Slow language learning vs language hacking

[reineke]

"Youse" is also American.

How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013 ... .html?_r=0

[MorkTheFiddle]

"Youse" is also American.

How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013 ... .html?_r=0

Turns out I'm either from Modesto, California, or Jackson, Mississippi.

[Xenops]

"Youse" is also American.

How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013 ... .html?_r=0

I got Spokane, Grand Rapids and Fort Wayne.

[reineke]

Someone somewhere is in dire need of language learning advice. I got Honolulu, Long Beach, and New York. Mahalo.

[qeadz]

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013 ... .html?_r=0

I grew up in South Africa, but have mixed accent with other places I have stayed. However this set of questions seemed to pick on a number of words for which I still retain a South African pronunciation.

The quiz suggests that New York, Yonkers, Jersey City are where I might find people most similar to my accent.

[Adrianslont]

"Youse" is also American.

How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013 ... .html?_r=0

It's Irish too I believe.

I got New York, Los Angeles and Pembroke Pines! I now know where to go to be understood if I ever visit the US.

[jeff_lindqvist]

Boston/Providence/New York. Last time I answered a quiz similar to this one was maybe ten years ago, and then it was Philadelphia.

[blaurebell]

New York, Rochester and San Francisco. Funny, all three are on my list of places to visit if I ever make it to the US. Maybe a sign? That said, my accent is weird, I got a really awkward mix of UK and US English. More UK pronunciation than US, because I lived in the UK a long time, but I tend to use some US words. It's also the only language where I haven't picked an accent and worked heavily on it, so it's just a mess in general. My old flatmate from up north mocked me for pronouncing "bath" with a long A, "Fancy like the Queen", while my husband mocks me for having American twang in my "water". At one point I felt like working on a 1950s cinema accent, but that's just a tad too eccentric perhaps

[tastyonions]

My favorite non-native accent I have heard in English was that of a Japanese woman who somehow managed to sound like a mix of Australian, American, and Japanese all at once.

[Jar-Ptitsa]

Boston/Providence/New York. Last time I answered a quiz similar to this one was maybe ten years ago, and then it was Philadelphia.

Mine was nearly the same:



I didn't know the answers so often I replied "other"