(Sorry, this should be under the Anything else thread. Nils you can move this, but don't delete)
Do people who speak the English language realize that when they listen to themselves speak, they can detect their own accent?
Take an Aussie for example. He or she speaks the language of English, but do they hear and realize that when they speak to others, they expect to hear an Aussie accent from another Australian? I was wondering about this when I was downunder. And the same with the "Californian" Accent which is considered one of the more clearer dialects of English (by some research study where they played a tape of a conversation with people with different accents and asked the respondents to write down what the conversation was about).
How about the people in the UK, where they have British English, Scottish English, Irish English, Welsh English etc etc etc.
And you can hear the very distinct New Yorker accent (think of the cab drivers) or the Louisiana accent where it's really stretched out, or the red neck "saouth" accent.
When you speak and listen to yourself, what accent do you hear? Can you try to imitate another dialect?
For some reason, the North Americans can mimic a British accent very well, however the British for some reason cannot mimic a Western American accent, as far as I've heard.
Topic: The Accents of the English Langauge