My Dialect


Through out my life I have been exposed to many kinds of dialects from around the nation. I was born in Mexico then my father's job moved us to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when I was five. I learned how to speak english there and spent most of my elementary school years their till I moved to Asheville, North Carolina. Now that I think about it I never really heard anyone say anything about the way I speak. People would assume since I moved from the North to the South I would hear a lot about a northern accent. Asheville is a very unusual place, it is a mix of hippies, mountaineers and rednecks but it is full of culture. Asheville is unlike another place I have ever been too in my whole entire life. I think since there are so many different type of people in Asheville everyone has their own kind of accent or dialect. It wasn't till I moved to Dallas, Texas my senior year that I really started hearing about the way I talk. Everyone assumed that people from North Carolina were a little like northerners with a northern accent or something. But when people heard me talk, they always told me it sounded like I had a mix of both. They said that I would say and pronounce some words with some sort of a norther accent and some others with a southern. It never really bothered me at all, I actually thought it was kinda cool. It made proud of where I had been and grew up. I feel like everyone should feel the same way. Watching those videos made me realize how interesting it is to see where people are from and how the use their language there. There are many stereotypes about how language is used in certain regions but when you actually talk to someone from that part you actually may hear something completely different.