Oh hey there folks, today we're gonna talk about my Wisconsin accent, eh?
But first I gotta get inside cause I'm freezing my pooper off.
Okay, sorry about that.
I promise that will never happen again.
But I am gonna talk about accents today, because I've had a lot of people asking me about my
accent, and this is something that is actually very closely related to language learning.
And accents are something that are really interesting to talk about because everyone
has one.
No matter where you're from, no matter what language you speak as your native language,
no matter what language you're learning, you have an accent.
And every once in a while you run into a phrase or a word that sounds totally normal to you,
and to everyone else it sounds hilariously quaint.
You're probably made fun of someone in the past, or someone has probably made fun of
you for some of the things you say like "I have drinken water," or "water" or "y'all"
or "y'ins" or "yous guys" or whatever it is that you say in your dialect.
So today I"m gonna talk about my personal dialect, since a lot of you have been apparently
noticing some things that I say very strangely to you that sound completely normal to me.
So I'm gonna go through what's called the accent tag challenge.
And this originated on Tumblr, I believe, and it seems really fun.
You go through a lot of different words that are more variable depending on where you live,
or what dialect you speak, and we'll just see some of the strange idiosyncrasies about
some of the things that we say.
I've always considered myself to speak something somewhat close to the standard general American
dialect, but I don't know, I'll let you guys be the judge of that.
I know for sure there are some aspects of my language that are different from the standard,
or the neutral dialect, because of the place where I grew up
and the places where I've lived.