I'm currently working on my first proper podfic which means I've been listening to my own voice for the last two hours and oh my god why did nobody tell me how horrible my th sounds? I always thought I was way better than the cliché German but apparently I'm definitely not that good. It's like I was saying f instead of th. The main character's name also totally sounds like "fucks" every time I say it. I really hope there's someone out there enjoying to hear about Fucks, Fire and Forn with the great quality of my smartphone's microphone. (Sorry @catboydogma I really tried)
This video is over a decade old and I can't testify to the quality of her non-English speaking accents, but the differentiation of the UK ones, American ones, and the Australian vs. New Zealand ones is great. The little riff she does about the trans-Atlantic accent always gets me:
"Oh hello, my name is Amy Walker and I'm an actress and a writer and a singer and a dancer and I was asked here today to give you an example of the trans-Atlantic accent I was trained in in 1945."
[And a few miles up the road... [ Singing, German accent ] Roll out the spaetzel. ...some cold-weather comfort... Listen, you say "pork belly," I say "thank you." ...slope side.]
also annas fake German accent was so try-hard and over the top, we get it sis you're europEAN or w/e. No one talked like that, it was like a bad cartoon. the fact she thought anyone would believe she was literally a german princess? give me a break,
these were supposed to be " professionals." it was all so ingenuine too, like we see right through you hun. just added to how inauthentic and shallow her whole persona seemed. imagine dedicating that much effort into keeping up a fake image like that, must've been exhausting being that 24/7.
wtf i keep stumbling upon interviews w the dark cast that are in english for whatever reason the guy who plays jonas speaks english so well you cant even tell hes german except for like a few words where he has a bit of an accent
And a few miles up the road... [ Singing, German accent ] Roll out the spaetzel. ...some cold-weather comfort... Listen, you say pork belly, I say thank you. ...slope side. I get my glass, so I walk it into a room, and out I go, and I run through the hallway where I go. ...and walk in this, here, they can find this, a large, old, gray, flat glass box over the fireplace.... Oh, how many times does this get told, is it this big, like an old toilet seat, with four pillows inside it? Yeah... This is the toilet.
Chinese Grand Prix 2016 cool-down room. everyone remembers the iconic seb blowing up at kyvat but before that he actually congratulates nico in german, needs to get his attention like 4 times. (there's also a longstanding belief that nico spoke in german in cooldown rooms only to mind game lewis, but it's actually seb who would start speaking to nico in german first)
rough translation because nico's voice is muffled and seb swallows half his words:
seb: (FOUR TIMES) nico, you won't be able to sleep tonight huh? - you won't be able to sleep tonight, 'cause you're so well rested - I said, you won't be able to sleep tonight, you're so well rested, it was so quiet up front/you were so untroubled up front...
nico: something was possible today lol
and then seb turns to kyvat to yell at him in English 😭😭 (and here's Nico's reaction)
[ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS. THIS IS, UH, CALLED SAUERBRATEN. AND AND MY HAPPINESS COMES FROM THE KINDNESS OF THOSE AROUND ME. (German accent) AND THE WINE. YES. (normal voice) LET'S JUST JUMP RIGHT INTO IT. ALL RIGHT.]
(Rundown: Markus here is a far right politician, moaning about drugs = bad. Context box saying he'd been to the Oktoberfest multiple times, and that the drug alcohol is the most common drug in Germany, 5% of all deaths are caused by it)