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jmowreader

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15. I can do it by listening to someone for five minutes

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Tue May 17, 2016, 05:02 AM

May 2016

Give me a week in a place where they have a distinctive accent, and people from there will believe I'm a local. Unfortunately, it didn't work when I lived in Korea...

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Has anyone here successfully acquired a regional accent other than the one they grew up with? [View all] raccoon May 2016 OP

Hmmm, spent a year in Memphis... Wounded Bear May 2016 #1

I've pretty much lost my New Jersey accent LiberalEsto May 2016 #2

Not exactly, but I can turn it off and on. femmocrat May 2016 #3

See post 12 liberaltrucker May 2016 #13

I was born in Florida OriginalGeek May 2016 #4

W tried and failed Major Nikon May 2016 #5

I left Texas many years ago and received speech education in drama school to rid CTyankee May 2016 #6

"Ten and tin" -- to me they are the same. LOL. nt raccoon May 2016 #9

If you want to acquire a regional accent, find yourself a dialect coach. mnhtnbb May 2016 #7

But only Marxists subscribe to dialectical thespianism pinboy3niner May 2016 #8

A joke that too few here will get. n/t Chan790 May 2016 #16

moved from southern Ohio to Iowa in junior high oldandhappy May 2016 #10

Not really Sanity Claws May 2016 #11

After 7 years in Western Pennslyvania.... liberaltrucker May 2016 #12

I can do several. KamaAina May 2016 #14

I can do it by listening to someone for five minutes jmowreader May 2016 #15

My wife and one of our children do it effortlessly, without thinking about it. hunter May 2016 #17

I grew up in Texas. Avoided the accent in everyday life. Can slip to it if I choose to. kairos12 May 2016 #18

Nope, and never wanted to Rob H. May 2016 #19

Ran off with an Australian girl back to her home town for 3 years GOLGO 13 May 2016 #20

Spent 5 Years RobinA May 2016 #21

Ayyy, yo.... CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #22