A random ramble.
I've been taking speech therapy for my accent and it's HARD! I never knew just how bad my accent was. I only worked on 'r's and 'o's today with a touching on 'a's and it was difficult! Aussies sometimes say their 'r's and sometimes don't. Like I'd say "heeya" instead of "here" but I say "therapy". Or "dahg" instead of "dog". The trick is keeping my tongue in the right place.
I had them arguing with EACHOTHER over the proper way to say 'patterns'. Pattns? Pattahns? The differences are subtle but crucial.
My boyfriend speaks British and that REALLY doesn't help. We have a cat named Sand and he says Sawhnd. I say Sahnd. And we argued for weeks over what our cats name was. Yeah, it's Sahnd, JUST LIKE AMERICA. PFFFT damn Britist accent! Nooot helping.
I need someone to help me with my practicing and I have an upperclass British Australian boyfriend, a cockney British muminlaw and a VERY heavy Australian father ("G'day mate, lehts 'ave a rippah!").
Learning a new accent IS SO difficult, you wouldn't believe, REALLY. You THINK you can 'fake' an accent until you REALLY take lessons and realize you SUCK at it. It's so hard (hahd) to learn (leahn) new words (woehds) when what (wot) you (ya) know is different (difrent).
Pfftttpppt.
If anything, I reccomend taking an accent class because it really helps you learn a new culture!I'm learning to say silly things like "Good onya!" and "I'd like toemahtoe saws on mah pizzerahnd ga-lic bread."
Either way, I'm enjoying myself - plus I'm helping speech pathology students get their A!![]()



I'm learning to say silly things like "Good onya!" and "I'd like toemahtoe saws on mah pizzerahnd ga-lic bread."
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I was trying to say dinner (dinnah) and he kept going "DEE-nah"... And I said, "Dee? That doesn't sound right." And he said, "No, like dinars (deenah), the currency!" I started crying. I'm trying really hard to learn the accent and he's TEASING me and making it more difficult for me. It's not easy already and now he's just being mean!


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