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Thank you for your thoughts Andrea. Yes, unfortunately I’ve had this kind of discrimination from English people more than once, but now that I’m older, I handle it much better!
Nicely written Andrea, I have a few tweaks to make, but very little. Well done!
> 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. You are missing an ‘it’ in this phrase. Can you figure out where it should go?
> You need a preposition: to be discriminated against
I’ve never been discriminated against because of my accent
> 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.
✅ who live (“they”)
✅ fascinated with
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