This activity on these web sites I found to be a lot of fun! It is funny to hear the way that people around even just the US area speak and sound. I was able to get the southern accents down easily and one of the northern accents, but all of the other ones I did a bad job at. I thought it was interesting if you clicked on the himts to see what they had to say. How some of the people would hold out a vowel sound or something which would really emphasize how they spoke in that certain area. I always wanted to have an accent, but I guess to other people in the world I do have an accent. When I went to Florida some years back we were talking to a family on a bus and they said that we pronounce the word ocean funny because we really hold out the o sound. I thought that that was interesting.
During the second ste I felt that it was pretty easy for me to understand the word black and desk, but that I had no clue they were saying busses and socks. This one was very difficult for me and I did not understand how the hints helped at all. They would just say a little bit more of the word around it.
Do you think that your "accent" compliments or goes with where you are from?
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I get made fun of for my accent a lot because of the fact that certain words that I say do not sound like a minnesotan accent. It does not bother me when people make fun of me for this. I like the way I say things, it may sound weird to others but to me it feels right.
ReplyDeleteI think everyone has an accent, and people can tell where you're from by listening to you speak, therefore I do believe that it does compliment where we are from. People automatically assume I'm from MN because I talk fast and hold specific letters longer, and I obviously am from here, so it makes sense and compliments the way I talk to where I'm from.
ReplyDeleteI don't know that I've ever been told I have an accent, but I have been made fun of for certain words I used. I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life and I say "pop" and "water fountain" and whatever other words we use. Just because I've never been told doesn't mean I don't have an accent though. I've been to other states and they obviously knew I was from the midwest so it's very likely that the way I speak is very midwestern.
ReplyDeleteI have only been told that I have an accent by my friend that moved to Wisconsin from Texas. I find it interesting that even after living in Wisconsin from 6 years he can still pick up on the Midwest accent and he still maintains a bit of a Southern accent.
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