I occasionally hear people complain about English spoken with foreign accents. I am usually fairly forgiving of people who know my language better than I know theirs. Spanish accents don’t bother me, neither do Mediterranean or Indian accents. Oddly enough though when it is obvious that English is a person’s first language and they pronounce the letters differently than I do that bugs me. I just listened to the hymn His Eye is on the Sparrow, and the girl on the recording has a beautiful voice, but she pronounces sing as “seeng” and it drives me nuts. There’s a YouTube video of four LDS missionaries singing Because I Have Been Given Much and one of them has a very slight Irish accent. Everything is gorgeous until he sings “my thanks is thanks indeid.” The little differences just stick out like a sore thumb. English is a funny language and American English just sounds better to me than other dialects. End Rant.
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Latter Day Sinner 
3 responses to “Accents”
There are a few British dialects that I struggle with. It can be difficult to get my listening brain to transition from Irish English to Scottish English. Mostly, though I struggle with accents from the East that I’m exposed to less often. I do pretty well with Japanese accents and fairly well with Chinese accents, but I struggle with Korean and Cambodian accents.
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The thing is with me is that if I’m listening to a Chinese accent I’m prepared to hear inconsistencies because English is a second language. It is someone going along with smooth English and then one word is friggin way off that bugs me more than it should.
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Valid, especially with the awareness that it bugs you more than it should.
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