Can you recognise the nationality of foreign Polish speakers by their accent?

Lyzko	Jun 28, 10, 22:13 #31
Poles speaking English (broadly exaggerated): Hallaoo. Maj najm eess Marek ahnt Aj ahm frahmm Poalahnd. I stahdeyink een Varsaw... Yanks attempting Polish (tit for tat, just to show I can give as good as I get): Yakseee madg!Gin (pronounced like the drink) dawBREE.... Think I'll quit while I'm ahead:-))) LOL

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Edited by: zetigrek Jun 28, 10, 23:23 #32

Ziemowit:

the English-speaking Brits tended to have some "unspecified" accent while speaking Polish

dont agree with that statment. Stevie and the fireman (sorry I forgot his name) they both have very specific problems with Polish pronouncation which are typical to English ppl.

I knew some Americans who speaks polish without any foreign accents and if only they didnt do any mistakes they would be easly considered polish (actually one was frequently mistaken for polish person and we even couldnt believe he has no polish roots)

NorthMancPolakThreads: 6 Posts: 708 Joined: Jun 13, 10 ♂	Jun 28, 10, 23:26 #33
I've spoken Polish all my life, but I can't do a Polish accent (when speaking English) however much I try!

zetigrekThreads: 59 Posts: 2,709 Joined: May 20, 10 ♂	Jun 28, 10, 23:28 #34
NorthMancPolak: I've spoken Polish all my life, but I can't do a Polish accent (when speaking English) however much I try! No way! I dont believe you. Do you really cant say: Aj łant tu hajer jor karr? ;D

NorthMancPolakThreads: 6 Posts: 708 Joined: Jun 13, 10 ♂	Jun 28, 10, 23:31 #35
zetigrek: No way! I dont believe you. Do you really cant say: Aj łant tu hajer jor karr? ;D I've tried, I always end up sounding like a Paki lol

MatowyThreads: 1 Posts: 519 Joined: Jul 4, 09 ♂	Jun 29, 10, 01:13 #36
zetigrek: Stevie and the fireman (sorry I forgot his name) they both have very specific problems with Polish pronouncation which are typical to English ppl. Which problems are those?

zetigrekThreads: 59 Posts: 2,709 Joined: May 20, 10 ♂	Edited by: zetigrek Jun 29, 10, 08:28 #37
Matowy: Which problems are those? misprounance of "sz" for instance

beckskiThreads: 19 Posts: 2,148 Joined: May 15, 07 MEMBER ♀	Jun 30, 10, 02:05 #38
stevepl: Can you recognise the nationality of foreign Polish speakers by their accent? I can usually recognize a Polish speaker when they say, Good Morning (Goot Morrrning.) A sincere thanks PF, for putting up with me FIVE terrific years, muah!

IronsideThreads: 59 Posts: 6,786 Joined: Feb 26, 09 ♂	Jun 30, 10, 02:35 #39
I can do it with my ears rolled up but whatever for ? by the way wildrover cut your hair !

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Jun 30, 10, 05:07 #40

beckski:

I can usually recognize a Polish speaker when they say, Good Morning (Goot Morrrning.)

Lol.
They cannot say the "i" in "is". No matter how much you try to teach them, they wil always say "ees", also the endings "ing" are always said "eenk", for example "speakink". And the list goes on and on. You can tell who is Polish who is German or who is Hindu by the way they try to speak English. It's funny. Lol

MatowyThreads: 1 Posts: 519 Joined: Jul 4, 09 ♂	Jun 30, 10, 05:39 #41
^ Technically they're not incorrect, since English is one of the loosest phonetic languages around. However, most Poles have serious problems with simple English vowel sounds. For some reason they never learn the difference from Polish vowels.

zetigrekThreads: 59 Posts: 2,709 Joined: May 20, 10 ♂	Jun 30, 10, 08:23 #42
tygrys: They cannot say the "i" in "is". No matter how much you try to teach them, they wil always say "ees", also the endings "ing" are always said "eenk", for example "speakink Well I pronounce "is" as "ys"... that's how I hear it. "Ing" as "yn" rarely pronounce "k" at the end

beckskiThreads: 19 Posts: 2,148 Joined: May 15, 07 MEMBER ♀	Jun 30, 10, 08:30 #43
tygrys: also the endings "ing" are always said "eenk", for example "speakink" Lol, sounds similar to Zsa Zsa Gabor's accent. Instead of saying darling, she says darlink. A sincere thanks PF, for putting up with me FIVE terrific years, muah!

zetigrekThreads: 59 Posts: 2,709 Joined: May 20, 10 ♂	Edited by: zetigrek Jun 30, 10, 10:14 #44
zetigrek: misprounance of "sz" for instance They also pronounce "ę" at the end of words like "a". Dziękujaa ;D

mafketisThreads: 17 Posts: 1,880 Joined: Mar 31, 08 ♂	Jun 30, 10, 12:21 #45
zetigrek: They also pronounce "ę" at the end of words like "a". Dziękujaa ;D Don't Silesians do something like that too?

Lyzko

Jun 30, 10, 21:12 #46

The old "ostpreussisch" accent of elderly surviving ethnic German speakers from around fomer Koenigsberg etc.. have markedly trilled 'r'-sounds when speaking German. Often times, their family names too are pure Polish, Krawitz, Kaminsky, Wapniewski etc... and frequently sound like Poles, not Germans, when they speak.

Still others such as the now-demonized Guenter Grass from former Danzig (now Gdańsk), sound one-hundred percent German when speaking their mother tongue!

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