Raising a Truly Bilingual Child

Re:Raising a Truly Bilingual Child by geomark on Saturday July 22, 2017 @10:54PM (#14830676)

A bit OT but the idea of no accent is kind of funny. My kid goes to an international school in Thailand. I hear my kid's classmates speak English with Australian, British, Canadian and northeastern American accents plus an accent we call "international school accent". I'm from California and of course I think I don't have an accent. Same as those kids and their parents. Yet I have a hard time understanding some of them.

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Re:Raising a Truly Bilingual Child by vacri on Saturday July 22, 2017 @11:12PM (#14830722)

Well, you can't literally have no accent. I think that the GP means that there is no 'tell' that the people are eastern european when they speak.

In the UK itself, it's estimated that there's a different regional accent every 25 miles or so.

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Re:Raising a Truly Bilingual Child by pbhjpbhj on Sunday July 23, 2017 @04:38AM (#14831418)

Occasionally I manage to do a "Henry Higgins" and detect a main accent and sub-accent; there are a lot of hints in dialect though, like what you call a bread roll ...

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