The Somali English voice/undertone

[Sigmundd]

You would think I'm a literal White girl from the suburbs with my accent.

 

[Riftvalley]

I think its like a slight lisp kind of thing but for my voice it is not very noticeable i just sound like trapper schoolkid, also it seems like it's more noticeable for american somalis than for british for some reason
Weird because when i speak somali i can still use somali accent but it dissapears when i speak english. Or maybe im just tone deaf

Linguists were able to tell jihadi John was born to non British parents just by listening to his audio. Unless you have been raised with a white family or been completely surrounded by whites, it is hard not to have some MLE (multicultural London English) or influence from your native tongue in your pronunciation:

Video of a Farax with scouse accent I came across. His story telling style is Somali thoughSomalis have good memory

 

[balanbalis]

Wait that makes a lot of sense I was guessing you were from south but I didn’t want to bait you, I’m from west and my accent is slightly different maybe

Same, majority of Somalis are from West

 

[balanbalis]

Linguists were able to tell jihadi John was born to non British parents just by listening to UK. Unless you have been raised with a white family or been completely surrounded by whites, it is hard to have some MLE (multicultural London and English) or influence from your native tongue in your pronunciation:

Video of a Farax with scouse accent I came across. His story telling style is Somali thoughSomalis have good memory

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[nothingfrosty]

Same, majority of Somalis are from West

Ohh I didn’t know that. I know there’s a lot but I thought more would be in east

 

[Riftvalley]

If you ignore the caribbean/west african influence, she has the Somali voice too. Such an interesting phenomenon

Yes, she must be from south or something. Must have a grown around a lot of madows.?more and more girls sounds around like her these days.

I like xalimos who have this accent:


Ya Salam.

what I can’t stand is females who don’t know how to code switch and sound like dudes all the time saying bro and fam.

 

[Espaa_]

Wait that makes a lot of sense I was guessing you were from south but I didn’t want to bait you, I’m from west and my accent is slightly different maybe

At least you dont have the east london asian accent Wtf do west londoners even sound like?

 

[balanbalis]

Yes, she must be from south or something. Must have a grown around a lot of madows.?more and more girls sounds around like her these days.

I like xalimos who have this accent:


Ya Salam.

what I can’t stand is females who don’t know how to code switch and sound like dudes all the time saying bro and fam.

She's gorgeous allahuma barik

 

[cunug3aad]

At least you dont have the east london asian accent Wtf do west londoners even sound like?

 

[nothingfrosty]

At least you dont have the east london asian accent

I’m guessing bengali/pakistani would show up in their voice.

 

[balanbalis]

At least you dont have the east london asian accent Wtf do west londoners even sound like?

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West londoners are stereotyped to sound 'posh' but thats just depends on the area you're from
It's like a mixture between 'RP/standard' english and 'MLE' english, which varies on the scale depending on the person

 

[nothingfrosty]

Yes, she must be from south or something. Must have a grown around a lot of madows.?more and more girls sounds around like her these days.

I like xalimos who have this accent:


Ya Salam.

what I can’t stand is females who don’t know how to code switch and sound like dudes all the time saying bro and fam.

Sounds like west London accent

 

[Riftvalley]

Sounds like west London accent

She is still kind of talking fast I feel, more so than a white English speaker. Still has a slight Somalish lisp and Ts seem harder than cadaans. Nonetheless, nice formal and neutral accent. One would rather go to home than “fam, work was long ahlie

 

[nothingfrosty]

She is still kind of talking fast I feel, more so than a white English speaker. Still has a slight Somalish lisp and Ts seem harder than cadaans. Nonetheless, nice formal and neutral accent. One would rather go to home than “fam, work was long ahlie

Yeah it’s less multi-cultural there’s some west Londoners who speak that way. It just depends on who you hang around. If your around Irish travellers in london you’ll speak like them too,

 

[Devilsadvocate]

I can tell british accents apart by ethnicity, Bengali, Somali, Pakistani and african. It’s too easy. Before I even saw the tags, I knew this woman was Bengali. Some Somali guys need to learn how to code switch though they maintain that roadman accent everywhere.

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[Riftvalley]

Yeah it’s less multi-cultural there’s some west Londoners who speak that way. It just depends on who you hang around. If your around Irish travellers in london you’ll speak like them too,

I think lots of reading and watching the news, going to uni debates and working in a professional setting can make you sound more neutral (closer to middle class)..at least in professional settings. I was in a meeting the other day and a young madow guy was explaining something and he said “reh te te”. Mind you, there was hundreds of people online for this

 

[Devilsadvocate]

At least you dont have the east london asian accent Wtf do west londoners even sound like?

Tbh the “these biscuits are so nice” east London accent is definitely the WORST.

 

[Guure⁸]

I did this and got Spanish 5%

U should name ur self Bonito

 

[sums20]

Yeah it's the tone I think maybe it has something to do with speaking somali at home because I don't have it as far as I can tell and we only spoke English at home.

 

[Espaa_]

Tbh the “these biscuits are so nice” east London accent is definitely the WORST.

These biscuits are baree nice ykk