I've developed a weird obsession with Canadians/Canada

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This has been going on for about four-five months now, and I have absolutely no clue how it started. Just one of those weird, bizarre and random A.S driven obsessions.

I've just become literally obsessed with Canadians and that damn Canadian accent.. I really can't get this out of my head. I'll be looking on youtube for hours watching Canadian accent tag videos just so I can hear the Canadian accent - for some reason it amuses me and warms my heart (don't ask why).

Has anyone had an obsession like this before? with a country/nationality ect.

which "Canadian accent," ??

People from coast to coast have very different accents... pretty much every major city across the country has a bit of a different accent, and then the really strong accents are in the maritime provinces on the East coast.

Here in Vancouver we have people from all over the world.. more than 1/3rd of people here are born outside of Canada, so IMO there isn't a west coast/Vancouver accent. Or maybe it's whatever mine is since I was actually born in Vancouver.

when I was in grade 5 I had to write a report about a country & chose Australia and was really into learning about anything Australian at the time. Over the years I've come to really like the South African accent as my favourite English accent, but haven't gone to the lengths of youtubing people talking lol. my perfect partner would have a SA accent, though.

Lol I'm talking about the standard stereotypical Canadian accent spoken mostly in Ontario. "Oat, aboat and sorey" ha. Think "Degrassi". It's called "Canadian raising" I mean... I find it just adorable..

I don't think that's weird at all. Lots of people are interested in other countries. Enjoy it. Manage your time so that you are not spending time on this that you ought to be spending on your responsibilities, but there's no sense in suppressing a special interest in Canada. That's a perfectly natural thing to be curious about. Quite a few people are enchanted with foreign countries--think of the people in the US who love Japan, or England, or France. Canada--sure, why not?

There are many different American accents, but the one you typically think of as American is the generic-midwest one they use in major news broadcasts. Perhaps Canada has that, too.

i am a little obsessed with Bhutan, but then I would happily go and live there.

next to the word 'idyllic' in the dictionary should be 'Bhutan' and then this picture

Well have a vacation in Canada might cure your obsession. I'm not saying you'll be disappointed. Just that maybe you need to realize your dreams. At least you don't need to learn a new language to further your learning. If you need some Canadian goods there are various sites selling things like maple candies, Tim Hortons coffee, Smarties...etc.

I'm rather interested in England, Scotland, India and Mexico. Only been to Mexico so far.

Just go oot and aboot!

As I am from the UK I can't hear the difference in the accent of the English speaking Canadian or English speaking American

true story

why? that country sux


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If you had people side by side you sure could.

I live just North of the USA border in the suburbs of Vancouver. I'm 61 city blocks from the border. I drive down across the line to buy gas & groceries much cheaper than at home, and literally just a stone's throw from the border, people instantaneously have an "American," accent that's very distinguishable as American vs. anything spoken around Metro Vancouver. True story.

Canada as a country, especially it's natural beauty, and our people.. is awesome. It's our government, especially our current federal government, that sux. I suppose that's true of many countries around the world these days.

I'm American, and to me American accents seem about as different from each other as they are from Canadian accents. Some of the North Midwestern US accents don't sound much different to me than the Ontario accent. I can understand the Ontario accent better than I can understand some of the Southern US accents. Differences in the accents and dialects of different regions interest me though. I've lived in New England my whole life, and from what I've observed, it appears to me that some of the local dialects here have some minor commonalities with British dialects that other American dialects don't have. It might just be me though. It's just based on my own observations.

I'm Canadian, and I like my country pretty well. Though I can't hear the accent - it just sounds like 'how normal people talk' to me!

In the Prairies, where I live, we have Canadian Raising too, but not as pronounced as in Ontario.

It also gets really cold here. I keep scoffing at nature documentaries talking about how some region (eg Scandanavia) is so cold it can get to -30 Celsius. Around here, that's one of the better days in January and February. (When it gets below -40, that's when we start thinking it's cold.)

In rural New Brunswick, where there's more likely to exist generations of people who haven't left, the accent is almost stereo-typical American. I guess I have some of that now, more now that I live with someone with that accent.

The most unique accents, are, of course, Newfies (Newfoundland) and those people who live in the far north, Nunavut and the Yukon.
'Up-talking' is apparently standard there.

I remember this blew my mind. I was a kid, reading a poem and they'd rhymed 'milk' with 'silk', and I laughed at how that didn't rhyme at all. I later told my mom, (who was raised in Northern Ontario) and she's like 'Yeah, they rhyme, it's you who's got it backwards.' It's melk to me.

I can't really tell Canadian accent either. But then I'm an immigrant so I'm not very good at telling accents. My American friends say I have some Canadian accent, some Chinese accent and (somehow) some British accent, but overall I speak very clearly.

Can you guys understand this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDaTTVR2JXYJamie Carragher talking

This is typical of a strong Liverpudlian, more commonly called 'scouse', accent

Was trying to think of which UK accents would be hardest for english speaking foreigners to try and understand.

Reckon Scouse would be hardest, though Geordie (Newcastle), Belfast and Cornish would be fairly messy.