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Can you get an accent from living somewhere for a long time?
Again from personal experience, adults who move to a different location will gradually adapt to the local accent to some extent, pick up local phrases and words, some new pronunciations, but they speak with an unmistakable accent that they had when they originally moved.
How do accents develop?
How Do Accents Develop? Put simply, accents are born when speakers of the same language become isolated and, through evolution, unwittingly agree on new names or pronunciations for words. Dozens of these small changes result in a local ‘code’ that’s not easily understood by outsiders.
How do you develop a native accent?
How To Improve Your Accent In Another Language
- Listen To Native Speakers. Yes, listening to native speakers is a pretty obvious tip.
- Crack Open Your Dictionary.
- Get Familiar With Your Mouth.
- Hey, Watch Yourself!
- Try Some Tongue Twisters.
- Try Using Babbel.
Why do Indians change accents when they go abroad?
Indians are not the only ones who change our accent when we go abroad. Anyone who lives abroad — especially English-speakers who move to other English-speaking countries — for any period of time will subconsciously change their accent. It’s a natural process of integration — of imitation.
Why do English speakers change their accent so often?
Anyone who lives abroad — especially English-speakers who move to other English-speaking countries — for any period of time will subconsciously change their accent. It’s a natural process of integration — of imitation. I know plenty of American and European expats in Bombay, who have been told how “Indian” they now sound by their friends back home.
To avoid the social biases around accents, they’d rather adapt to the accent that they’re hearing on a daily basis. Often when Indians travel overseas for education, their accent gradually starts to change. Indian students often speak in an American dialect which becomes very noticeable when they return to India.
How can we make the Indian accent cool?
The only way to make the Indian accent “cool” is to influence pop culture. And it’ll happen slowly, the more confidently we stick to our own way of speaking outside the Subcontinent. The Indian accent has been portrayed in Hollywood as diligent and pacifist based on perceptions around the Indian stereotype. | Flickr/Istolethetv