kate23

Everyone has an accent, it's just that some people might have a more generic accent. With some Americans for instance, they might have a generic east coast accent, but it's an accent all the same. I'm a Floridian but I don't have a really strong southern sounding accent. I'm sure people would be able to guess that I live somewhere in the south based on how I say certain words but it's not obvious, at least as far as I know.

This is something I've wondered about a lot. I've been fascinated with accents for a long time, I think it started when I was 9 years old and the first Harry Potter movie came out. I was (still am!) obsessed with Harry Potter and I loved hearing the accents in the movie. I would love to learn multiple accents, starting with some sort of English accent. I think it might not be all that hard for me if I had a lot of exposure to whatever the accent I'm trying to learn because after I rewatch a Harry Potter movie I accidentally start saying words with an English accent! You'd think more people would try to learn an accent but I guess if you're not around people with the same accent it would be difficult to keep it up.

I voted Spanish. The first two 'common' languages I want to be fluent in are French (which I'm currently studying) and Spanish.

I've heard that English is actually fairly difficult. Us native speakers wouldn't think that (we're lucky in that sense I guess) but there's exceptions to a lot of the rules, silent letters, words that can be said in different ways to have different meanings (offense, defense, invalid, etc), confusing idioms, all the different accents that must be confusing for new learners, etc. That's not to say it's one of the most difficult - there are a lot of languages that are more difficult to learn. But it's not the easiest either. Supposedly Esperanto is the easiest language to learn. It was designed so that it would be.

I've learned some of the languages in the Eragon series. I don't think it's very much different from learning real languages - I got interested in it after reading the books and falling in love with the words. My favorite Eragon word is brisingir, which means fire. I just love the way it sounds.

Does anyone know of any good resources for Hawaiian? It's one of the languages I want to study because I really love Hawaii and the language, but I'm having trouble finding good resources. I've started out on Youtube and can't find much else.

I practice saying them out loud until I'm able to get the pronunciation right, then I write them down and I find that if I say the words to another person and explain the meaning that that helps as well.

I've always done this, it really helps me remember things and I just prefer writing on myself rather than paper. Only problem is, I'm not sure if the ink might be bad for you. I use crayola markers when possible because I feel like they're probably safer? I don't know.

I like a lot of unusual sounding names. First ones that come to mind are Adelaide (actually a city name in Australia), Halo, Lyric, Stirling, Lilac and a lot of nature related words, particularly Primrose, Lily, Ocean, Heather, Hazel, Clementine, Rowan, Storm...I could go on, haha. I really like my name so I wouldn't want to change it but I have named some pets after some of these names