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nkaziya · Newbie

chizungu

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Originally posted by: nkaziya
"People...ndifunseko! why is it the majority of us come to America and decide we are going to start speaking "Better English" and yet unconsciously make our accents worse? tithandizane chonde....let's keep it real...tayankhule like we did back home and keep our heads up! Let's avoid embarrassing moments like saying "rine" mmalo mwa line, "ladio" instead of radio "long " instead of "wrong" ....get the picture? Does anyone else feel me? chonde keep it real my people...I LOVE YOU! ***LADY OF WILL***"

buahahahhahahahahaha

reminds me of this Zimbabwian dude, he was @ some conference or some ****, and he was givin a speech , so instead of sayin "this election..."..dude said "this erection"..LoL

js · Member

i totally feel you but the R and L confusion has nothing to do with better english. even back home people have problems with differentiating r and l in spoken english. but what really bugs me is when they try americanizing their accent. period. just talk normal. let me share something that makes me a little proud of my broken english. " don't laugh at someone who speaks broken english, they know another language that you don't." so to all you out there be yourselves you just make yourselves sound like unintelligent fools with no roots.

phoebs · Member

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Originally posted by: js
"i totally feel you but the R and L confusion has nothing to do with better english. even back home people have problems with differentiating r and l in spoken english. but what really bugs me is when they try americanizing their accent. period. just talk normal. let me share something that makes me a little proud of my broken english. " don't laugh at someone who speaks broken english, they know another language that you don't." so to all you out there be yourselves you just make yourselves sound like unintelligent fools with no roots."

Amen sister, I totally agree with you. I have some friends who are that side but when you talk to them on the phone, it's funny that you find that they have changed their accents so much it's amazing. So I just give it a rest to say mebbe too much interaction with their American Brothers but really sometimes it sounds 'too borrowed'. But I guess it's fine.

Mbili_Ku_Njanji · Member

This is Mbili Kunjanji and I approved this message!

They say do not cry over spilt milk. The elections are over and so are the negative attacks, thank God! I guess that is how politics is these days. When it cames to English accent, do not be hard on people that are abroad. It so happens that one adopts other peoples' behaviours without noticing. It takes an outsider to notice sometimes. That is human nature. Now some other people go to the extreme, that means they have issues, low self esteam to be exact. When I was in Malawi, I thought Kamuzu had an American accent but when I recently heard his voice on one of Lucius Banda's song, I could not tell it was him till someone said something. Now Kamuzu was not facking the funk!

To the Bad Boys, I know we have not kicked it for a week due to our busy schedules, I am off to Orland Florida for a convention will be back Monday! Big up to you all and keep it crunking. Yeeaahhh!

Kalundi · Newbie

Some people think it is cool to change their accents once they cross the Atlantic. To me they just look foolish in doing so. Be proud of where you come from and be true to yourself. As far as r and l, even when speaking Chichewa a lot of people misplace these letters...

Special for Chakutundira, katunde makora ku Orlando...

Kalundi

tchelasi · Newbie

I don't know about the other countries but as for here in America for a Black person to understand you atleast talk like an American coz most black folks here talk ebonics "slang broken English" and do not understand the real English. uno wot am sayin! Ofcourse they're some wanna be's out here, we not just tryin' te be like them niggas aroun' herrre. Mwaiwala mumalankhula ngati antchito aku mulanje, tandipasako chere ndikathire mu pungaa" isaa iwe opusa ukatondinena ine iwe ngati ndaniii? anfana go now.

KAPALEPALE · Newbie

I agree with you tcherasi. I also wanna say you pple need to understand that when (we) in the usa and we speak english with our malawian accent it's hard for this pple to get what we are trying to say. And because we try to make them understand us we try our best to copy their accent's no big deal with that, like we showing off or anything. Now the main point comes where by we getting used to it it's hard to loose it. it's like once you go black never comes back, we meet this pple each and every day.

The Advocate · Newbie

quote:
Originally posted by: nkaziya
"People...ndifunseko! why is it the majority of us come to America and decide we are going to start speaking "Better English" and yet unconsciously make our accents worse? tithandizane chonde....let's keep it real...tayankhule like we did back home and keep our heads up! Let's avoid embarrassing moments like saying "rine" mmalo mwa line, "ladio" instead of radio "long " instead of "wrong" ....get the picture? Does anyone else feel me? chonde keep it real my people...I LOVE YOU! ***LADY OF WILL***"

This confusion in pronoucing the "r' and 'l' happens to everyone including the Americans, the British etc.I guess it's a personal decision whether to change or "better" the accent by trying to talk the way other nations talk.It takes quite some time to actually get it but as they say keep trying until you get it.I don't see why someone from another country cannot try to speak like he/she's from another country.You don't lose your nationality simply by speaking like an American or British.I have seen people on TV and even professional Hollywood actors mess up when talking and they say something like 'erection' instead of 'election' and as someone else has already mentioned in response to the former post, it happens in every language.I think everyone has the right to pick any accent they want just like they have the right to be individuals!

Kalundi · Newbie

It is inevitable that you pick up on certain habits, good or bad, of the area you live in be it in New York, Paris, London, Rio De Janeiro or in Kasiya. What matters is that you are able to communicate with the people you interact with. A wiseman once said "everyone has an accent"

Kalundi