A Coffee Break with Mark - 18 July 2022
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2022
- Monday thoughts from Mark and the Coffee Break team including:
- Can penguins change accents?
- Coming up this week
- German Magazine 2.07 - Großglockner Hochalpenstraße
- Italian Magazine 2.07 - Dante, il padre della lingua italiana
- Masterclass and Club updates
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Apologies for some sound issues in this video - we'll get them fixed ahead of next week's video!
In Australia migrants from English speaking countries tend to keep their own original accents, depending how old they were when they came here, and the Scottish accent is notorious for not changing! I came here as an adult, and when I speak to my UK friends they say I sound Australian, but I with some people I can say three words and they ask me whereabouts in the UK I come from!
Hi Mark
Great programs.
When i was a young girl i went around copying a neighbours accent . It was a really high nasal pitched voice . I did it so much , one day my sister threatened never to talk to me , so i stopped it . Looking back i always wanted to learn languages. I love accents . My main reason though to learn languages is to fit in and have a little understanding of cultures.
Over the last 10 years I happen to befriend some women of Chinese, French, Russian , Persian and Korean Nationalities. So took it upon myself to try to learn their Languages .
And am glad to say i enjoy learning languages with the Coffee Break Team . You put love in language 🌎.
Congratulations on your 18th year Anniversary .
Thirty years ago when I returned from my third year of university spent at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, I was working at a local fast food restaurant in my home state of Montana (USA), when one of my fellow employees asked me if I was from England. And this was about two months after I had returned home, so she could still hear some traces of the "British" accent I picked up while in the UK! I always remember this with fondness😊
My mother was from New York City. She lived there till she was 29; then she moved to Montreal, Canada, where she lived for many years. Throughout that time, and even into her eighties, If she talked to an American, her New York accent immediately came to the fore! An accent is a way of saying we belong (or belonged) to a particular place. Of course, most Canadians (except those from "down east"--the Maritimes and especially Newfoundland) think they have no accent at all!
I am so grateful to get to know Mark better. I am impressed by his talents as well as his ambition! By the way, my son's inlaws are Korean, and though I have not learned the language --yet-- I have noticed, and maybe you hear it, when you hear spoken Korean on the street it can sound more like Italian than, say Chinese or Japanese. Love the phonetic alphabet!! Grazie mille, Davide di California!!!
I really love accents.... i work in aviation and i had the privilege to listen to many accents ... i can be able do distinguish accents and sometimes dialects when people speak.... thats why i am encouraged to learn languages. Its very fascinating
Good morning Mark. I am addicted to your voice and value your work, currently the one in the German section.
I will subscribe today for the full program offered by the Coffee break Academy.
I am grateful to you.
I spent the early years of my childhood in Brooklyn, NY. However, my father was Canadian from Toronto, and my mother was from the Kentucky mountains with a strong Appalachian accent. In school I was taught to sound things out phonetically - but I never knew how they were supposed to sound! I never did develop a Brooklyn accent. Then when I started studying Spanish in high school, I was taught with a Castilian accent. When I moved to southern CA in my early 20's, the Spanish was all spoken with a Mexican accent (no thetas). Then, when I took private Spanish lessons for my bi-lingual certification, my teacher was from Buenos Aires and had an Argentine accent!. So - I have learned to love all the different accents and fully expect to be corrected every time I open my mouth! C'est la vie!
As I listen to Coffee Break podcasts I wonder if I will develop a Scottish accent🤣🤣🤣
Thank you Mark and team for the excellent Coffee Break Italian podcasts - they just keep on getting better! And thanks also for this video.
As a native English speaker with a good knowledge of German and a reasonable knowledge of French, I chose to study linguistics. I think my interest in language and language learning was sparked when, as a 10-year-old moving from the South West to the North East of England, I adopted a bit of a Yorkshire 'lilt' in order to fit in. I knew I wasn't fooling anyone!
I have observed that some people seem to pick up accents easily, in their own and other languages. This has certainly been true in my case, and I have no doubt it has been an asset in my language learning. Now Im learning a new language after quite a few years, when I speak in Italian I can hear that my pronunciation is wrong - but I haven't got my mouth around the correct pronunciation yet! With your expert tuition - and perhaps a trip to Italy - perhaps this will come.
