Accents

I am back from my recent vacation. Actually, I didn't really have time to write in my blog, and I also did not have access to a computer, so I guess it's a break from my blog. Sorry.

So, about accents. I have recently been pondering the topic of accents. I have a knack for picking up and copying accents. I don't know if it's a hobby necessarily, but I think it's fun. Languages for example. My voice teacher in high school asked me if I was Italian at all, because I could pronounce the words after her seemingly naturally. A friend of mine who was in Russian Choir with me, Blue Adagio's brother to be exact, complimented me on my Russian accent on the word "la" in Russian, which is pronounced "lya," something that was not very difficult for me to do. I just like to study the sounds, listen to them in my head, and then copy them, nevertheless what they actually mean. In spanish class my freshman year of high school, I must've had a good accent, because my teacher always had me read the dialogues in spanish out loud to the class. And today, I was complimented on pronouncing the name of a Brazilian city, Curitiba, very well by an RM who served in Brazilia. Cool, huh? That's talent. I guess. So, I think that's a fun gift to have. I can't do that with all languages, I hate singing in German, it's just I don't know. Maybe I have something against Germany or something. Singing in Hebrew's kind of fun, it's like German and Latin mixed together. So, that's how I feel about accents.

As for my own natural accent, well, sometimes I wish I could hear myself, since I don't think it's that prevalent in my normal every day speech. Since I used to have a lisp when I was younger, I try to listen and control my speech. Sometimes I still slip up and say an s instead of a t or vice versa. Those were my trouble letters, you see.

I am writing this on my brand new laptop, so that is perhaps the reason why I am actually taking time to write in my blog, since it is extremely convenient just to pull open my Toshiba and go online to my high speed wireless internet. I love this thing, I think part of it is the ownership that it is mine, and only mine, that makes me really enjoy having this. Since I have shared a lot of things in my life with siblings and other people, I enjoy having something that is completely mine, all the way. I think I'm going to watch a movie on my brand new baby...I just hope I don't drop it, I didn't buy accident insurance, just a two year warranty, in which they will replace the battery once a year if it dies, saving me about three hundred dollars. Well, to the movie, whatever it may be!

PS I also got a cordless mouse, since I am completely incompetent using the keyboard mouse. Besides, it's cute, and it was only ten dollars!