Word: accentsã
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...author of five collections of poetry and five books—including “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents??—Alvarez related the factors that shaped her evolution as an writer. She described her family fleeing from the dictatorial regime in their native Dominican Republic, as well as the subsequent struggle to find her identity and voice as a young immigrant to America...
...Shanghai to the U.S. when she was four and returned at 19, found herself in similar situations. She’s right, of course. Most of the Chinese I’ve met that were born or raised in the U.S. seem to—despite our sometimes atrocious accents??speak enough of the language to get around...
...despite his obnoxious manner.Miller provides lively choreography for his all-male crew of sailors, who start off the act with their strong voices and are onstage for most of the show. Members of the ensemble manage to stand out—some as particularly graceful dancers, others with British accents??while maintaining a general demeanor that’s both tough and flirtatious.With such a strong first act, Act II is a bit of an anticlimax, except for the trio “Nevermind the Why and Wherefore.” Polk, Hill, and Forbess match each other...
...Go map. When I stood (with a high school friend who had popped over from Oxford) at the gates of Trinity College for a “backpackers’ pub crawl” I heard the gorgeous sound of travel stories being exchanged in various accents??“We’ve just been in London,” “We’re heading to Amsterdam,” “Have you seen the Irish countryside?” It made me want to keep travelling forever...
...though I was never there to see it anyway, and have to content myself with reading about the old neighborhood in residents’ memoirs and undergraduate social science theses. The only evidence of the old neighborhood that I can still hear is in their accents??the parents’ are strong and at times indecipherable to the untrained ear, but their children’s speech has lost its Irish edges, refined by television, which I guess is progress but does not feel like...