Is it just me or do Romanians have noticeably less of an accent when they speak English compared to other Europeans?

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1. Most Romanians learned English watching American (USA) cartoons and movies, so we tend to have an American accent. But it also depends where you’re from and what you perceive as an accent.

   Once, I worked in a call center dealing with UK customers and they always asked me if I’m American or Irish. When I worked in bars in England, people used to ask me if I’m Scottish (?!?) or Irish. When I worked in a call center dealing with Americans, they used to ask me if I’m British, but some also pointed out that I have a Polish or Eastern European accent.

2. As a non-native English speaker I cannot really tell accents, except when it’s obvious and someone tries to pronounce English words like they are Spanish or French words.

   Also: The ducks are coming from the trucks

3. You clearly have not been on most of my business calls.

4. Depends for how long the people had been speaking English generally. For someone that already works within multinational companies, it’s somewhat easy to speak with little or no accent.

   Otherwise we get a slightly more pronounced “r” letter, so some people think we sound slightly Russian, but not Russian enough to be Russian.

5. I’ve been in the US for 20 years and people were saying that I have a russian accent 🙁

6. I noticed Romanians don’t necessarily have an Eastern European accent but tend to speak with the same flow as they do when speaking Romanian. So technically I must have heard tens of different accents when hearing Romanians speaking English, most of which were pretty far apart from each other.

7. It’s actually REALLY simple. Most east europeans are slavic language speakers, we are a bit of an enclave with your latin based language.

8. It’s just you. I think the Dutch have some of the cleanest English accents around continental Europe. And nordic people as well, Norwegians in particular.

9. Uhm, that’s pretty heavy still.
   Most Ro people who don’t live in English speaking countries think they have a good grasp of English, until they start speaking and sound like that.
   Here’s some flavor of real stinking Ro accent you’ll hear:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv9Dq4RKQ00

10. Romanians from the region of Moldavia have a very specific eastern european accent. We are usually mistaken for russians when we speak english.

11. English accent is bollocks mate, innit?

12. If you here my gf she sounds better than an American native, if you here me your bets will be on indian/french/Russian/Romanian.