Sunday, January 12, 2014

Foreign Accents

everyone assumes americans have terrible accents

11 comments:

  1. D: Is THAT what I sound like when I speak German? Ahhhh noooo stupid Americanization...
    Now I feel a little bad for making fun of my History teacher for pronouncing Chinese words incorrectly... GAH, that would be embarrassing.

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  2. I get told I sound French when speaking German and I am American o3o

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  3. I take it you speak from experience.

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  4. I have had this happen to me, too. I was in Australia and ran into a couple of guys from Austria. They didn't think I was from America and bashed Americans similar to the cartoon. When I told them I was American, they turned beet red.

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  5. I recorded myself reading aloud in German and I sounded a great deal like the stereotypical American in the cartoon. So now my elderly German friend is helping me with pronunciation :).

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  6. Well, bashing Americans is pretty fashionable. :-/ It still amazes me what people say when they don't realize (or forget) that you are one! I think they do it without really realizing it, honestly, it's just kind of become fashion/habit.

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    1. I guess that's what we get for being the greatest and best nation on earth

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  7. Prejudice can sometimes be bad. But I'll say learning isn't so hard. You can learn how to speak german through skype at websites like http://preply.com/en/german-by-skype and be actually fluent.

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