So a friend, who happens to be trilingual, told me that one of her professors said that people who are multi-lingual tend to shift accents when they are around people with different accents.

I've seen this in myself, and the other multi-lingual people I know say they do it too, so I was wondering if there was a scientific explanation, or if other people out there notice it too. I know many people on this board don't speak English as their first language, so I assume you're at least partially bilingual, if not fluently so.

Thanks for any input.

I tend to speak to slur my words more when around other Southerners, but when I was living in South Florida, I had a much sharper "bite" to the ends of the words, especially when speaking to people from the Northeast.

And in Spanish, I've found that I prefer Colombian accents over the rest. Mexican Spanish just baffles me - I really can't understand it at all when spoken. There's something about the tones used that annoys me. And the Madrid accent? No lo entiendo.



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