TICAL!!!!! Where Meth and Redman at?

I think when she speaks English, she’s now thinking in Korean. That happens a lot when you stay in a foreign country for a long time. So even if English was her first language, the sentences come out interesting. Han Ye Seul is doing that too. Her pronunciation is fluent (yes, there’s the heavy accent), but the way she puts sentences together is sometimes off from what would be colloquial English in America. (which is suggesting she’s still kinda thinking in Korean even when she’s talking to Americans.) That’s more pronounced than it was a few years ago.

Anybody here have an opinion on Crown J’s accent? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xBmGPCeeiU

First time I heard a “hard” SoCal Korean accent (when I was a kid), it sounded like Chinese-meets-Mexican-meets-Valley accent to me. By the end of high school, I was talking the same way. Sometimes I don’t hear it anymore because where I currently live is surrounded by it still.

I have a Chinese-American accent too. If you look for it, you can hear it.

“I kind of wonder how Daniel Henney got hired in Korea. Aren’t Koreans insulted that he doesn’t try to learn the language?”

Actually a rather big deal that a mixed-race guy was even accepted at all, let alone loved, in a K-drama (as opposed to Japan, which fetishizes that.) Very rare. FWIW, he can converse in Korean now.

“cuts vowels a little shorter than would be standard for American English. ”

That’s part of the give-away. The point of resonance is lower than typical American or English. The vowels are flattened a little.

“She has unnatural use (or lack) of articles, the atypical word choice affectations like “those stuff” and “the fashionable out[er]wears” (note the extraneous ’s’–i half expected her to say “those stuffs” as well).”

Nicole of Kara is really interesting. Her English pronunciation is fluent, but the words come across as if she’s thinking in Korean as she’s talking.

“I don’t really know much about Twilight, but from the impression I get, isn’t HYS older than what they would be looking for?”

Yes, but allow for the Asian Age multiplier and her Hollywood age is now 19-21 years old. She might even still get carded.

There’s an Asian dude playing a HS student in Twilight. He’s 28 years old.

Tiffany doesn’t quite have an accent but if I only heard her speaking I might guess that she’s Korean (or, as she might put it, “Krean”). I’m not sure how to describe it–she kind of talks like her mouth is small, and cuts vowels a little shorter than would be standard for American English. BTW in my experience that SoCal Korean accent (not quite the same as a Valley girl accent) isn’t limited to Cali Koreans.

As for Brian…I’m not hearing the Jersey accent, but I live here and I don’t think I really have an accent so I may not be the best judge.

I don’t really know much about Twilight, but from the impression I get, isn’t HYS older than what they would be looking for?

The girl with the short hair is Jessica. The one to the left is Tiffany.