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️ Christina 1986-05-20 
— 3 years ago(August 31, 2022 09:02 PM)When I was born, my mom had already gotten her Bachelor's in ESL!
(…English as a Second Language, or rather something like that.)
It's probably different for Americans to learn to speak like they're not American. Plus, most of my dad's ancestry is through Ireland. I may have a little Scottish from Glasgow, according to 23andMe.com, which is on the border of Scotland and England. I do have real English last names, not just "Anglo."
½ S/N Asian (40%+ Chinese) ½ Norwegian/Danish-Irish Swiss (Amish/PA) German French Dutch? French+Dutch Celtic-Irish English-Irish?
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TaraDeS — 3 years ago(August 31, 2022 09:49 PM)
You touch some interesting topics in 'passing'.
Yep…ESL = English Second Language
Sounds for me like "Esel" what means donkey.
This his how wars can start!
Yes, it's different to learn a foreign language than to learn another accent.
In a kind of way it's more difficult to change the accent, I guess.
Our Ex-Chancellor Frau Dr. Merkel trained hard to get rid of her Brandenburg dialect.
And if I hear myself on a record I realize how extreme my northern snot-talk still is.
Well, better than the Berlin dialect.
Somebody who's well trained in languages, dialects and accents (I'm not!) can tell you from where your forefathers came from. Irish and Scots sound cozy to me, some Brits snobby.
Americans often seem to have chewing-gums in their mouth.
Sigh, at the end it's most important to understand each other cause otherwise, as already said, …war! -
️ Christina 1986-05-20 — 3 years ago(August 31, 2022 10:13 PM)
Americans often seem to have chewing-gums in their mouth.
Maybe, we all picked up on it.
I speak British better than some "Brits" or some of the British or British people.
I am more comfortable singing in Italian than German because I learned it in a diction class for singers for 1 semester in college, my 2nd semester of my 1st year. Yet, I may have strong German for an American and was told I didn't have Italian, which I like anyway.
I see it like I'm a British person who wishes she made her home in Germany now. I'm just not American enough to go all out and say I'm still American. Where is, or what happened to America, anyway? They all abandoned whatever we had going.
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TaraDeS — 3 years ago(August 31, 2022 11:46 PM)
What happens in America goes on in many countries.
Or perhaps I simply become old and have problems to adapt to new developments.
In a few years will always tell the youngsters
"Everything was better before!"
.
The Brexit was for many Brits living in Berlin a personal drama.
For years they lived here and travelled home without problems.
Some got meanwhile a german passport but it's not so easy to give up the nationality.
It's not only
"a paper"
.
Hey, we may change identities!
You'll get my german papers and I get your Americans.
Ok ok, watched too many Hitchcock movies.
Much more fun your vocaroo!
You definitely do
NOT
have a chewing-gum in your mouth.
Then again you need some more training with the "R".
Your "R" is made with the tongue, ours with the pharynx (that word needed to look up).
With the tongue-R you risk to sound like Hitler and you don't want to be watched as a neo-Nazi like the
Rammstein-band
.
Some minor details:
student –> Schülerin (at school), Studentin (University)
teacher –> Lehrerin (Professorin only teaches at the University)
But great!
Really, without joke…your pronunciation is pretty good.
Well, you avoided that difficult "ch" till now what brings the most fun to beginners.
I love you = Ich liebe Dich
All beginners pronounce the "ch" as a "ck".
I love dick….ohhhhhhhhhhhhhkkkkkkkkkkkk.
The dictionary I like to use…it's reading to you!…without
"dick"
.
https://www.dict.cc/?s=Ich+liebe+dich -
TaraDeS — 3 years ago(September 01, 2022 12:14 AM)
by Frantiquarian September 01, 2022 02:06 AM
Member since February 18, 2020
What the hell is this, an OCD regurgitative haiku?
Oh Helloooooooooooo…one of my favourite sock-assholes again.
Where does your friend
"Noodles Malone"
just bully around or are you both the same?
Anyhow, you were much more fun in the Russian thread.
What happened to you?
Brainwashed? -
️ Christina 1986-05-20 — 3 years ago(September 01, 2022 01:14 AM)
Thank you for being so nice to me and helping me out!
Actually, they first taught us some German diction in Freshman Voice Lab, for singers starting out in college. Italian followed and was a whole semester, after that class.
So, if anyone wonders, it was very difficult or a lot of force to put all my thoughts together, but I thought, as a long time singer of semi serious music, I'm great at diction and language etc., like that guy in
My Fair Lady
likes, like I was interested in it at least. I tried to tell people, "I'm good at accents," but no one says anything. My dad said I was good at singing in Italian, and I tried some German, too. I feel I am more natural at accents than a lot of people, more natural unfortunately than poor Americans and more intense than Europeans. I find some Brits don't seem to be as British as I thought, too. Some Germans I found, like these musicians in the orchestra I've been following online, like to annunciate in pet ways more it seems, but they just like to copy one of their leaders, like in how they play and they don't do it to outshine her but to make fun of her or make her feel like they're on top, but it's not true. I know she's from Dusseldorf, it says, but she lives in Freiburg. That's where the orchestra is!
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️ Christina 1986-05-20 — 3 years ago(September 01, 2022 04:44 AM)
Duolingo just changed its whole look when I just logged in!
I tried it and got an interesting outcome! not sure if it's okay or if I'm okay in general but hope I will be.
"Excuse me, where is the menu?"
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Loki — 3 years ago(September 01, 2022 07:08 AM)
Good going! If you use a PC, hover over the underlined words that you don't understand (won't work when you're taking an exam) and it will show you what it means and vice versa if you're having trouble.
Oh phone click on the underlined wordd6for prompts.
They sort of do dump people in the deep end by immediately making you translate but they do provide tips and prompts if needed.
You get some more notes if you browse the lesson tips. -
️ Christina 1986-05-20 — 3 years ago(September 01, 2022 07:43 PM)
Thanks for the tips! I see you use Duolingo, as well!
½ S/N Asian (40%+ Chinese) ½ Norwegian/Danish-Irish Swiss (Amish/PA) German French Dutch? French+Dutch Celtic-Irish English-Irish?..?
