Many people change languages/dialects/accents over their lifetime due to moving countries/regions. Some people lose their accent to a great extent and adopt a more neutral sounding accent in order to sound more professional. Some people adopt the accent/dialect of the region they move to for college/work.
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Yes but I wish I didn’t. I don’t really like English.
Not really but pretty close to it.
Not really. When I was seven I lived in Mexico and only spoke Spanish. Fast forward 44 years and now I live in America and speak pretty good English. I don’t think I have much of an accent. Of course I still speak Spanish, just not as often as I used to.
IRL yes but online almost exclusively english now
My most meaningful chance was after moving to another state here around 8 years ago, so mine has changed a bit. Not only that, but also the way I speak has also changed.
Now in English, I don’t speak it too often so can’t say.
Well, I was born in Poland and still live here. Whole family is Polish and stuff, but I had a lot of exposure to English language. Most importantly, it was my language of tuition in highschool, which I just finished 2 weeks ago. Initially, school had a preference for British English, but I didn’t really like it. At the same time, I was watching more and more American yt. So, now here I am, speaking English with Polo-American accent, as I make Polish sounds, but stress syllables in American way. Oh, I also have a habit of speaking English with my friends so often that I even developed American accent, when speaking Polish. Summing up, I don’t speak the same dialect/accent, practically everything has changed.
Not really. Which is weird because I’ve lived in the midwest my entire life, same state even but in the last 10 years or so i started incorporating more southern phrases and words into my daily vocab
The accent and a few of the affectations have weakened, but not shifted to something drastically different. Just more generic American and a bit less Texan.
Yes. And I’ve lived in a few southern states for about the last decade.
If I ever find myself saying y’all or got to talking. I’ll put a shotgun in my mouth.
Nope. When I was 7 I had a really noticeable Texas accent, but I’ve lived most of my life in Colorado, so now my accent is more of a generic TV news accent
I lived all over the United States, but mostly PNW, both rural and city. My moms from Mexico, dads from PNW, and my older brothers formative locations/experiences were mostly the same. We all talk differently, except for some unique pronunciations here and there.
I feel like I grew up really neutral with a few Mexican tendencies, adopted some countryish western, and in my teens mostly settled on 2000s California and skater type of talking (everyone I knew was from CA). But now that I moved to the east coast to where my wife’s is originally from, some south Jersey and northeast tendencies are slipping through. ‘Ternament’ turned into ‘Tournament’, orange is now “ahrnge”. Shit like that. I feel like I have a weird unholy mix of telltale words and tendencies. Which I’m sure is pretty common these days.
I’m Bosnian, but I’ve lived pretty much my whole life in Australia.
When I speak Croato-Serbian, people immediately know I’m diaspora.
When I speak English, people have no clue what my accent even is kek
I live in Nebraska but was born in South Carolina. My dad‘s family is from South Carolina but settled here in Nebraska as it was my mom‘s home state. And with my dad being a southerner I can easily slip into a southern accent and not realize it.
I live within 30 minutes from where I was born, as far as I’m aware my accent hasn’t changed significantly.
No, I only did with my parents and siblings.
My parents are gone already a few years, and I don’t talk to my siblings that often.
Language, yes. Prior to 7 I spoke Khmer and English but by 7 it was almost entirely English because there weren’t really any other Cambodian kids at my school that also spoke a lot of Khmer.
Dialect is a little more complicated. I grew up in the Midwestern US but also in the inner city. As I got older, I adopted more AAV as I spent a lot more time around Black Americans. So by high school I had this weird mix of Midwestern English mixed with AAV English.
As for accent, definitely. My current accent is all over the place. I have a weird mix of the “neutral” American accent, mixed with AAV, mixed with East Coast US, mixed with some Southern US, and a little bit of British English, mainly in the form of slang.
Whenever someone asks me where I’m from, they’re always surprised when I respond from the Midwest. My accent says otherwise, according to them.