I was born in Madrid, Spain. I know I have a very strong accent, it is something that I need to be very aware of when I am teaching. But the test says I have Midlands accent and calls it “no accent”. LOL!!!!
I was born in Madrid, Spain. I know I have a very strong accent, it is something that I need to be very aware of when I am teaching. But the test says I have Midlands accent and calls it “no accent”. LOL!!!!
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That’s because you likely have a very good ear for “correct” English pronunciation that you emulate (as best you can not being a native speaker).
I’m a central Pennsylvania native and the test pegged me correctly. My mother was from Mississippi and Dad from Pennsylvania. We kids grew up calling carbonated beverages “soda-pop”—I guess incorporating a “standard” from each parent.
If they added questions such as how you say (or at least said when you were a kid) the plural of ‘you’ (in the part of Pennsylvania where I was raised they said ‘youens’ as in “Where are youens going?”) they could have narrowed it down further.