Americans sound nasal

Does anybody else think Americans sound really nasal?
Like they say "I'm gonna go to the pardy"
And Nooooooo I don't wanna eat right nowwww

i agree, sometimes whiney in some states

I never really thought about our accents as being nasal, and I have still never really heard a nasal American accent accept for Ray Ramon's accent from his show, "Everybody Loves Raymond."

I can understand how some might think our accent is nasal. What I don't understand is the sound Yen was trying to illustrate by writing "Noooooo" and "nowwwwww." This would seem to signify dragging out words rather than nasality. Could you elaborate a little bit more, Yen?

Nasality has everything to do with climate. If the climate is really cold, you can't breathe too deep or open your mouth too wide, so you speak with your nose. This is my observation of different Chinese dialects. People in Southern China, like me, speak with no nasality at all. We substitute "n" with "l". But those in Northern China have a very distincitve nasal voice.

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Wingyellow writes, "Nasality has everything to do with climate." There have been studies about climate and language, but climate simply has no affect on language what so ever.

That is not true. I personally observed that my friend acquired the nasality after living in Canada for five years.

i live in canada, and i have never heard anyone say to me i sound nasal. obviously your friend got a cold, or you don't know what she sounds like. Canada is not as cold as you think. she probably lived in the terretories. thats cold. but hello, there is a summer too.

I think Americans sound nasal too. For example in the Nanny.The nanny has a nasal accent. It's abvious for me and everytime I go to the US I see the difference.

Yes, North American accents of English are nasal, as are French accents at the underlying contrastive level, and certain British English accents such as Scouse and Brummie. I don't think this makes these accents sound whiney, though.

C'mon people, the US is a big country. Some people talk that way and some don't. It's the same in other English-speaking countries.

I was just thinking tha maybe the people who are not Americans and saying that American accents sound nasal are only used to hearing East Coast accents. What do you think of the West Coast California accent? Does this sound nasal as well?

no just a bit cowboyish