a different accent, and I'm pretty sure they speak it diffrently in BC.

I can do the english english, scottish, irish, latino, eye-talian, new yorker, jewish and german accent (In english). In Spanish I can do a truckload of accents, but that isn't a big deal. Just make the (insert country here) accent and speak in spanish.
 
A little Auwstraaaaalian.
A little Meeeeexican.
A little Jamacian mon.
A little Auwstrian puny man.
A little brit-ish, what?
Oh, a little Japane(se), yes?

Can somewhat imitate David Strassman's 'Ted-E-Bear' ("noooooo Dave!!!"), Elmo ("Elmo no like you!") as well as make all these babyish/kid type voices.

Used to be able to do Grandpa Simpson and can still do Mayor Quimby i think. Sometimes manage Nelson's "Ha, ha!"
 
I can do Cartman very well, though my high school teachers frowned upon it...

I can do an Italian accent as well as a Mafia "don" accent which is funny sometimes.
 
Mustang-man
Elmo ("Elmo no like you!") as well as make all these babyish/kid type voices.

Used to be able to do Grandpa Simpson and can still do Mayor Quimby i think. Sometimes manage Nelson's "Ha, ha!"
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Same here. I can do dr marvin monroe, as he souds a lot like my ict teacher. Another good one is when homer immates lisa saying "Daddy, can you get some candy from the nice man?". If nobody remembers, it's when he withdraws all of his life savings, and needs a siganture from marge to confirm it. So, he goes behind a bush in the bank, and imitates marge saying "why yes, homey", and then gets down on his knees and imitatates lisa.

Classic!
 
I can do the following accents
English, Scottish, Irish, American, Italian, German, Swedish, French, New Zealand, Japanese, probably more. I did a whole film for drama in an english accent, that was helarious, not because of the accent, but because it was just so stupid.
 
Famine
In "proper" English, the word "house" rhymes with the word "nice".
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This is proof that you can blame us for mispronouncing your language, but you can't blame us for misspelling it in the first place.

I'm good at sounding like Marlon Brando in The Godfather. Nothing makes an impression quite like the responce: "So you come to me on the day of my daughter's wedding...?"

Aparently my astonishingly nasal voice can do Kermit the Frog quite well too.
 
Ok australian, british, scotish, german, japanese( anything eastern), umm jamaican and middle eastern. Its wierd though i alwasy wondered what a brit might sound liek doing my bostonian accent.
 
I can do:

  • Generic Asian accent
  • Bush's laugh (including moving shoulders)
  • Arnold's "Girlie Man"
  • Clinton's "I did not have sex..."
  • Kerry's "...and I'm reporting for duty"
 

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