The Coffee Break Italian courses are interesting and really helpful. I can't wait to listen to the new CBI Mag series, alongside ploughing ahead with CBI course 3. I listen to CBI in tandem with keeping up my Duolingo practice (I notice you also mention this excellent app in your video). Both tools give me different ways of consolidating and improving my Italian skills.
Many thanks again to Mark, Francesca and team.
I live in a large retirement community in Florida. Most everyone is from “somewhere else.” Because of this, we hear accents from all different parts of the US, Canada, UK, etc. It is so interesting to me that we understand each other in context even though some sounds, speed of speech, and even different words for the same things are used. Between Coffee Break and other podcasts,as well as a conversation group I belong to, I am hearing different Spanish accents and I think I am getting a better education than I would have in a formal school setting.
My native language is Mandarin Chinese. It's very true that when I talk to Chinese people with different accents I do change a bit how I speak. For example when I was in Beijing, I picked up the way the local people talk quickly. I speak English for over 40 years, but when I lived in England for three years, I was not able to switch over from my quasi American accent to the British accent. Language speaking is truly amazing.
¡Hola, Mark! Like you, I lived in Spain during college, and left Madrid having adapted to the strong 'acento español', which I love, complete with strong use of the theta. Since then, I've lived in Southern California, where the Spanish accent is a rarity. Since it sounds exotic (and, I think, a little pretentious) to people around here, I have dropped it and adopted a more generic Latin American Spanish pronunciation. When I talk to people from Mexico, I can see their mental wheels spinning. They can hear something "back there", but can't identify it. I often get asked where I'm from. Sometimes they say "are you from Argentina?", which is weird, because my accent sounds nothing like the Argentinian accent. It's a fun game to make them guess. :-)
Hi Mark, with reference to your remarks on changing accents, I appear not to have lost my Northern twang despite working in some varied environments. Fifteen years working with (not in) the British Army amid a variety of accents from public school on; 17 years in the Middle East again with folk from around the world. I did a Spanish course firstly in Salamanca ‘donde, como dices, se habla el mejor español ‘ but when then went to Buenos Aires, I found myself falling easily into the Porteño accent some of which I still echo today with my spoken Spanish. Interesting, ain’t it?
Hi Mark 😁 I'm well versed in every Spanish dialect and have joked that I'm "accent-confused" as I haven't decided which one to use myself ! I finally decided on Argentine Spanish as I decided to relocate there. But as soon as I went to Mexico for a work trip, I adjusted my slang and prosody to fit in 😅 I'm from Philly and my own accent won't ever change in English but the words and manner if speaking do for sure!
Love all you do! I always recommend your programs to anyone looking to learn
Hi Mark enjoyed the video much better than just reading an email, the contents has some life and the personal touch adds to the interest factor. Originally I came from the North of England just outside Manchester, thought that may not be the north to everyone, then moved to the South Coast for most of my adult life. My accent was not hard Lancashire but after years in the South only the odd phrase come out northern or when I have had a little too much vino!
Yes , love the yellow shirt . After 2 years of dreary Covid we need brigh and happy . !
Bright ....
My father i law was born in Slovenia- moved to the USA in his 30’s. He spoke English with a thick accent the rest of his life!
I learned French originally in the South of France, then I continued to study with a native French speaker from the Lyons area who corrected my pronunciation. But when I go to the province of Québec, each town has its own regional accent which is hard to understand. But once I listen for 10 minutes or so, I do understand them and interestingly, they start to correct me! I used to resist this, but now I enjoy learning some of their accents.
Yeeey Dante Alighieri woooohoooo love everything you do guys and being apart of this global language family 🥰🥰🥰 in terms of your question, coming from an artistic background then my voice did change as we were playing characters so it moulds abit. Since learning Italian yes I see my accent changes abit when speaking to people in Italy haha so yes we are all penguins basically 🐧☺️
I’ve always been fascinated by accents. I grew up in Essex/North East London so had what I think of as a “neutral” accent, but I’ve lived here in Australia for over 40 years. I still sound English to all my friends, but English people think I sound Australian.
Something I’ve found interesting is that when we moved here I (and I think most non-Australians think this) thought there’s only one Australian accent, but now I can tell that there are very definite regional accents. For example, in Melbourne people switch “a” and “e” so they say “Malbourne”. I think it’s a combination of getting my ear tuned and the accents actually changing over the years,(probably partly because of immigration.)
