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OmegaDestroyer
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posted January 21, 2011 05:51 PM |
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In a very short time, my sister developed a Yooper accent during her tenure in college in Upper Michigan. If you don't know what a Yooper accent is, you're lucky. To share the pain, here.
Oddly enough, I went to the same college and my accent did not change. Furthermore, I've been living in a different part for almost 2 years and fortunately I've remained untainted. Even better, my gf who is from the area does not have the accent. Not sure how that has happened but I will take it.
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Keksimaton
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posted January 21, 2011 07:49 PM |
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That Yooper accent would be interesting to hear. It's propably like English with Finnish and Dutch and stuff. Can't be too bad really.
The only people I've ever really spoken English with have been German waiters and booksellers in Germany when I went there with my family last summer. The Germans apparently couldn't tell any difference between us and native English speakers as their first guess was that we were American or Brittish. They seemed surprised when we told them that we were from Finland. "Oh! How do you know English so well?" Though I guess that it's a bit of a shame to not know German when going to Germany. Perhaps if we did know German they would've asked if we were from Denmark or something. The siren call of Germany is irresistible for the Danish ghetto dweller.
When it comes to Finnish, it's prety easy to hear foreigners and sometimes Swedish speaking or otherwise bilingual Finns speaking Finnish. Colloquial dialects are easy to understand though there is sometimes the odd misunderstanding or two.
I couldn't tell the different Swedish accents apart even if they were colour coded.
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bLiZzArdbOY
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Nerf Herder
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posted January 21, 2011 08:06 PM |
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Justice demands that I post this:
The perfect English accent 
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The_Gootch
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posted January 22, 2011 03:07 AM |
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Accents within a givin language are easy to change. What isn't easy is the ability to speak a second or a third language with a proper accent.
So yes Aculias, it'll be easy even for you as a meximerican to pick up the english accent. But the older we get the harder it is to speak a different language without a thick accent. The reason for this being our brains and the way our myelin sheaths harden over time.
Children who are exposed to foreign languages at an early age have the greatest probablity of speaking them fluently without an accent. Conversely, after the age of twelve or so, it becomes increasingly difficult.
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