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| labujía Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4196 days ago 11 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 1 of 3 03 April 2015 at 1:35am | IP Logged |
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Hey y'all, was just wondering what you guys thought of this American ju jitsu
athlete's English. The first video is of her speaking in 2010 (at the latest), whereas the second one is taken from earlier this year. In the more recent video, her accent sounds quite different - not as strongly American as before, but potentially has some Brazilian influence? She moved to Brazil a couple of years ago, I think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfNd-lo6-Mg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Cvj8uoIwk For the record, her Portuguese seems quite good (at least in accent) from the third link - found below - and she is engaged to a Brazilian. I haven't listened to her pre-Brazil self and haven't paid attention to the structures she is using, but the accent does sound quite different in the two videos. Would be interested to know what the community here thinks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkDbdKdd1zM 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| robarb Nonaglot Senior Member United States languagenpluson Joined 5061 days ago 361 posts - 921 votes  Speaks: Portuguese, English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, French Studies: Mandarin, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Greek, Latin, Nepali, Modern Hebrew | Message 2 of 3 03 April 2015 at 5:10am | IP Logged |
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Her father is Brazilian, so I wonder if she was raised bilingual (like me)? I can confirm that her Portuguese is very
good. It isn't obviously non-native. Her accent in English indeed seems to have changed. People do tend to slightly and subconsciously imitate the accents of people around them both in individual conversations and over a period of time living somewhere. It sounds like she's near the upper extreme of the normal range in how much she does this. I wonder how quickly it changes back when she visits the US. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4292 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 3 of 3 03 April 2015 at 5:38am | IP Logged |
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I am not sure, but if she were really monolingual, and that happened, I can say that
things happen like that sometimes. Over the past few years I tried speaking to myself in Spanish and speaking with Hispanophone friends, whilst limiting as many contacts by using English despite living in two Anglophone countries. I have also been quite busy, so I did not meet up with friends that were Anglophones, so I actually spoke Spanish (with myself) more than English with people, other than when I had to go to the doctor's surgery, buy groceries, and stuff. I know some who are so surrounded by their heritage language that despite living in an Anglophone country, sound exactly like a foreigner from the country of their parents despite being born and bred here. End result is that my English accent is completely messed up, as if it was not already from living in both the UK and USA on and off, but now people mark about how it has a Spanish tilt. That mixed in with Mancunian and Bay Area accent. Edited by 1e4e6 on 03 April 2015 at 5:41am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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