What does an american accent sound like to a foreigner?

[outlawauron]

damkira said:

makingmusic476 said:

Khuutra said:
Louisiana is kind of emblematic of the problem: I can think of at least three major accents in that state alone, and it only has six million people.

I can think of at least five.  Typical New Orleans people like myself, that have often been said to have no recognizable accent at all, New Orleans ghetto, St. Bernard (Y'ats!), cajun/creole, then Northern Louisiana folks that sound like typical Southerners.

Its strange... New Orleans people don't.. but Slidell people sound very different from Chalmette people.. and Gretna is different, too. Baton Rouge people have no identifiable accent but they do in Lafayette or Houma...

Baton Rouge does not have a single accent. It's a large mixture of other cities (depending on where you are, you'll hear some Orleans Parish/Jefferson parish stuff and driving down the road you'll hear some Acadiana stuff) and doesn't quite a single accent of its own.

 

And I have to agree with Khuutra. While North Louisiana definitely does not have the same accent as South Louisiana, it's still different from the rest of the Southeast. A happy medium between the two seems like a reasonable statement.