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Topic	How do you feel when someone says a word in another language with an accent?..
Kradek 02/09/24 1:06:22 AM #50:	Lairen posted... You dont need to change your accent at all to say words right... I guess anyone who immigrated to america and doesnt try to change their accent when speaking english is rude and not trying to say the words right according to yall.... Yall offensive as hell. Uh, ESL people are definitely self-conscious of their accents, worry it makes their English sound poor, and often strive to mitigate it so that they sound more proficient in English. I live on the U.S.-Mexico border and have met many Spanish primary speakers and on the Internet non-Hispanics I've seen often apologize for how their English sounds due to their accent. I once dated this Mexican girl who was a green card holding legal resident, had such great English considering she didn't learn it until like middle school when she started coming to school here, and yet she was very self-conscious that she "had an accent" she would sometimes apologize for. It's very normal for people to want to mitigate/erase whatever natural accent they have due to their primary language when trying to sound the best that they can when speaking another language. The point is to successfully communicate with another person, having an accent obfuscate the language when communicating with someone who has that language as their primary language can make that a challenge. --- My metal band, Ivory King, has 2 songs out now - allmylinks.com/ivorykingtx (all of our links there so you can choose which one you'd prefer to use) <cite>Kradek posted [p:978740214] in How do you... [t:80691421]...</cite> <quote>Lairen posted... </cite><quote>You dont need to change your accent at all to say words right...I guess anyone who immigrated to america and doesnt try to change their accent when speaking english is rude and not trying to say the words right according to yall....Yall offensive as hell.</quote>Uh, ESL people are definitely self-conscious of their accents, worry it makes their English sound poor, and often strive to mitigate it so that they sound more proficient in English. I live on the U.S.-Mexico border and have met many Spanish primary speakers and on the Internet non-Hispanics I've seen often apologize for how their English sounds due to their accent. I once dated this Mexican girl who was a green card holding legal resident, had such great English considering she didn't learn it until like middle school when she started coming to school here, and yet she was very self-conscious that she "had an accent" she would sometimes apologize for. It's very normal for people to want to mitigate/erase whatever natural accent they have due to their primary language when trying to sound the best that they can when speaking another language. The point is to successfully communicate with another person, having an accent obfuscate the language when communicating with someone who has that language as their primary language can make that a challenge. --- My metal band, Ivory King, has 2 songs out now - allmylinks.com/ivorykingtx (all of our links there so you can choose which one you'd prefer to use)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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