Unfortunately for my fellow readers, this will be my
last blog post. As I write this last post, tears are streaming down my face.
Just kidding! I am jumping with joy. However, I did genuinely enjoy exploring accents
since it was the subject of my choice. Although in the beginning, I thought I
would be an expert and know all about these accents, there were still a lot of
things that I learned. For example, I am a big fan of Alex Pettyfer’s movies
and was completely shocked when I found out he was British because he pulls off
the American accent extremely well.
I started to like accents when I noticed the chance
of French accents from Belgium and Canada. To be honest, I hated the Canadian
French accent at first, but then I got used to it and now I quite like it and
love to copy it from time to time. Once I learned English, I discovered a whole
other world of accents that I never knew before. Of course, the British accent was
the first one and also the easiest for me to master. The Australian accent took
me a while to figure it, but now I speak with the accent all the time. On the
other hand, now I sometimes mix both British and Aussie accents together but
without knowing. I would switch from one accent to the other.
Another accent that I want to explore is the South
African one. I’ve looked into it briefly, but I can’t quite figure the real
accent because a lot of people that imitate it in videos use the stereotype of
the accent. In the future, I would hope
to speak fluently with an Irish accent, as well as the New Zealand accent. I
really love the way these two sound, but they’re much harder for me to imitate.
Wish me luck though!
Very fun journey into the crazy world of accents. I love how a single language can have dozens upon dozens of different accents, dialects, etc. I once met someone from the Maritimes, and even though they were speaking french, I could barely understand a word of what they were saying.
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