Spainglorious blog #4 ¨You are American?¨
Well damn, its happened. The question I was dreading this whole time in Spain. Well it happens nearly everyday actuallly. I start speaking Spanish with a friend and I get the question in broken English to match my broken Spanish ¨you are American?¨ I usually answer by rolling my eyes and shrugging (an involuntary reaction that I was made aware of by one of my new found friends from my trip). Now I am not surprised. My accent (in any language) takes the shape of whoever I am around. My word usage is mixed to the point that even when I speak my native language of English people are confused as to where I am from because I speak in nonspecific dialect with a myriad of words native to countries that I am not in. I´m not upset that people think I am American. I can admit that I am not fluent in Spanish and that really I haven´t even been trying since I´ve been here but I´m not sure that I want people to automatically assume that I´m American….which I´m not. I´m a ¨British¨ tck with an American accent….sometimes 
I as born in London, England to children of Jamaican immigrants. I have lived in England, Venezuela, USA, and China. I am currently a university student stateside.
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3 Comments to “Spainglorious blog #4 ¨You are American?¨”
November 25th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I have the same quirk with my speech. I adapt to whoever is around, which is quite funny at times. I even do it with my dog, grunts and whines accompany body language instead of real words. Some laugh at me for it, but darned if that dog doesn’t listen to me.
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December 17th, 2008 at 3:22 am
meh, I used to be thought of as Canadian or French of all things…anymore American is too dangerous the places I’ve been.
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December 17th, 2008 at 3:24 am
I really need to learn to finish a thought….like everyone else, I can’t spell/speak my own language properly let alone the others I’ve been exposed to. I still fumble with: Pop, Soda, Coka.
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