I was looking up Sasha in an interview ...
Quite disappointing that her accent's not South African
Many actors/actresses these days that make it big in Hollywood tend to get their real accents evolving into an American one - which I think is a dissapointment
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shareI think she was just born there and not raised thus is the reason why she has no accent.
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thats the same as me. i also left SA when I was 3 or 4 years old, and didnt inherit the accent. its quite a shame really... would have enjoyed having one!
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haha made you look! =]
xx LLL
South African isn't a language. They speak like 9 languages there, and they speak mostly Afrikaans and Zulu in Johannesburg (if I'm not mistaken)... but also English... I'm guessing her family always spoke English, and probably American English... I don't think there is a certain accent, to be honest.
shareThey definitely do have an accent in South Africa.. Most whites, even if they don't speak afrikaans as their first language, but english, will often have kind of an afrikaans accent with the english and use some afrikaans words and they definitely don't speak american there, why would they?
shareThey speak English there. Mostly European though since South Africa was discovered by Europeans.
And on another note, there is no such language as "American." It is called English. No matter where you are, America or England, it's called English.
The "bantu" blacks discovered SA about 500 years before the Europeans. And indigenous South Africans called the bushmen were there 1000's of years before. The majority of white South Africans speak Afrikaans. This is slowly changing as most of them now need to speak English for work. In the past they could get away with just speaking Afrikaans. Now that they dont run the country anymore they have to adapt.
English is indeed English. Try understanding a Scotsman or someone from Newcastle, you'll soon appreciate the simplified American version of English. Good job.