People from Miami sound like foreign tourists? (how much, school)

[max.b]

Originally Posted by karstic

Yes, he should visit New York and Alabama, also tourists.
Anyways, she's hot.

Tourists from what country sound like they are native New Yorkers? (Trump actually lost much of his New York accent, in my opinion)

[UrbanCrossroads]

She definitely has an accent, but to me it doesn't sound like the typical "Miami accent" found among some Cuban-Americans (aka English spoken with a bit of Cuban intonation). But yeah, it's hard to believe that she was born in the US. She definitely sounds like she was born abroad and learned English later.

I watched her in another interview, and her pronunciation of certain words sounded weird:
"othletic" instead of "athletic"
"casta rica" instead of "costa rica"
"unfortunaly" instead of "unfortunately"
"absoluly" instead of "absolutely"
"homasexuals" instead of "homosexuals"

[max.b]

Originally Posted by UrbanCrossroads

She definitely has an accent, but to me it doesn't sound like the typical "Miami accent" found among some Cuban-Americans (aka English spoken with a bit of Cuban intonation). But yeah, it's hard to believe that she was born in the US. She definitely sounds like she was born abroad and learned English later.

I watched her in another interview, and her pronunciation of certain words sounded weird:
"othletic" instead of "athletic"
"casta rica" instead of "costa rica"
"unfortunaly" instead of "unfortunately"
"absoluly" instead of "absolutely"
"homasexuals" instead of "homosexuals"

Unfortunally, Casta Rica homasexuals are absoluly not othletic!

[UrbanCrossroads]

Originally Posted by max.b

unfortunally, casta rica homasexuals are absoluly not othletic!

lmao

[karstic]

Originally Posted by max.b

Tourists from what country sound like they are native New Yorkers? (Trump actually lost much of his New York accent, in my opinion)

Only when seriously drunk.

[shamrockfisher]

Originally Posted by max.b

I just saw some woman on Fox (Maria Elvira Salazar). She sounded like a tourist visiting USA, but to my surprise she said she was born and raised in Miami. Is this normal?

Actually, she sounds much better than most with a "Miami" accent. It gets much more dramatically sounding english with a spanish accent for many Miami residents, including those born and raised in Miami.

[ruski]

Originally Posted by max.b

I just saw some woman on Fox (Maria Elvira Salazar). She sounded like a tourist visiting USA, but to my surprise she said she was born and raised in Miami. Is this normal?

Supposably...

[karstic]

She speaks a beautiful and dramatical Cuban Spanish with no trace of Miami.
She's fully bilingual.
All bilinguals, trilinguals, etc, have accents.
Many people that speak several languages develop an accent in their own mother tongue.
Have you heard the Brooklyn Accent? They sound like drunk Calabrese speaking English.
Have you heard a group of people kvetching?

[southwest88]

Originally Posted by karstic

She speaks a beautiful and dramatical Cuban Spanish with no trace of Miami.
She's fully bilingual.
All bilinguals, trilinguals, etc, have accents.
Many people that speak several languages develop an accent in their own mother tongue.
Have you heard the Brooklyn Accent? They sound like drunk Calabrese speaking English.
Have you heard a group of people kvetching?

Yah, but everybody has an accent. It may be a normal accent (usually, the accent as spoken by the majority of those language speakers, or @ least the preferred accent, the one aspired to). It may be an accent that's considered non-standard, like Cockney in UK. But we all learn our first language @ the feet of our parents, teachers, role models, TV & radio & movies -- & DVDs & Internet, I suppose we have to add now.

[karstic]

Miami is, along Quebec, the only bilingual cities in North America, so they have accents different from the rest. I believe that Montreal is also bilingual, not certain. The only city in North America were Spanish is a mainstream, business language.