On Apr 5, 11:25 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 04/05/2011 08:37 AM, The 2-Belo wrote:
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> > We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Declan Murphy
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> >> On Apr 3, 10:17?am, CL<flot...@yahoo.com>  wrote:
> >>> On 04/02/2011 06:32 PM, Declan Murphy wrote:
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> >>>> This was kind of difficult. I hadn't been "on video" while on radio
> >>>> before. Haven't received any training and lack experience, and
> >>>> unfortunately it shows.
> >>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uih0zQrryEI
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> >>> My daughter wanted to know what language that person was speaking. ?She
> >>> has no problem with television British, Irish, or Scots accents as she's
> >>> a big Dr. Who, Sarah Jane, and Katy Brand fan, but there was just
> >>> something in all of that that kept her language switch from working.
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> >> I don't really know what I sound like. Apparently my accent drifts
> >> around depending on who I was last speaking to etc. An Italian
> >> customer recently interrupted me to say "I studied British in London
> >> Mr Murphy, and cannot understand your American accent", which made the
> >> American customers in the room break out in laughter.
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> > Yeah, this happens to me as well. I spent two weeks in New Hampshire back in
> > 2007 for technical training, and about 10 days into it I had called my mother in
> > Maryland -- she immediately asked why the hell I was "talking strangely".
> > Apparently, I had paaked the caa in the yaad too many times.
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> Being born in New England and having two parents who were Bostonians on
> a professional level their entire lives, I can slip in and out of that
> accent quite without thinking.  But, my regular spoken English is a
> combination of New England and Midwestern.  People often ask me what
> part of Toronto I grew up in.

So what part of Toronto did you grow up in then?

Apparently (when speaking English) I have trouble pronouncing the
vowel O. Most of my work over the years has been conducted in
Japanese, and when I am using English, its mostly to read or write.
Unfortunately I don't have any recordings of my voice from before I
came to Japan to compare/contrast with.