Thread: Do Russians like American accents in spoken Russian?

Originally Posted by it-ogo

American speaking Russian is quite rare phenomenon. American speaking grammatically correct Russian is very-very rare phenomenon. So I can say more or less what is heavy American accent in Russian but have no idea what is light American accent.

Can you really tell that the accent is "American" as opposed to just "foreign"?

Originally Posted by Ann

Can you really tell that the accent is "American" as opposed to just "foreign"?

Well, I definitely can distinguish it from, let us say, Chinese accent. (Unless, maybe, both of them are used simultaneously. ) Or some others.

Originally Posted by Ann

Can you really tell that the accent is "American" as opposed to just "foreign"?

Maybe not specifically American, but I'd say it's pretty easy to recognize an accent as English. The language has a rather atypical collection of sounds. For example, could you find that many examples of languages that have the same R,T,D, "er" sounds? Any, among popular languages, please . And that pounding rhythm typical of English speech, but foreign for Russian or, say, Japanese.