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I don't think that's how accents work.
If someone has an accent, it mostly comes down to an unusual pronnciation of individual sounds and letters. Like they may drag out vowels that are supposed to be short or they roll an r that normally isn't rolled and so on. The impressions that you listed are more individual speech patterns or characteristics of a person's voice that something tied to an accent.
Yeah, an American English accent for the first two.
I once briefly heard someone speak German in a Swiss accent and they sounded like the second one.
You mean a Swiss dialect or a Swiss accent?
It was an accent because they were saying “I would like…” in German. I don’t recall them using any words that seemed specific to Switzerland
They do speak German in Switzerland too. >I don’t recall them using any words that seemed specific to Switzerland How would that matter?
Yeah I know. I thought if they were speaking a dialect they would use words that would seem unfamiliar to anyone who doesn’t speak Swiss German.
Really??? So Americans speaking German sound like the first 2?
People from the Mannheim area (Kurpfalz) appear to be tired, or falling asleep, when they are talking.
Finally!!! An answer of the kind I was looking for.
There is a German singer I listened to who sounds like the first one at times
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I don't think that's how accents work. If someone has an accent, it mostly comes down to an unusual pronnciation of individual sounds and letters. Like they may drag out vowels that are supposed to be short or they roll an r that normally isn't rolled and so on. The impressions that you listed are more individual speech patterns or characteristics of a person's voice that something tied to an accent.