How I talk ...

[Tender Branson]

locally (my dialect is called Pinzgauerisch) and aso English. The best I could find is this, which are local free-skiers and snowboarders who are holding events each year in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, which is one of the best and most popular ski resorts in Austria. Saalbach is about 10 miles away from here where I live. Just listen how they talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CASFXD2Br5s

[Dr. Cynic]

I probably lapse into traditional yinzer more than I'd like to. I NEVER say "Worsh" or "Warsh", however. That one always gets to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mobi0B0L37w&feature=related

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I probably lapse into traditional yinzer more than I'd like to.

[Mechaman]

.....like a f***ing pothead man.

"man, picture is starting to form in my mind y'know with like rectangulars and sh*t"

Seriously though, every time I hear my voice on a voice recorder or on video it's quite disturbing.  Shockingly I don't sound like an Okie at all, but I sound like I've been tripping major balls.  I mean MAJOR BALLS.

[Yelnoc]

.....like a f***ing pothead man.

"man, picture is starting to form in my mind y'know with like rectangulars and sh*t"

Seriously though, ever time I hear my voice on a voice recorder or on video it's quite disturbing.  Shockingly I don't sound like an Okie at all, but I sound like I've been tripping major balls.  I mean MAJOR BALLS.

You too?  I've got a fairly neutral accent, having spent my first few years in California and then moved throughout the US since.  But whenever I hear my voice played back on a recording I sound higher than Paul McCartney on Pot.

[TJ in Oregon]

I have a sort of dry, academia-type sounding voice and I speak in a weak Ohio accent (if there is one). I say things like "pop" for soft drinks, end sentences with prepositions, and pronounce bagel "bag-ul".

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I have a sort of backwoods Upper New England accent that behaves a lot like a Down-East accent most of the time but sometimes slips into these weird Maritime-Canada or even Quebec inflections. I've never heard it on anybody else who didn't grow up in the same part of Vermont that I did.

[Ban my account ffs!]

locally (my dialect is called Pinzgauerisch) and aso English. The best I could find is this, which are local free-skiers and snowboarders who are holding events each year in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, which is one of the best and most popular ski resorts in Austria. Saalbach is about 10 miles away from here where I live. Just listen how they talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CASFXD2Br5s

I can actually understand what he's saying!  yay!

[Ban my account ffs!]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_6sRULMzKY&feature=related

A good array of accents... mine is fairly close to the girl doing the video but also a bit like the dad who asks his kid if he likes Milwaukee.

[ZuWo]

locally (my dialect is called Pinzgauerisch) and aso English. The best I could find is this, which are local free-skiers and snowboarders who are holding events each year in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, which is one of the best and most popular ski resorts in Austria. Saalbach is about 10 miles away from here where I live. Just listen how they talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CASFXD2Br5s

Having listened to countless interviews of Austrian skiers and coming from a place where many distinct dialects are spoken, some of which even share similarities with certain Austrian dialects, it's not all too difficult to understand what these guys are saying. Austrian dialects are charming.

[Tender Branson]

locally (my dialect is called Pinzgauerisch) and aso English. The best I could find is this, which are local free-skiers and snowboarders who are holding events each year in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, which is one of the best and most popular ski resorts in Austria. Saalbach is about 10 miles away from here where I live. Just listen how they talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CASFXD2Br5s

Having listened to countless interviews of Austrian skiers and coming from a place where many distinct dialects are spoken, some of which even share similarities with certain Austrian dialects, it's not all too difficult to understand what these guys are saying. Austrian dialects are charming.

The Swiss dialect is still killing me a bit, but the more I watch Swiss TV on cable, the easier it gets ...

Aufwiederluaga.

[afleitch]

Like these folk;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/group/scotland-kelvinside.shtml

[Lief 🗽]

Sometimes I wonder why I even studied German, considering I can't really understand any dialects that aren't Hochdeutsch. Though I do enjoy my grandparents' very Dutch-sounding Rhineland dialect.

[Hash]

I speak with an accent in English, though I'm at a loss if it's a traditional French accent or some random weird hybrid accent. Lots of people know I'm not Anglophone, few people could guess I'm Francophone. Gotten lots of people think I'm German or something (or Arabic, but that's because they were dumb).

In French, I have a hybrid France-Quebec accent which is called 'French' in Quebec and 'Quebecois' in France. Probably more Quebecois though, given that when I speak colloquially I do so in Quebecois.

[ZuWo]

locally (my dialect is called Pinzgauerisch) and aso English. The best I could find is this, which are local free-skiers and snowboarders who are holding events each year in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, which is one of the best and most popular ski resorts in Austria. Saalbach is about 10 miles away from here where I live. Just listen how they talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CASFXD2Br5s

Having listened to countless interviews of Austrian skiers and coming from a place where many distinct dialects are spoken, some of which even share similarities with certain Austrian dialects, it's not all too difficult to understand what these guys are saying. Austrian dialects are charming.

The Swiss dialect is still killing me a bit, but the more I watch Swiss TV on cable, the easier it gets ...

Aufwiederluaga.

Why on earth would anyone who isn't Swiss want to watch Swiss TV?
And well, ufwiederluege, that's how I would say it in my dialect.

[Tender Branson]

locally (my dialect is called Pinzgauerisch) and aso English. The best I could find is this, which are local free-skiers and snowboarders who are holding events each year in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, which is one of the best and most popular ski resorts in Austria. Saalbach is about 10 miles away from here where I live. Just listen how they talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CASFXD2Br5s

Having listened to countless interviews of Austrian skiers and coming from a place where many distinct dialects are spoken, some of which even share similarities with certain Austrian dialects, it's not all too difficult to understand what these guys are saying. Austrian dialects are charming.

The Swiss dialect is still killing me a bit, but the more I watch Swiss TV on cable, the easier it gets ...

Aufwiederluaga.

Why on earth would anyone who isn't Swiss want to watch Swiss TV?
And well, ufwiederluege, that's how I would say it in my dialect.

I have actually 5 or so Swiss programmes on my cable.

SF1, SF2, Suisse HD and a few others I can't name right now. It's very interesting sometimes, especially when the Swiss football team plays and nobody else covers it.

[Miles]

I talk like Susan Collins. I'm actually a stutterer (like in the King's Speech). I find that if I talk like Susan Collins, I stutter less.