English as you speak it

[Diable Rouge]

This little quiz will pick up on your dialectical idiosyncracies within minutes.

[EIM]

English as you speak it

What you on about, mate? I aint got none.

[ursus arctos]

English as you speak it

Actually, it's quite rubbish if you are familiar with both American and UK usage.

[G-Man]

English as you speak it

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. Singaporean
3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Dutch

US Black Vernacular? Where dat be comin' from, honey chile?

And Singaporean?

[Various Artist]

English as you speak it

Mine was pretty spot-on
1. English (Standard) or however it described it
2. Australian
3. Welsh
I speak essentially 'proper' BBC English but have lived about 3/4 of my life in Wales, plus a couple of years in New Zealand and the rest in England.

The native languages guesses were a little on the perplexing side as it apparently revealed a hitherto unknown central European streak to my dialect:
1. English
2. Hungarian
3. Romanian
I can only suppose the latter two are trailing really rather a long way behind the first.

[Guy Profumo]

English as you speak it

English (England)
Scotland
Wales

[Guy Profumo]

English as you speak it

Though I wouldn't describe my dialect as "standard" for either of the postcodes I've lived more than 10 years of my life in.

Closer to the one where I lived seven years.

[Guest]

English as you speak it

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. Scottish (UK)
2. Irish (Republic of)
3. North Irish (UK)

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. German

I'm from Fermanagh. Perhaps it's the Lough Erne fjords which gives me my Norwegian.

I found some of the quiz a bit confusing. First, because of what would be 'grammatical' in written or spoken English, which differs. And secondly, because sometimes there's the question of whether you 'accept' varieties that you are aware of, but wouldn't use yourself.

[Various Artist]

English as you speak it

I just tried to stick with what I'd find it acceptable to hear coming out of my own mouth, if that helps. Many other options were recognisably 'normal' for other dialects — US ones, Kiwi, etc. — but I discounted anything if it wasn't something I'd use in my native one.

Edit: Not trying to come off like some RP-speaking dialect Nazi there, by the way; I just mean this was how I interpreted the brief. I know for a fact that if I were still living in NZ I'd have had to choose "She'll be right" as a perfectly legitimate everyday phrase, on the other hand.

[WOM]

English as you speak it

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:

1. Canadian
2. American (Standard)
3. Irish (Republic of)

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:

1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Swedish

Well, they nailed that. I'm Canadian, highly influenced by US media, and my grandparents are from Ireland (Northern).

[Guy Profumo]

English as you speak it

Lodzubelieveit wrote: Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. Scottish (UK)
2. Irish (Republic of)
3. North Irish (UK)

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Norwegian
3. German

I'm from Fermanagh. Perhaps it's the Lough Erne fjords which gives me my Norwegian.

I found some of the quiz a bit confusing. First, because of what would be 'grammatical' in written or spoken English, which differs. And secondly, because sometimes there's the question of whether you 'accept' varieties that you are aware of, but wouldn't use yourself.

This too. And there was stuff I didn't accept, but would of (!) had it been punctuated differently.

[Third rate Leszno]

English as you speak it

Heh, Scottish for me too. I guess Cumbrian does have a few similarities. Hints of Finnish too, must be all the rallying and ski jumping I watch.

[Incandenza]

English as you speak it

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:?

1. American (Standard)
2. Australian
3. English (England)

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:?

1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Swedish

[linus]

English as you speak it

It's a poorly-designed quizz, based on my results:
The first set is not that bad,

1. American (Standard)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Canadian

But:
Our top three guesses for your native language:
1. Norwegian
2. English
3. Dutch

[Southport Zeb]

English as you speak it

For English dialect:
1 English (England)
2 Irish (Republic of)
3 Scottish

Third guess for native language is a bit left field:
1 English
2 German
3 Hungarian

[3 Colours Red]

English as you speak it

Dialect, pretty good:
1. English
2. Welsh
3. Scottish

English, excusable due to living in a border town with a noticeable overspill reflected in the accent and turns of phrase.

Welsh is fairly obvious.

Scottish may be due to having a disproportionate number of teachers from Scotland (I had five in primary school, three were from north of the border).

Native language:
1. English
2. Finnish
3. Hungarian

No idea about the Finno-Ugric vibes apart from watching a lot of F1 post-race interviews and fond memories of Sami Hyypia.

[Fussbudget]

English as you speak it

Hmmm...

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. English (England)
2. Scottish (UK)
3. Welsh (UK)

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Hungarian
3. Swedish

I expect my British citizenship certificate is in the post as I type.

[Muukalainen]

English as you speak it

Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. English (England)
2. Scottish (UK)
3. Welsh (UK)

Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. English
2. Hungarian
3. Finnish

Pretty accurate in my case, though it failed to nail me as a yokel. Interesting that my second language appears amongst the guesses for my first language.

[via vicaria]

English as you speak it

Dialect: hmmm.

1. Scottish (UK)
2. Welsh (UK)
3. English (England)

I have a pretty standard English dialect, I would think, but with perhaps the odd inflection from Irish parents and family.

Native:

1. English
2. Norwegian
3. Chinese

Chinese! How odd. Kinda weird quiz.

[Come along, Min]

English as you speak it

Three Times A Reddy wrote: Dialect, pretty good:
1. English
2. Welsh
3. Scottish

English, excusable due to living in a border town with a noticeable overspill reflected in the accent and turns of phrase.

Welsh is fairly obvious.

Scottish may be due to having a disproportionate number of teachers from Scotland (I had five in primary school, three were from north of the border).

Native language:
1. English
2. Finnish
3. Hungarian

No idea about the Finno-Ugric vibes apart from watching a lot of F1 post-race interviews and fond memories of Sami Hyypia.

Same as me apart from Natives were English, Hungarian, Spanish.

For me, the guesses are very accurate. The native's perhaps reveal something more interesting.

[Medium Wave]

English as you speak it

I'm not a linguist but I am surprised at the frequency that Hungarian is coming up as a suggested native language (assuming most people posting here are native English speakers). I'm not surprised to see the Nordic languages in there (I've lived in Scandinavia myself and they have a similar structure to English) but I'd have thought Hungarian, as a non-Indo-European language, would be a bit of a remove away. And yet it's coming in in the top three of half the surveys here -- including my own.

[Amor de Cosmos]

English as you speak it

English (Welsh)
English (English)
English (Scottish)

So much for 43 years in Canada

[ad hoc]

English as you speak it

English England
English Wales
English Scotland

English
Swedish
Norwegian

[ad hoc]

English as you speak it

Half the board gets Hungarian, but not me despite being surrounded by Hungarian speakers

[DCI Harry Batt]

English as you speak it

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