#then I proceeded to gush about their accents because English sounds so melodic with a Soanish accent | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

alenadragonne · 1 year ago

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I forgot to post this because brain, but yesterday my Mexican coworkers told me that it sounds really pretty when I speak Spanish. 🥺🥺🥺🥺 they said my American accent is really cute and “Spanish sounds better when you say it then when we do.” Which obviously is false, but I have NEVER been told my American accent is positive. It’s always been referred to in a negative light and it made me almost start crying.

#then I proceeded to gush about their accents because English sounds so melodic with a Soanish accent #I’m learning so much with them and I get to apply what I learn which is like fifty percent of the struggle of learning a language #they are the sweetest #oh also this all spawned because we have a daily work meeting #in which my production manager made me tell a Spanish joke I told him weeks ago to everyone #on the spot #no warning #half of my coworkers are Spanish native speakers #and the other half don’t know Spanish at all #so for some it didn’t make any sense because they couldn’t understand me #and for the other half they were probably trying to figure out what I said because of my accent #anyways it was hit either way and I got compliments on it even today as being super funny #oh the joke was #‘como se dice un zapata en ingles?’#‘a shoe’#‘salud’#which I’m pretty sure I got form here like 8 years ago lol

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