Sentence examples for native accent from inspiring English sources

Our President, a proclaimed sorry sinner, speaks the language of the Bible Belt with a native accent.

The doctors said no. Parker also phoned a dialect expert at Trinity University, in San Antonio, who told him that, even if someone had been held in captivity for three years, he would quickly regain his native accent.

Cast out, the pampered brahmin becomes a street urchin in Agra, and is rejected by his "own kind", the "half-and-half" Anglo-Indians, for whom his native accent is too thick.

For those West Midlanders who pride ourselves on our intelligence and speed of humour, the simple application of our native accent gives us an immediate advantage over other people of similar intelligence, because when we say something smart, people look at us in admiring amazement, as if witnessing a chimp that can paint attractive water colours.

"He would say to his friends, 'Well, she can't help it; that's the way people talk in England.' " Years later, Mr. Cloud spent a six-month internship in England's House of Parliament and became so adept at his parents' native accent that when they got calls from a mysterious Englishman offering them a great deal on Westminster Abbey, it took them a moment to realize it was Geoffrey.

Learning from multiple people is another key to success, especially when attempting to cultivate a native accent.

I only cast actors who could speak English with their native accents.

She is dark-skinned, wears a nose stud and speaks both Norwegian and English in seemingly native accents.

• To the Editor: How sad that people are now trying to lose their native accents, and that such conformity is not only rewarded but even encouraged.

Native accents tended to be more apparent, however, when artists were either being absurd, or trying to reference their past, and therefore their roots, directly.

An attractive modern work among these antiquities, David Loeb's "Cries of Kyoto," was meant to bring the gamba's history up to date, but mostly spoke in the instrument's native accents.