I just found this. :-)

[chileno]

http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/am...s/map/map.html

I am sorry if this is not the place to post this. :/

Hernan

[CrOtALiTo]

It's a exercise page, I suppose that it was a website as Tomisimo. I'm sorry.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Great challenge for an English learner... I couldn't have even one of them right!
*lol*

[chileno]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

Great challenge for an English learner... I couldn't have even one of them right!
*lol*

I haven't tried yet. I am afraid of myself...

Hernan

[bmarquis124]

oh wow lol. i'm from here and i only got 4 right.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by bmarquis124

oh wow lol. i'm from here and i only got 4 right.

I got none

It would have been a little helpful for all the phrases to be the same. I usually can distinguish drawls from TX, South South :-) and NY.

Hernan

[laepelba]

Most of you did better than I did - I only got two right. And I always try to listen to Americans' accents. Living in the DC area I hear lots and lots of them!

[josephstevens]

The only two I got right were from my region, lol

[Tomisimo]

Interesting. I only got a couple of them right. There are some problems with the quiz. The voice samples are pretty short and poor quality. Also, for example, one of the New English samples said to pay attention to the "a" in "cans", but that is exactly how I pronounce it, and I'm from the West Coast. The two samples from the "Midlands" slated as "general American" sound exactly as if they were from Oregon, Washington, or California. In short, the quiz would benefit from longer, higher quality samples.

But it's still an interesting exercise.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

I feel so much better now.

I can blame it on the samples now...

[lee ying]

I got two right but I don´t know what does they sas?

[poli]

I only got three right. The south was a giveaway, and one of the middle atlantic speakers was identifiable. The sentences were way to short. The regions were too large. None of the Midwestern or northerners sounded
like Chicagoans, and none of the New Englanders sounded like Boston or Maine.
I think the premise of the is fun, but this test was faulty.

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by poli

I only got three right. The south was a giveaway, and one of the middle atlantic speakers was identifiable. The sentences were way to short. The regions were too large. None of the Midwestern or northerners sounded
like Chicagoans, and none of the New Englanders sounded like Boston or Maine.
I think the premise of the is fun, but this test was faulty.

Thanks for the moral support

If any of you are interested in accents, you might like the speech accent archive. I have had it bookmarked for a long time, and it is a fun site to browse and listen to the accents of different people (native and non-native English speakers) read a text. Trying to mimic the accents is the funnest part.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

Thanks for the moral support

If any of you are interested in accents, you might like the speech accent archive. I have had it bookmarked for a long time, and it is a fun site to browse and listen to the accents of different people (native and non-native English speakers) read a text. Trying to mimic the accents is the funnest part.

Ah thanks!

It is always fun to try imitate accents.

Can you imagine, my accent and then, I, trying another accent?!

[poli]

Yes, by all means try to imitate accents. I can only imagine what a Chilean/Southern accent sounds like. I do it in Spanish (for fun--Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Spain, but I can't get beyond sí claro in Mexican). I can't sustain the three accents I attempt to imitate, because my Spanish isn't good enough.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by poli

Yes, by all means try to imitate accents. I can only imagine what a Chilean/Southern accent sounds like. I do it in Spanish (for fun--Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Spain, but I can't get beyond sí claro in Mexican). I can't sustain the three accents I attempt to imitate, because my Spanish isn't good enough.

Just record your voice and check. :-)

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by poli

Yes, by all means try to imitate accents. I can only imagine what a Chilean/Southern accent sounds like. I do it in Spanish (for fun--Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Spain, but I can't get beyond sí claro in Mexican). I can't sustain the three accents I attempt to imitate, because my Spanish isn't good enough.

The good thing about practicing accents, is it helps you to pass yourself off (intentionally or unintentionally) as a native Spanish speaker. One of the greatest compliments I have received concerning Spanish was when an Argentine thought I was Mexican. But the thing is, when I'm speaking with a Mexican, I can only hold up for so long, and then some tiny detail slips and they can tell I'm not a native speaker.

If they think you're from another Spanish-speaking country, you can get away with lots of things--- botched metaphors, idioms, vocabulary, intonation etc, because you have plausible denial. They have no way of knowing if that is a legit way of saying it "where you are from".

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

The good thing about practicing accents, is it helps you to pass yourself off (intentionally or unintentionally) as a native Spanish speaker. One of the greatest compliments I have received concerning Spanish was when an Argentine thought I was Mexican. But the thing is, when I'm speaking with a Mexican, I can only hold up for so long, and then some tiny detail slips and they can tell I'm not a native speaker.

If they think you're from another Spanish-speaking country, you can get away with lots of things--- botched metaphors, idioms, vocabulary, intonation etc, because you have plausible denial. They have no way of knowing if that is a legit way of saying it "where you are from".

Too true and too fun!

[J16]

I got six correct!!!!

[chileno]

Originally Posted by J16

I got six correct!!!!

That's excellent!