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Originally Posted by Airbornelawyer
For some, including me, this points to one of the biggest problems in language-learning, overcoming the inhibition of sounding stupid.
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That's interesting AL. I'd never heard that before but it explains a lot for me thinking back about learning different languages in school.
Regarding Texas, we lived in Houston for a year when I was in the fourth grade, before moving back to the northeast. I remember the first day in school after moving back, the kids asked me about my "southern" accent, when I didn't even realize I had acquired an accent (so now maybe I shouldn't be so hard on Madonna). To this day, "y'all" sounds more natural to me than "you all," which sounds awkward.
I did my b-school summer internship in London. I still remember clearly the first time someone at work asked me, "Where are you from with that American accent?" Maybe it was because they heard it coming out of an Asian dude, I don't know.
