Post by Tweetiepy on Nov 2, 2007 12:48:37 GMT -5
My dad's Hungarian, he came over to Canada in the 50s. Last summer my dad's cousin (also Hungarian and also came to Canada in the 50s) came down from Vancouver. He's got a thick Hungarian accent, sometimes he's a bit hard to understand. My dad's brother who moved to California around the same time, has been living in the states since then, came to visit my father after his wife died. My dad hadn't seen him since 1973 - long story.
Anyways, I meet him and we talk, he's also got this thick Hungarian accent, even thought he's been speaking English for about 50 years!
I say to my husband, "It's weird that both his cousin & his brother have this really thick accent even after living in English speaking countries for that many years and that my dad speaks normally without an accent"
Hubby says, "Your dad doesn't speak like everyone else! - he talks just like his brother does!" "No way!" "WAY!"
I mean, to me, he speaks English like any English speaking person, he has the "three/tree" thing going (my mom's French-Canadian she's got that thing going too), but apart from that, he sounds normal - my mom thinks he speaks normal too and I said this to my daughter and she thinks so too! But hubby says that no he has a thick accent too!
A colleague from work was mentioning that her mother is Scottish and I asked if she still has her accent and she said that if she did she didn’t hear it anymore, I thought that weird, but now I get it.
It,s still very weird that I cant hear the accent anymore huh?
Anyways, I meet him and we talk, he's also got this thick Hungarian accent, even thought he's been speaking English for about 50 years!
I say to my husband, "It's weird that both his cousin & his brother have this really thick accent even after living in English speaking countries for that many years and that my dad speaks normally without an accent"
Hubby says, "Your dad doesn't speak like everyone else! - he talks just like his brother does!" "No way!" "WAY!"
I mean, to me, he speaks English like any English speaking person, he has the "three/tree" thing going (my mom's French-Canadian she's got that thing going too), but apart from that, he sounds normal - my mom thinks he speaks normal too and I said this to my daughter and she thinks so too! But hubby says that no he has a thick accent too!
A colleague from work was mentioning that her mother is Scottish and I asked if she still has her accent and she said that if she did she didn’t hear it anymore, I thought that weird, but now I get it.
It,s still very weird that I cant hear the accent anymore huh?
