What dialect of american english am i speaking???

Don't mention my poor japanese accent!
I just would like to know what dialect i am speaking!!

[I read this]

Tokunoshima mayors meet Hatoyama on Futenma

Three mayors of towns on the southern Japanese island
Tokunoshima have told Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama that they oppose
transferring US base functions from Okinawa Prefecture to their island.

The mayors met Hatoyama at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Friday.
Hatoyama is considering moving some functions of the US Marine Corps Futenma Air Station
from Okinawa to Tokunoshima, about 200 kilometers north in Kagoshima Prefecture.

In the meeting, Hatoyama referred to the heavy US military presence in Okinawa,
and said the burden must be shared across the nation to maintain the Japan-US alliance.

Hatoyama said he understands that Futenma's functions should not be moved too far from Okinawa.
He added that he would be extremely grateful if Tokunoshima agreed to host some of the base's functions.

In response, the mayors gave Hatoyama a petition bearing
26,000 signatures of residents opposed to relocating the functions to Tokunoshima.

One of the mayors, Akira Okubo, said that although he understands Okinawa's burden,
the people of his island unwaveringly oppose such relocation and
will never allow the construction of a military base on their island.

Okubo urged Hatoyama to join hands with US President Barack Obama
to reduce the number of military bases rather than move them around.

Hatoyama has pledged to resolve the Futenma issue by a self-imposed deadline at the end of May.

In addition to the idea of moving some functions to Tokunoshima, Hatoyama hopes
to transfer the rest of Futenma's operations to a new pile-supported runway
in shallow waters off US Camp Schwab, also in Okinawa.

On Tuesday, Hatoyama said during a visit to Okinawa that
it would be difficult to transfer the Futenma base out of the prefecture entirely,
from the viewpoint of maintaining US military deterrence.

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[ddamico3]

no dialect. standard american english with a japanese accent.

[Shalom2378]

@ddamico3

Thank you for giving me comment!

I have been waiting for answer like that.

[itachi1303]

Sounds very western american. pretty good english btw ^^

[Shalom2378]

@itachi1303

[Shalom2378]

@itachi1303 So my english is based on things spoken around califonia or Los Angels or something? If i speak,someone of eastern american feel strange like "Why this japanese is speaking western dialect??"

[HiTEqMETHOD]

English isn't really divided into dialects. There are various slang terms used in English speaking countries, and of course different accents but in America people speak the same generally. It's more about the different American accents. For example someone with a Boston accent pronounces words differently than someone with a New York or southern accent, but no one is speaking an entirely different dialect.

Japanese can be much more complicated than English in that aspect.

[Twolves121]

@Shalom2378 Won't get nothing like that. I could understand you kind of. I'd say that Japanese accents in the Americas are the hardest to get rid of. You can listen to how i say things but i'm from the Midwest. You're most likely not going to the midwest though.

[Chichiri520]

When I first heard it, it sounded like standard yet Western American as well.

[Raymasaki]

すみません が

あなた英語 いいです

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[ZeroHope2survive]

I dunno about dividing English into dialects. By some definitions, there are probably too many to count and they all bleed together so smoothly that it'd be hard to know where to draw the line. As far as American English goes, the difference is limited mostly to accent or whether we call our soft drinks "soda" or "pop". What you're speaking is definitely, as everyone has said, "standard English". I would call it "textbook" English.

[TheForwardGaze]

I understood most of what you said. Your dialect is called "standard American english" which is what most people speak in the U.S. You only need to work on pronounciation. I once spoke to a Japanese teacher of english from Tokyo, and I couldn't understand anything he said. You shouldn't have much difficulty in the U.S. as long as you can understand spoken english.

[capone70]

I would call it "Americanized", which is the standard. Very good for a native Japanese speaker. When I was in Japan, I met so many people who spoke "English", but had never spoken it with an English speaker in their life, which is why they retained their strong Japanese accents. Keep it up!

[CTastic1]

Yeah western english. a lot of people in the south sound like that as well. The ones without the Heavy southern accents, that is lol. Very good speaking. Just remember L is not R. L is said by putting your tounge on the roof of your mouth and flick it out with an "uh" sound. L "un. Not Merody. MEL (tounge on roof of mouth flick out with UH. ody. meLody :D

[cloudberry121]

What ddamico3 said.