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Let's talk about accents and dialects.
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My father has an inimitable accent, growing up as a young kid in Tehran, Iran in an Armenian household , where Armenian was spoken at home (also as a child he was sent to local public school while his 6 siblings attended private Armenian school because in his words he is "the black sheep of the family"), he left his family and Iran at 16 for Australia (which is where he learned English), he then left to go to university in Manchester, England and went to the U.S. after he graduated where he met my mother and she had me. So he speaks with an Eastern European/Persion/Aussie/British accent with an emphasis on the British/Australian part because that's where he learned to speak English and went to school.

As for me, in kindergarten I spoke with British accent with hints of Australian from both my father and watching the BBC with my mother (who's an Anglophile). According to the book "Divided by a Common Language", British and Aussie English are relatively similar whereas American English is very different.
Kindergarten was one of 3 years I spent living in suburban New Jersey, which I hated, they were very mean and bothered me about my accent and forced me to take ESL (English as a second language) classes, so I somehow taught myself how to speak with no accent at all AKA "Broadcaster's English"
Today I still speak with zero accent. Though if I'm too anxious or too comfortable, the British accent creeps back in (when I type mmy computer changes all my British spelling into American English, ie changing mum to mom)
I can also do a good British accent.

Note, they say Armenian has two "dialects" Eastern and Western, this is a lie they are completely different.
The type I speak "Eastern" is the type actually spoken in Armenia (it has a lot of Farsi [Persian] loan words) whereas Western Armenian has a lot of Turkish in it and is the type spoken by most Armenian-Americans.
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Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Lilitu - 09-21-2012, 02:05 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by pellaz - 09-21-2012, 02:50 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Pix - 09-21-2012, 03:10 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Pix - 09-21-2012, 03:11 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Pix - 09-21-2012, 03:24 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Corsac - 09-21-2012, 03:44 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Blue - 09-21-2012, 04:23 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by hue - 09-21-2012, 04:50 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Puck - 09-21-2012, 05:14 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Blue - 09-21-2012, 05:55 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by megumidesu - 09-21-2012, 06:03 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Marc - 09-21-2012, 06:13 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by megumidesu - 09-21-2012, 06:31 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by OrphanPip - 09-21-2012, 07:07 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by fenris - 09-21-2012, 07:24 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by dfiant - 09-21-2012, 09:35 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Lilitu - 09-21-2012, 10:22 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by megumidesu - 09-21-2012, 10:26 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Zet - 09-21-2012, 11:08 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by dfiant - 09-21-2012, 11:17 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Lilitu - 09-22-2012, 05:12 AM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by archubbycub - 09-22-2012, 05:24 AM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Blue - 09-22-2012, 05:47 AM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Rainbowmum - 09-22-2012, 06:03 AM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by rollingonwheels - 09-22-2012, 03:54 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Blue - 09-22-2012, 03:58 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Zennyboy - 09-22-2012, 03:59 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by Person66 - 09-22-2012, 05:04 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by dfiant - 09-22-2012, 08:42 PM
Let's talk about accents and dialects. - by dfiant - 09-22-2012, 08:43 PM

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