What your English accent says about you
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- People say that they sometimes think I'm from England, because of my British accent. But I've actually come a long way in my English learning, from my native Cantonese accent, pivoting into something more American, to finally integrating into Britain as an immigrant and slowly picking up linguistic sounds that I like. What sort of technical processes did that involve? I'll explain everything.
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🥳 wow! Israel, love your video! Very informative and interesting! Haha, basically narrating how my English changed 😂 but I won’t be able to explain why and how in that detail 👍🏻
Posh Northern solidarity ✊🏻 You need to start saying "reyt" though. I'll infiltrate your speech with some Sheffieldisms too, don't you worry.
On the accent and belonging point, you're bang on, Manchester has people from all over the country and beyond such that labels like proper Manc feel meaningless. I would say as a native Brit though, I still have to perform different accents in different places (convergence, divergence). Class and accent in the UK are really drilled into you from birth and are a necessary tightrope to walk, especially if you have a non-RP/non-"southern" accent. I always feel like I have to be a chameleon to make interactions go well.
(To answer your question, I love Singlish and HK accent! I typed the word accent so many times, it doesn't look real anymore.)
the moment I start thinking about / having to think about all these subtle cultural tensions is the point I'm in too deep in a foreign language 🥲
bring on the sheff 🔥 idk how to say reyt tho, it just sounds welsh to me
great video! i'm a hongkonger too and i can relate to the struggle in deciding on an accent. was born and raised here and studied at a local school. i first tried to speak with an (imperfect) british accent, but i've realized how much american media i have consumed during those years and because of it i just couldn't comfortably do a british accent unless i tried really hard. now i have more or less settled on an accent mostly american, with some british influence on vowels and cantonese influence on intonation.
the Steven He vibes lmao ♥
He *is* technically from a Cantonese area originally, after all
@@RhapsodyinLingo I always wondered but could never find out.
he was born in Shenzhen (which, granted, is the most Mandarinised part of Guangdong) and moved to Ireland
My accent was Canadian but then it got hyperforeignized (my ɐw > aw) because I didn't want to sound too much like a Hongkonger, and then drifted into a more General American accent ([ɔ] > [ɑ]). Currently trying to regain the Canadianness, but I'm not trying too hard.
Cantonese accent❤❤❤
sorry it's slipped away from me 😭 native accent attrition
i've chosen the british accent, but i have to admit that some of my vowels are fked up by the large proportion of american content i might be exposed to, so my most natural accent would not be 100% british, but kinda like somewhere between (altho tilting towards british), with occasionally some american words used without me noticing, and with cantonese intonation to some extent ofc. and my frds hv always been telling me that i sound weirdly posh when i intentionally do a more british accent, which i would do if i am reading an article pre-written instead of speaking without a script.
i hv always been trying to speak any kinds of languages in the way they are spoken in the country/region they originated from or the more posh one, in another sense, whether or not they are older in history or not. for mandarin i chose the northern accent, instead of a southern accent like taiwanese ppl would speak. for spanish, i pick spanish from spain, despite duolingo uses latam spanish (i've learnt spanish before i used duolingo). but for portuguese it's a difficult one, my heart tells me to choose european portuguese, but there are not much free resources for it. a website that i found teaching european portuguese has to be paid. so i'd say now i'm temporarily coping with the brazilian accent and will most likely try to change it one day 😂 (sorry brazilians watching this comment)
the americanisms creeping in is probably a global phenomenon (problem? lmao) at this point
I wonder if anyone has ever mistaken you as somebody who grew up in the UK, or more specifically in the north, as your northern RP sounds very authentic. Also do you self-correct in natural speech when you notice your pronunciation is off?
yes and no respectively - more precisely, I've never met someone who was surprised I'm not from the UK, but people have said they wouldn't be surprised if I was from the UK. Sometimes I do a lil guessing game with people I meet (well it's getting old now tbh) and the closest answer they've ever got to the North was the South.
and for the second question, never when I'm having a natural conversation, unless it's a big slip, as in something that affects comprehension! but when I'm filming myself, I do. But ironically, as I mention, the more I try to enunciate, the more the HK accent comes out.