#i've seen expat advice telling foreigners moving to the us to keep their accent

[ekingston]

Hello Mrs Kingston!

You mentioned languages and your love for them on a post about American accents sounding movie-like to people. I also love languages and your tags had me wondering about your languages - you mentioned changing/removing your accent in your mothertongue. What is your mothertongue and why did you remove your accent? Your tag also seems to imply that you live somewhere that English is taught as a second language, yet your surname sounds English - is that by marriage, by chance or because you/your family moved?

Sorry for the many questions!

hello anon! my username is fully an alias! when i married my (american) wife we chose to hyphenate, but even her last name doesn’t sound particularly american, whatever ‘american’ is supposed to be in this context, hahaha. my primary language is dutch! i’ve lived here my whole life, my accent was regional/generational and i got rid of it because my ten-year-old self heard it on a recording and decided it was ugly (she was right)