Your opinion on Chinese accent.

So what's your view on Chinese? IMO it's horrible, I used to have a Chinese accent and still has a little, I just can't stand my voice.

I'm rather fond of it myself although I must say I find the "sher sher" accent that the Mandarin language has to be a little cuter than the lingering vowel sounds of Cantonese.

i think its cool

I never spoke Chinese as a kid (both my parents are from Hong Kong) but being around my Chinese relatives and watching old 80s Jackie Chan Hong Kong movies I find Canto funny. Angry-sounding, most of the time, but still funny.

My cantonese is absolutely horrendous. My mom, despite having a very limited command of english didn't teach me much cantonese and as such I can only understand it and can't speak it at all. If I try to speak it, it comes out with a horrible accent all totally mispronounced. That being said since I can understand cantonese, I don't really notice the "angry" accent that alot of other people say they hear when they listen to people speaking cantonese.

For mandarin on the other hand, for some reason I'm really not fond of it. Its probably because I've had a run in with some very obnoxious mandarin speakers but I can't say I'm a fan. It also may be because I can only understand a few phrases of mandarin as well.

Two words:

Peter Chao

I don't know whether you mean when they speak Chinese or English. For English, I've never really cared. I was just happy they were speaking English. But in Chinese? They sound like they're always complaining....and usually are, anyway. Though its even better in Shaanxi- it always sounds like they're yelling.LongZhiZi

When speaking English of course, just find it hard to take.

i dislike it makes things more difficult weezyfb

wut?

It's an... accent? :|

What am I supposed to say? :?

I'm rather fond of it myself although I must say I find the "sher sher" accent that the Mandarin language has to be a little cuter than the lingering vowel sounds of Cantonese.

Lord_Daemon

Rofl, for some reason I thought I was the only one who noticed this.. I definitely think mandarin sounds better than Cantonese >.> My girlfriend and her family speak cantonese all the time... not exactly the most charming experiences of my life.

Yep, sad but true.

It's annoying, but I only find it annoying because my neighbor has one.

She complains about everything..