Um, yeah, okay...

[serendipity8791]

I have just been asked by one of the new girls, who was doing some listening in on my calls as part of her training, whether I was French Canadian, or English (as in British), because I was very fluent in both, and she said I speak English with a slightly British accent. I went, like what?!

Come to think of it, I was watching a British movie, the other night, and it took me forever to realise it was British... I could NOT hear the accent...

I guess I have been watching too much LOTR or LOTR-actor related stuff...

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[uluviel.livejournal.com]

Hi! I just friended you back :)

I tend to pick up accents too. When I watch too much LOTR or when I listen to Harry Potter audiobooks, I'll speak "British" for a while. Or when I get a new Buffy DVD set, and watch 20-something eps of Buffy in a week, I'll speak like the Scooby gang for a while.

Is your primary language French or English?

[serendipity8791.livejournal.com]

It's actually French, but I adopted English as the language I use the most, way back when I was 17 or so. Wheee for adopted languages! Yeah, but I love accents. I actually picked up a Saguenay accent when I shared my apartment with a friend from Jonquiere. She thought her Montreal accent was improving, when, really, I was meeting her halfway. It was pretty funny.

I don't think I sound British, though.

[uluviel.livejournal.com]

I speak French as a primary language as well. In my everyday life it's almost always French (you don't get many opportunities to speak English in smaller towns). But during my leisure time (reading, writing, online stuff, TV, etc.) it's always almost in English. The only exception is music, where I listen to a lot of music with French lyrics.

[serendipity8791.livejournal.com]

Aye, I've lived in Knowlton for five months, and it was such a bilingual town that, though it be small, you can basically speak French or English and people will reply to you in whichever they feel more comfortable, without making a case of which language you're addressing them in. But I was brought up in Beauharnois, where 99% of the population is French-speaking, which included my family.

My work is about 70% done in English, and everything from my hobbies to my religious practices, or just about is done in English as well, only with my mom and some of my friends I speak French. And sometimes Frenglish.