Accents??
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Crabappleunt? I'm not sure that's a word...
Accents for me are something built to make me feel super anxious when talking to people with accents that are hard to understand because I don't wanna say "Pardon?" "Could you repeat that?" "I'm sorry, what did you say?" "I didn't catch that." "Sorry, I didn't hear you, could you say it again?"
Im british and I read everything as british, I usually ask an American if I don't understand something lol
I feel like saying you have an American accent doesn’t make any sense..
There’s like four distinct accents I can think of right away and each of those can change depending on the state or even the city at times.
Anyways I have an American accent.
There’s like four distinct accents I can think of right away and each of those can change depending on the state or even the city at times.
Anyways I have an American accent.
To me all American people sound the same as I’m British, but similarly British people all sound different too depending on where your from
yeah because I'm british but not english so most people can't understand me lol
sometimes i wonder what language bilingual people think in, like if you were born Spanish and could speak fluent spanish but spoke english normally on a day to day basis what language would you think in? 
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and i am englandese and i have a southern english accent. loll
megathonk:and i am englandese and i have a southern english accent. loll
I think if they were born speaking spanish, then they would most likely think in spanish. But if they were an exchange student or something and lived in an english (or whatever language they learned) environment, maybe it would shift? Im not sure. Ive had multiple foreign friends, some exchange students. (one from poland, one from norway, brazil, thailand, germany, etc)sometimes i wonder what language bilingual people think in, like if you were born Spanish and could speak fluent spanish but spoke english normally on a day to day basis what language would you think in?
and i am englandese and i have a southern english accent. loll
I have thought about this before but hever asked (anxiety pffft go away) so if ya know the answer, feel free to tell me hahahahaha
I think you'd probably think in the language you were first fluent in, but I could be wrong.sometimes i wonder what language bilingual people think in, like if you were born Spanish and could speak fluent spanish but spoke english normally on a day to day basis what language would you think in?
and i am englandese and i have a southern english accent. loll
I have a friend who is currently in the Basque region (in/near Spain) and is hoping to plant a church there with her husband. She's American and her first language is still English, but since she's been in Basque for so long (and probably trying to learn their language?), her accent has changed quite a bit and she almost sounds like someone whose first language is Spanish and is now speaking English. It's quite fascinating! Her grammar is the same as always, but she just sounds different haha.
i'm American but sometimes I say things with a british accent??
and I say mum a lot too so :shrug:
and I say mum a lot too so :shrug:
Thats cool. I know missionaries who are in japan and everytime they come back to the usa they sound more and more different. They say certain things with a japanese accent, and sometimes their grammar is a little wacky. Its cool how countries have that affect on people.
I heard that people subconsciously try to imitate someone speaking with a different accent in order to make them feel more comfortable.
um my name is jeff from a park jk
hey my name is peter a rabbit wait a minute
nick is a guy to you know
well am a um a person I think jk
hey my name is peter a rabbit wait a minute
nick is a guy to you know
well am a um a person I think jk
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