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Originally Posted by Sara
Lol  I would take it as a compliment if someone was mistaking my accent for Swedish or South African! The South African accent is lovely and I always find that the Swedish have the best English accent of all the non-native English speakers.
But yeah it's weird. When I was in Australia about 5 year back (  time surely flies!) first people thought I had a German or a Dutch accent. That was gradually changing to various Scandinavian accents, until after half a year they thought I was from New Zealand (and in New Zealand they figured I was from Australia). Which is about the best compliment I had on my accent  . |
To be honest, Sara, when I met you in 2004, I could tell that you were Dutch, but only because I did speak more than just a few words to you. It was only a slight accent though.
To Jana- You definitely didn't sound THAT German when you spoke English, maybe just a little also. Haha, next time we catch up I can speak some German to you and you can make fun of my accent as much as you like! Oh, and if someone said you have a South African accent, it means that your accent is somewhat muddled, which is perfectly understandable, given the corners of the globe you've been to!!
