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  • Andrea

    Member
    July 15, 2021 at 6:55 pm

    Hi Kerin,

    regarding UK, I wasn’t totally aware about a snobbery around accents, at least I didn’t think it was at this level! The situation described in the lesson, with the guy who complains about the scottish origin of the teacher is just incredible, and it goes beyond accent discrimination I think.

    It’s your personal experience, right?

    Well, I think that’s just the point: it’s not the accent in my opinion, is the mentality of people that link the accent with the origin of someone.

    I’ve seen such situations here in Italy, especially between northern and southern accents, and even in the same region too; personally I’ve never been discriminated because of my accent, tuscanian one is percieved as “cool” in other regions: I have a bunch of uncles, aunts and cousins that lives in Abruzzo and Lazio and they are afashinated about my accent, and me too about theirs.

    About speaking in english, I always feel a bit uncomforable to talk with a native speaker: once I gave direction to two english tourists and they told me that my english was really good, I thought they were really really kind 😀

    I don’t feel uncomforable with my accent, I think it’s nice to have different dialects and pronunciations, I like to hear them and sometimes I use some terms of other dialects too!