children picking up the accent....
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Re: children picking up the accent....
Regarding the American accent, what programmes do they watch on TV?
My nephew had a serious American accent when he was young which resulting from watching that irritating purple dinosaur all the time.. No other reason for a kid living in the bog in Ireland to have an American accent!
My nephew had a serious American accent when he was young which resulting from watching that irritating purple dinosaur all the time.. No other reason for a kid living in the bog in Ireland to have an American accent!
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Re: children picking up the accent....
Regarding the American accent, what programmes do they watch on TV?
My nephew had a serious American accent when he was young which resulting from watching that irritating purple dinosaur all the time.. No other reason for a kid living in the bog in Ireland to have an American accent!
My nephew had a serious American accent when he was young which resulting from watching that irritating purple dinosaur all the time.. No other reason for a kid living in the bog in Ireland to have an American accent!
One thing , she does read more here and watches t.v less.
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Re: children picking up the accent....
It's a yoof thing. I don't mind the Australian accent - there are many variations and it is not compulsory to sound like a bogan, or whine.
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Re: children picking up the accent....
I don't have a problem with Australian accents - but I do have a problem with the psycho-babble-surburban-celebrity American one I hear only on public transport. (I've said it before - it is compulsory?)
It's a yoof thing. I don't mind the Australian accent - there are many variations and it is not compulsory to sound like a bogan, or whine.
It's a yoof thing. I don't mind the Australian accent - there are many variations and it is not compulsory to sound like a bogan, or whine.
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Totally agree, my youngest sounds so cute. I love the fact he has an accent, at the end of the day didn't we all want to blend in as children, nothing worse at primary school than being the odd one out. Both children have lived in Australia longer than the UK (been here for 6 years) and thank god they have lost their Essex drawl.......
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I've had people confuse my accent for Irish on more than one occasion although I don't sound "American". And what does an American sound like? There are as many, if not more, accents in the good old USofA as there are in the UK.
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Oh yea, my daughter rides her 'ScooDer to the grocery store' and then wants to buy 'capsicums' and 'rice bubbles' and have a go on the 'slippery dip' in the park on the way back, she gets thirsty then and has a drink from the 'bubbler', gets home and wants to play her 'compuDer' and was 'like seriously freaked mum' when 'heaps of bugs' came out of her carrots.....add every sentence going up at the end then I think we are going that way.....aaaa I think it's cute.....DS was born here so he has no chance or Estuary English .....
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Re: children picking up the accent....
My 12 year old still has a very strong Glaswegin accent, to be honest I think it is stronger than when he was in Glasgow - he recently made a comment that the girls like it!
The 3 year old has a mix - I notice it in the way he says his own name "Shay" and in the word "work" - Scottish accent pronounces it as wUrk, he puts this strange emphasis on the O! And well, when we say "Shay" the Aussies this we say "she", you have to have a looooooong drawn out "a" - ShAAAAAAAy
The 3 year old has a mix - I notice it in the way he says his own name "Shay" and in the word "work" - Scottish accent pronounces it as wUrk, he puts this strange emphasis on the O! And well, when we say "Shay" the Aussies this we say "she", you have to have a looooooong drawn out "a" - ShAAAAAAAy
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Re: children picking up the accent....
been here nearly 2 years and our 5 yr old sometimes twangs the ozzy accent but we soon beat it out of him when we hear it!
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Re: children picking up the accent....
Though some ppl think the strine sounds terrible, as we now call Australia home, we hope our kids can blend in well and speak just like their peers ASAP.
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Re: children picking up the accent....
Our eldest (aged four) hadn't picked up the accent until we sent her to pre-school. Even though she had Aussie friends before, it seems to be since she started pre-school two months ago that she has developed the accent. Yoghurt is now Yo-gurt, water is war-der, trousers are pants, cake cases are patty pans etc. I think it is quite cute, especially when it is mixed in with her 'Queen's English' accent (dance is darnce, bath is barth and so on).
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Re: children picking up the accent....
Our friends moved to Brisbane one year ago with their then aged 4 and 6 year old. They both have an aussie accent now, its funny to here them talk. I am sure my 5 year will pick it up quicker than my 8 year old, he sounds like a farmer, A real Hampshire hog! I actually like the Aussie accent and have no problem with them picking it up.
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Gunna is another one I hate, how does going become gunna, the drawl is the worse of all, when each word is rolled into one nasal whine, and aussie men who call women mate or swear as if F and C are a normal conversation regarding airconditioning or carpet
Keep beating him
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Re: children picking up the accent....
Regarding the American accent, what programmes do they watch on TV?
My nephew had a serious American accent when he was young which resulting from watching that irritating purple dinosaur all the time.. No other reason for a kid living in the bog in Ireland to have an American accent!
My nephew had a serious American accent when he was young which resulting from watching that irritating purple dinosaur all the time.. No other reason for a kid living in the bog in Ireland to have an American accent!
Carol