Our house was so silent because my father had a thick German accent. He gave up about it, wouldn’t work on it at all. Very unnatural.
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Both my parents had German accents. It got less over time but never went away completely, no matter how much they tried to lose the accent.
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I like the German accent on English … My moms mother is an import from the Philippines … Its very hard to understand her sometimes … I remember getting in Trouble when I was younger… She told me to get on my chews… Now! … I said I don’t know what chews are I’m sorry lol… She was saying shoes…
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Hmm I was thinking… I was an army brat growing up… So there was lots of different accents…plus My dads step mom is korean…and my moms mother is flip…I’ve lived in the north south and west of the us they all have diff accents… And most of my teen years I was in Germany… I never thought twice about accents… Do people get belittled for their accents? That seems messed up… How can you expect someone who learned English second or third not to carry over syllable pronunciation from their native dialect… The US has at least 3 distinct accents and none of those are from the country our language originated from…
Grandmother was from England Blackpool kind of a very low class part of the world. Limited used of correct use of English and bad accent.