Att.: all US members: where do u live?
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Live91
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- 2 Oct 2006
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Me too! When were you there?HIYA!!
I have noticed there are a lot of US members, and have been wondering WHERE in the US you live???
I am VERY interested in the United States and have lived in New York and San Francisco...........Both cool places!!!
I wanna see San Francisco it sounds fun!
Kyoko_desu
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- 1 Apr 2006
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Oh! I've got a friend from there. Then do you say "hella" when speaking informally? Like..."It's hella hard."
... It's a small world,
Kyoko_desu
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- 1 Apr 2006
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Why can't you? Do they have strong local accent?
America's English has slightly regional accents,New England shouldn't be that bad.It's most challenging in southern states like Oklahoma,ALabama,W/S Virginias,S/N Carolinas,Georgia,Mississippi plus Texas.
What I've heard from my neighbor's daughter who had 1 year internship in Washington DC a few years back,she said East Coast local folks are not as hospitality due to harsh climate in winter months and fast pace competitive environment.
The region was America's first 13 colonies,it has alot of history and culture.I very much like to visit there someday,a place I can sightseeing the real " old colonial America ".
What I've heard from my neighbor's daughter who had 1 year internship in Washington DC a few years back,she said East Coast local folks are not as hospitality due to harsh climate in winter months and fast pace competitive environment.
The region was America's first 13 colonies,it has alot of history and culture.I very much like to visit there someday,a place I can sightseeing the real " old colonial America ".
Steve Ototo
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- 6 Oct 2006
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I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We are in the Rocky Mountains, and there is a 3000 m. mountain at the edge of the city called "Sandia Mountain." It is not a smooth mountain like Fujisan but is a sharp cliff. The mountain jumps up, up, up, right at the edge of the city!
The Rocky Mountains are very beautiful. I believe that many people from Japan who live in US come here to enjoy the mountains. There is a beautiful onsan in Santa Fe, and many hot springs in Northern New Mexico.
The Rocky Mountains are very beautiful. I believe that many people from Japan who live in US come here to enjoy the mountains. There is a beautiful onsan in Santa Fe, and many hot springs in Northern New Mexico.
Kyoko_desu
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- 1 Apr 2006
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The Rocky Mountains....
I would love to visit there some day!
I would love to visit there some day!
epigene
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- 10 Nov 2004
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Bostonians are well known for their accent. And, so are many New Englanders. Native New Yorkers have their accent (Brooklyn accent, if I remember correctly), too.
My former boss was a Bostonian, and he used to be teased by the employees (Americans from other parts of the US and Japanese) for his accent.
Kyoko_desu
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Oh, I see, epigene-san. Not only the people from the South, but the people there have their local accent. Then who, I mean what people from what states speak the standard American English, does anyone know?
Elizabeth
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- 22 Apr 2003
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Well, in all modesty I would say I speak as clearly as any newscaster. 
It reminds me of the book "Do YOU speak American?" unless the poster means we don't have strong dialects, which is true. Actually I don't think there are mutually unintelligible English dialects anywhere in the world so of course everyone can pretty much speak standard English, and we're all Americans at the same time. 
It reminds me of the book "Do YOU speak American?" unless the poster means we don't have strong dialects, which is true. Actually I don't think there are mutually unintelligible English dialects anywhere in the world so of course everyone can pretty much speak standard English, and we're all Americans at the same time. Standard American English is taught at US schools nationwide,hopefully we have credentially qualified teachers up to the task.
My observation and unscientific analysis,America's English spoken in deep South is Americanized British-English.Particular local English tongues in New England region probably closer to old standard American-English.I take into account,earliest settler populations in these 2 regions were mostly of UK ( English,Scots,Welsh,Irish ) heritage.
epigene
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- 10 Nov 2004
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ricecake,
Have you seen or read "The Story of English" either as a TV program on PBS, I think, or as a published book?
If I remember correctly, English in southern US (I don't remember exactly where in the South but probably places like Georgia and the Carolinas) evolved from "English" English from the Shakespearean days and English in New England is not (probably Puritan heritage?).
anthonylynch
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- 16 Oct 2006
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I live in North Carolina
I see that I'm not the only one that voted N/S Carolina
I see that I'm not the only one that voted N/S Carolina
daemon muse
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- 9 Nov 2006
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east coast...maryland...western maryland lmao
Thunderthief
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- 19 Mar 2006
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I live in the southern part of Illinois
dreamer
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- 15 Aug 2003
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Tehehe at least it's more english than my chinese-french accent XD
but really sometimes it gets really confusing...
Absolute Zero
Zero's Dark Side
- 21 Oct 2006
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I live in the very boring Quakertown, Pa. There's nothing to do in Quakertown.
twinklestar
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I am from the homeland of Navajo,state of Arizona.
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