Last week we read an article for homework. The article was about how there are so many different dialects of a the spanish language. The part about the article that stuck out to me however, was when she said someone who grew up not speaking spanish as his/her first language is still just as much spanish as someone who grew up speaking it as their first language. I feel like i can relate to that part because my parents are from pakistan and whenever i go back i try to speak the native language of urdu, but i always have an "american" accent in it when i speak. My family there finds it funny though and usually laugh. I mean i dont get offended because it probably does sound funny to them. Anyways just my thoughts for this post.
I also found it interesting How language and I liked can affect your day to day life. and how people from different.countries can detect and American accent with in their own language.
ReplyDeleteRabee, Thanks for sharing this thinking about your own language. You are really making me think about how location is so important in thinking about language practices and responses to language.
ReplyDeleteI feel you dude. When I speak my home language to my parents and their friends I always seem to not speak it in the way it should be spoken. I got an accent. Plus, it's hard trying to be bilingual. HA!
ReplyDeleteHey Rabee. I liked your post, it was really interesting. I love accents and I'm always interested in how different dialects sound. I think it's neat how certain accents can define us in a way. For me...I guess I have somewhat of a southern accent. It's enough for people to know right off that I'm not a Yankee. But accents are a part of our identity, it's something that's unique about us. Nice blog :)
ReplyDeleteRabee, I really liked how you included a personal story in your post. It really showed me your thought process and what your thought of when your read this piece. I agree with the author when they said that pretty much,, language is language, it shouldn't matter if you have an accent or not. I liked that you pointed that out. Good Job!
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ReplyDeleteI know where you'r coming from. I speak a native language to and have an english accent. Most people laugh at me and the majority of them were family members...but then when they would try to speak english I would try not to laugh but sometimes I just cant help it. I also thought that it was interesting when stated "..someone who grew up not speaking spanish as his/her first language is still just as much spanish as someone who grew up speaking it as their first language." I guess were all the same in some one way or another.
Really interesting thought!!! I grew up speaking english as my first language but I also went to a school where I learned german. And your blog just made me think of how at school my thought process throughout the day was mostly in german but then when I went home I spoke english again. It is really an interesting correlation between language and thought process.
ReplyDeleteI have a similar problem as you too. I speak fluent Vietnamese with no grammatical errors, but my parents, grandma, grandpa, and my Vietnamese friends say it sounds to "American". What are you going to do? I can't pick up on the American sound in my Vietnamese.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who was born in England and then moved here when she was four. She's always had a little bit of an accent but not enough to be noticeable. But she would always get teased about how she said water haha. It sounds stupid, but she never felt like she completely fit in anywhere, because she isn't an American citizen, but she didn't grow up in England so she isn't very British either. I guess what I'm trying to say is that a lot of people can relate to this reading! I think it's cool that you picked up on how it relates to you.
ReplyDeleteThis idea seems really big to me... about how our identities are so tied to our languages and to others' perceptions of languages...
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