Trazi Vise
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Dec 21, 2008 11:27:11 GMT -5
Post by Trazi Vise on Dec 21, 2008 11:27:11 GMT -5
How long did it take for you to loose your original accent when you moved to your new countries?
Everyone knows I was born in Australia and English was my first language and was mostly spoken everywhere; however people ask me "where are you from, you have abit of an accent"?. Go figure.
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Dec 21, 2008 11:29:15 GMT -5
Post by Ja Ona i Pivo on Dec 21, 2008 11:29:15 GMT -5
Dont have any accent
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Trazi Vise
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Dec 21, 2008 12:23:01 GMT -5
Post by Trazi Vise on Dec 21, 2008 12:23:01 GMT -5
That's a shame I like accents...
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Dec 21, 2008 13:10:39 GMT -5
Post by sweetnugs on Dec 21, 2008 13:10:39 GMT -5
I moved to USA when I was 14.. I somehow picked up English in about 6 months, mainly due to some formal training back in the school during the war. Anyway, since I spent so long here, I developed a Bostonian accent which is pretty known in the States and we often get made fun of it. Just about everyone who lives in the New England states has some type of accent that the rest of Americans poke fun at. Much like with accents from BH. whenever I start to speak, people realize I'm from Sarajevo.
But yeah in general.. people tend to love accents. I've had multiple/different experiences while traveling. When I went to the west coast (Las Vegas), people automatically assumed I was from Boston based upon the way I talked. No one said anything about being non-American. The same thing happened when I went to the south (Texas/Florida). However, I noticed that I don't pronounce the letters V/W the way Americans do. This is apparently a case with just about all Balkan people who learn the English language. Since we have no W in our alphabet, its not natural for us to make a partition of V and W. Anyway, thats what gives me away as a non-American. I used to hate it at first until I realized girls like to sleep with guys with accents. Score.
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Dec 21, 2008 13:17:44 GMT -5
Post by Trazi Vise on Dec 21, 2008 13:17:44 GMT -5
^^^lol, it's just sometimes a guy with a distinguished Euro-English accent seems so alluring. Not the uneducated accent though, yuk :-) It's has to be a chunky accent though, pity you lost yours :-)
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Dec 21, 2008 13:20:39 GMT -5
Post by sweetnugs on Dec 21, 2008 13:20:39 GMT -5
^^^lol, it's just sometimes a guy with a distinguished Euro-English accent seems so alluring. Not the uneducated accent though, yuk :-) It's has to be a chunky accent though, pity you lost yours :-) Depends on the area I go to really. I never know when the accent will come out. Australian/British accents are wicked sexy to Americans here.
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Dec 21, 2008 14:28:03 GMT -5
Post by Trazi Vise on Dec 21, 2008 14:28:03 GMT -5
^^^I find that so strange...because I hate them; even though I had an Aussie b/f for 5 years; the general Australian accent is terrible. Give me balkan anyday :-)
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Zvone
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Dec 21, 2008 15:26:55 GMT -5
Post by Zvone on Dec 21, 2008 15:26:55 GMT -5
Nobody ever said anything about my accent, so I guess I don't have one and thankfully so.
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Dec 21, 2008 19:41:36 GMT -5
Post by SKORIC on Dec 21, 2008 19:41:36 GMT -5
I dont know what accent i have lol not aussie though
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Trazi Vise
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Dec 21, 2008 19:44:50 GMT -5
Post by Trazi Vise on Dec 21, 2008 19:44:50 GMT -5
^^^I can just imagine how you sound like rofl...mix of many wogboys :-)
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Dec 21, 2008 19:46:57 GMT -5
Post by boscrocop on Dec 21, 2008 19:46:57 GMT -5
Mah, I think that there is a thing about that you have to learn a language before you are 12 to speak it fluently. I guess a lot of immigrants grow up with their native language and hence never speak fluently
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Dec 21, 2008 19:47:18 GMT -5
Post by SKORIC on Dec 21, 2008 19:47:18 GMT -5
;D
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Dec 21, 2008 19:50:42 GMT -5
Post by Trazi Vise on Dec 21, 2008 19:50:42 GMT -5
I don't think it matters ljudozder about age, when or how. My parents came to a new country when they were 16 and 7 respectivley and they don't even speak their native tongue fluently. They would have a better command of English than their native tongue, well maybe apart from my father. It's about how you mind learns and stores the info, I read something interesting about how people learn languages and why some can adapt to so many so easily. If I find the article I'll post it.
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Dec 21, 2008 20:08:19 GMT -5
Post by CiKoLa on Dec 21, 2008 20:08:19 GMT -5
I dont know what accent i have lol not aussie though i never thought so either until i spoke to an American while on holidays in Croatia. I sounded like the biggest skippy ... i felt sick listening to myself. In Australia however ... the Aussie accent isn't as noticeable, but many Aussies will pick up on the fact that your not one of them. Certain words, sound different ... probably because we speak another language at home. They can tell u apart from a mile away.
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Dec 21, 2008 20:15:44 GMT -5
Post by whateva on Dec 21, 2008 20:15:44 GMT -5
^^^I find that so strange...because I hate them; even though I had an Aussie b/f for 5 years; the general Australian accent is terrible. Give me balkan anyday :-) I think if we added all the years you spent with all the different boyfriends you had it would make you about 140 years old. I came to the US when I was 16, i was 3 months shy of turning 17. At that age it is pretty much impossible to lose the accent.
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MiG
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Dec 21, 2008 20:17:13 GMT -5
Post by MiG on Dec 21, 2008 20:17:13 GMT -5
I don't think I do, but some of our people say that I do (Fuckin' Balkan Cakers ).
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Dec 21, 2008 20:26:09 GMT -5
Post by boscrocop on Dec 21, 2008 20:26:09 GMT -5
When down in the Balkans some people have been able to tell that I am from the diaspora by the way I talk, I asked them, "how do you know", and they were like "we just know, I have a friend that came back to Bosnia and talks the same way you do" And this is not in the sense that I used foreign words, or used wrong words, but by my accent
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Dec 21, 2008 20:46:23 GMT -5
Post by Trazi Vise on Dec 21, 2008 20:46:23 GMT -5
Yes but the funny thing is Croatian was NOT my first language and not the language spoken in my family home when I was growing up. So I don't know why they think I have some kind of an accent.
this one is for whateva...yep you're right, they add up quickly when you can't meet a decent one apart from that one I mentioned above that lasted 5 years.
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Dec 21, 2008 21:17:52 GMT -5
Post by Caslav Klonimirovic on Dec 21, 2008 21:17:52 GMT -5
There is probably a genetic predisposition to how your voice sounds. Some people litterally can't roll their r's which is a terrible thing to have if you are actually from our area.
I'm from Australia & I don't like the Australian accent. American accent sounds the clearest & best to me.
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Dec 21, 2008 21:34:47 GMT -5
Post by lozonjare on Dec 21, 2008 21:34:47 GMT -5
I was born in Albania and lived there untill I was 10, some people say I have an accent, but most don't think I do.
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