Everybody thinks I have a fake accent: Priyanka Chopra - Page 4

Originally posted by: adigaag

Well I was among those Indians who used to not like fake accent of people who have been in USA and UK. Now I take back all the accusations as this is not faking it. It's called adapting to your surrounding. Heck it has been 2 years and I take twice the time to get across my point to hardcore Americans. Words like Record, status, etc in UK and U.S.A are pronounced so effing differently. In America lot of stress is given on the letter 'r'. I have slowly started learning the accent and if others call it fake I care two hoots about it. To hell with all the blabbering which goes around you for faking accents because once you come back to India it takes some time to adapt which is the word. And so I'm with Priyanka, she is speaking the way it should be, as the target majority audience is not the one calling you that you are faking it.

@Bold: Lol I know. I was serving a customer last week, and he goes can I get waader. I was like I'm sorry what? He's like waader. After a few goes I realised he was saying water. 😆😆

Originally posted by: Zah.Of.RoZaNa.

@Bold: Lol I know. I was serving a customer last week, and he goes can I get waader. I was like I'm sorry what? He's like waader. After a few goes I realised he was saying water. 😆😆

Tell me about it. My overall productivity of deliverables was getting hampered because of this accent issue. I have to invest so much time in verbal conversations like seriously I have a personal life as well. I'm not made for office work only. I'm a human being . I care a damn about all the mocking that's goes on in the name of faking accent blah blah.

"I was going schizophrenic"


Bitch please. Don't go around throwing words like schizophrenic for your mild case of lost identity while you were studying different dialects/accents. It's a very serious illness. 🤢

Originally posted by: Antlers

There is no such thing as America accent.

Accents in the states varies due to regions:

Valley girls, Boston's, Texan's, Alabama's, even Cuban in South Florida to the Mexicans in South Padre Island...

Originally posted by: pallavi25

That is more of a dialect list...Americans from different states speak American English but with different intonations. Brooklyn accent, Boston accent, Texan drawl, Midwestern twang, Minnesota singsong tone, etc.

But immigrants have their own accents according to the country of their origin. You can tell from their accent which part of the world they are from...English is not their mother tongue, they learn the language when they come here.

Its more difficult for us Indians because we come here with a pre-existing knowledge of Indian English so its harder for us to adopt the American English accent...harder than say the Chinese immigrants who learn English over here for the first time.

As for Quantico, if PC is portrayed as a born and bred Indian American then its rather silly to show her having an Indian English accent.

But in some cases that is also possible, when American-born kids with Indian parents are influenced by their parents' accent at home and also as an effect of native Indian language being spoken at home.

because Priyanka keeps harping on about how her FBI role requires her to be a native American character, she'd have a safer and easier bet to not talk about her accent training at all and then just present what she's got.

It's almost a strange way of her gloating that she gets to play a native American lol, at least the way I read it

Fake accent means trying hard to speak like others. I know many Indians my age who migrated from India try that fake Kiwi accents... and i ask the Kiwi born cousins of mine what they think ofthose guys' accents and they say it sounds funny but they r trying. I ask what abt me, they say have clear soft accents... very easy to understand.. keep it up. 😆

Originally posted by: Chippeshwini

because Priyanka keeps harping on about how her FBI role requires her to be a native American character, she'd have a safer and easier bet to not talk about her accent training at all and then just present what she's got.

It's almost a strange way of her gloating that she gets to play a native American lol, at least the way I read it

I love the way Pee Cee speaks.

Duhhh... Because you do have fake accent! You speak good english doesn't mean you need to change accent! 🤢

The only ladies I can listen forever is Rekha, Sushmita and Lara!

There is a great amount of accountability, loyalty and ownership involved when a certain 'X' helps you fulfill your dreams seeing the talent in you. Stakes involved are quite high. Own it up with utmost dedication and sincerity as you know your performance will be evaluated based on how you showcase ( communication+ final output) yourself and that will be a deciding factor for future opportunities. Work on your development areas. Build up on your strengths. For me this is what defines work ethics and professionalism. If this is fake so be it. To each his own.