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I believe I can distinguish hearing spoken English accents
From very broad regional areas (e.g. North America, South America, Britain, Oceania)
14 (48.3%)
From broad regional areas (e.g. USA/Canada, Wales/Scotland/England/Ireland, Philippines/Japan/China/Malaysia, Australia/New Zealand)
17 (58.6%)
From specific regional areas (e.g. California/New York, Brummie/Cockney, Visayas/Luzon)
19 (65.5%)
From very specific neighbouring regional areas (e.g. NorCal/SoCal, Geordie/Mackem, apologies for lack of non-US/UK examples)
6 (20.7%)
Nope, can't
2 (6.9%)
I believe I can convincingly imitate accents from areas other than the one I was born in to a level of
From very broad regional areas
6 (20.7%)
From broad regional areas
11 (37.9%)
From specific regional areas
5 (17.2%)
From very specific neighbouring regional areas
3 (10.3%)
Nope, can't
17 (58.6%)
Here I provide more detail about how well I can distinguish and/or imitate regional spoken English accents.
( Context for this poll. Don't read if you don't want to hear criticism of Orphan Black. )
