My Thoughts About “do You Speak American?”
After watching this video, I asked myself “Do I speak American?” Absolutely, the answer was no. In the past, I thought American English was only a language which pronounced “r” heavily. Surprisingly, according to the map of dialect, America can be divided by seven parts. They are Eastern New English, NYC,Philadelphia, The North, The Midland, The South and The West. And different regions of America have different dialects. In terms of the dialect of American English, I have a re-understanding of this language. I find it is interesting, even surprising, and I am more curious about that.
The dialects of American English is really interesting. Honestly, when I hear a conversation or a speech, I can hardly recognize the accents without special note, although sometimes I can recognize the obvious accents according to the meaning of the sentence. For example, most young California say [ʌ] to replace [ə], say “like” as “lake”. According to my personal experience, when I traveled to Miami, Florida, I heard that most people in there said “lift” as “left”. Moreover, Net English used among young people is another part of interest. For example, “das kool” equals “that is cool”, “lol” means “laugh out loud”, “How ya doin hun” is “how are
you doing honey?”, “g2g” means “got to go”, etc. Maybe they think typing English in this way is more convenient and fashionable, however, I do not think so. Furthermore, experts recommend that TV series is a good way to recognize and learn dialects since the actors of a program are come from different regions. At last, teenagers prefer to use some new words of phrases to express an common meaning, such as “bling bling” refers to expensive jewelry. This is popular and sometimes I also use that to express myself.
Actually, I am surprised about the dialects of American English in the following aspects. Firstly, in North America, people will laugh