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The Stubborn Accent Won't Go Away
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Why exactly is it such a big problem? I tend to believe it is more an identity thing than a language one. Honestly if you don't need to be 100% perfect( going for an anchor job for example) I would not give it much thought. It may also be that your looks give you away too. Don't worry and I suspect less people will ask.
ESB, tried sending you an e-mail. Guess it didn't get through (or maybe it's in your spam folder?). Will try again, maybe tomorrow - I'm sick with the flu or something right now.
I'm not really sure whether one of our cute BBC TV weather gurus, by the name of Tomasz Shafernacker, tried desperately to rid himself of a perceived "stubborn" accent or not. He is Polish, born in Gdansk, and partly educated back home in Poland but also, latterly, in the UK - in London and also in Portsmouth, Hampshire.
I don't think he made a conscious effort to acquire the accent he now has and which you can hear in the link below. I think it came naturally to him through being here for so long and for having been educated here for the most part. If I wasn't aware of his background I would assume he had lived in (Southern) England all his life.
Post uni in the UK (and partly in the USA) he qualified as a weatherman though the UK's Meteorological Office, now based in Exeter, Devon, and now appears in the regular BBC TV weather forecasting/reporting slots.
His accent is now undeniably British - of the Southern English English variety and no way would you think he originated from outside this country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9ctEDqqJtk
Don't you think he's cute? Like his name. He has a lovely personality and also has quite a substantial gay following here in the UK with many solely tuning into the BBC TV channels to get weather updates just to see this guy, and in a country whether the weather must be the most difficult and irritatingly and perfidiously unreliable of any other in the entire world! ;-)
I don't think he made a conscious effort to acquire the accent he now has and which you can hear in the link below. I think it came naturally to him through being here for so long and for having been educated here for the most part. If I wasn't aware of his background I would assume he had lived in (Southern) England all his life.
Post uni in the UK (and partly in the USA) he qualified as a weatherman though the UK's Meteorological Office, now based in Exeter, Devon, and now appears in the regular BBC TV weather forecasting/reporting slots.
His accent is now undeniably British - of the Southern English English variety and no way would you think he originated from outside this country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9ctEDqqJtk
Don't you think he's cute? Like his name. He has a lovely personality and also has quite a substantial gay following here in the UK with many solely tuning into the BBC TV channels to get weather updates just to see this guy, and in a country whether the weather must be the most difficult and irritatingly and perfidiously unreliable of any other in the entire world! ;-)
Mega sorries to the lovely Tomasz - I got his surname slightly wrong! It's Shafernaker - no "c" in it. I knew there wasn't, but I inserted one anyway. Not my day today so far and it's only 09:25!
T, no, it didn't go through. Once again, my address is:
eugenebalt [AT] yahoo.com
thanks!
eugenebalt [AT] yahoo.com
thanks!
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