I was born in NYC and lived there until my early 20s. I have lived in Connecticut since my late 20s and my accent changed dramatically and quite quickly. My husband is from North Carolina, and his accent is also CT now. But we each retain certain words and sounds that are from the places of our childhoods, and if we speak on the phone to someone from "home" we revert a bit, me more than my husband! I find it hard to understand why some people move to a new place and retain their home accents. It feels to me as if it must be a conscious decision, because as you say, Mark, ir just happens on an unconscious level and seems like an evolutionarily useful thing since humans are social animals!
I have noticed that my accent changes slightly in my native language (American English) if I spend a significant amount of time around people with a different accent. In the US there are several distinct accents.
Good morning Mark and about the accent, oh yes I change my accent every time I visit my sister in London UK coming from Virginia US so there I start with the british accent ( my mother was english ), living in America my accent has changed and now I have my own accent not american not british , I call it Suzanna’s accent 😂😂 my own accent
I have something of an old Virginia Tidewater (eastern portion of a mid-Atlantic state in the United States) accent, but it also has been modified quite a bit from years of living near the mountains in the western part of the state. I am conscious of wanting to preserve it, but I admit: when I lived in other regions of my country, I found myself losing it. Fortunately, I now am back in Virginia for good, so I think the accent (with a slight mountain twang tossed in) is safe.
My daughter plays hockey, and has commented before that there is a hockey accent. I suspect as we are in the northwest of the USA, near Canada, that the accent is a bit French. I don't know. It does seem like after she has spent time with her hockey peers that she displays a bit of a new ever-so-slight accent as well. I agree with your speculation, Mark, that it has something to do with assimilation and cultural connectedness.
@@sarahtucker3305 David here, in California. To me there is most certainly a hockey accent. I think of it as Wisconsin, Minnesota, Toronto. When I moved to California from Michigan 60 years ago, the kids in the neighborhood would ask me to say certain words so they could hear my Midwestern hockey accent.Hah
Interesting about accents. I grew up in the south (middle area of Georgia, USA) I had a mild southern accent. As a grownup my accent became more neutral and less “southern”. But even now when I am around my cousin who has a heavy southern drawl I pick up her accent. Btw - Question: in your opinion, which region in Italy has the most “pure” spoken italian?
A tricky question, Jane! It's often suggested that the Italian spoken in Tuscany is the most standard Italian. There's an expression “risciacquare i panni in Arno” which literally means “to rinse one’s clothes in the Arno river (that flows through Florence)”. The meaning is that maybe you should go to Florence to brush up your native language, even if you are Italian. It's all a matter of interpretation though and could be very subjective!
Hello Mark. I preordered the book Italian Coffebreaks, but I am not sure if I have ever received it. Can you help me, please to determine if it was ever shipped, or if it is only a digital book, where can I access it to download it? Thank you very much.
you might want to contact them on their facebook or via the chat on their website
@@ThePoopyboy11 I finally found it and have started it. Thanks.
Hi Mark - my family think it is really funny when I speak to anyone from my home county of Northumberland. Apparently I redevelop a strong Geordie accent 😹😹😹😹
NB - just a quick mention. During your video the sound fluctuated from loud to soft every few minutes. Occasionally this made it difficult to hear what you were saying. As I’ve been using my iPad all morning with no issues, the sound problem may be from your end.
Hi Selma. Thanks for your comment. Yes, we are aware there was a small sound problem with this video and mentioned that in the description. We'll fix this for the next video and hope that your enjoyment wasn't spoiled too much. We have added captions to help mitigate the problem - click the CC button on UA-cam to watch with captions.
Are you aware your voice/audio is dropping in and out on these last few youtube videos? Some sort of issue with the mic or the mic settings perhaps...
We've checked the audio and it seems to be working okay! It may be a problem with your phone signal
The sound on this video goes up and down. It's a bit annoying.
Apologies for this. We only noticed it after it was filmed and tried to fix it as best we could. We've made changes for the next Monday morning video, and have mentioned the sound problem in the description. We've also added captions to make it easier to follow - just click the CC button on UA-cam and the captions should appear. We hope that it hasn't spoiled your enjoyment too much!