I am not a perfect English speaker as my mother tongue is Nepali. In my life I know or rather know a little bit about variation of Englishes in the world but the English I mostly use is Nepali English and American English. Nepali English is basically the English language derived from British English, however the tone and way of using English in Nepal is different.
Currently, I am studying in the USA and people here use a different kind of English that I am not used to. American English is actually a lot more different than I imagined back home. Almost all the accent in every word and sentences are different and I even noticed some difference in spelling here. I study in ULM (University of Louisiana at Monroe) which is located in southern part …show more content…
The accent is almost British mixed with our tone, so in a weird way during the time the spoken English in Nepal has entirely evolved. I would speak fluently and confidently there and everyone would understand the message I was trying to convey. I usually use to add “na” or other tone of Nepali at the end of the sentence to make it more reveling to the audience as most of them would be Nepali. No matter how good I was at speaking English even if it was a Nepali version of it, I could not express my feeling as well as I would in Nepali. Writing was almost same there as in the USA so I am more comfortably writing here too but some accents and spelling are not …show more content…
As I was a naïve child back then, I thought,” I must have made a mistake, I spelled color differently in the letter I was given by my teacher as home work on ‘Letter to your friend abroad’”. Then the next day I got my exercise book back where I had written the sample letter. There I saw the word color which I spelled as “colour” was not marked by my teacher. I got anxious and after the class was over I went to my teacher and asked him that if the spelling of the world color was either “color” or “colour” and I told him about the spelling in the subtitle of the movie. He smiled a told me,” Son, we have adopted the British writing so the spelling of color is c.o.l.o.u.r and “c.o.l.o.r” is used as spelling for color in the USA”. He had to put it in a long sentence as I could not understand it being a child, but after his explanation I perfectly understood the difference in English. After this incident I watched more American movies and again noticed the difference in accent particularly in some world like ask, fast, stop, task, laugh, bath, example, command, grass, last and many more. Some time I would try these accent on my friends in Nepal and they would laugh and react in such a manner that I was out of my mind. But eventually everybody understood the difference in American and Nepali/British accent as American movies dominated the
Currently, I am studying in the USA and people here use a different kind of English that I am not used to. American English is actually a lot more different than I imagined back home. Almost all the accent in every word and sentences are different and I even noticed some difference in spelling here. I study in ULM (University of Louisiana at Monroe) which is located in southern part …show more content…
The accent is almost British mixed with our tone, so in a weird way during the time the spoken English in Nepal has entirely evolved. I would speak fluently and confidently there and everyone would understand the message I was trying to convey. I usually use to add “na” or other tone of Nepali at the end of the sentence to make it more reveling to the audience as most of them would be Nepali. No matter how good I was at speaking English even if it was a Nepali version of it, I could not express my feeling as well as I would in Nepali. Writing was almost same there as in the USA so I am more comfortably writing here too but some accents and spelling are not …show more content…
As I was a naïve child back then, I thought,” I must have made a mistake, I spelled color differently in the letter I was given by my teacher as home work on ‘Letter to your friend abroad’”. Then the next day I got my exercise book back where I had written the sample letter. There I saw the word color which I spelled as “colour” was not marked by my teacher. I got anxious and after the class was over I went to my teacher and asked him that if the spelling of the world color was either “color” or “colour” and I told him about the spelling in the subtitle of the movie. He smiled a told me,” Son, we have adopted the British writing so the spelling of color is c.o.l.o.u.r and “c.o.l.o.r” is used as spelling for color in the USA”. He had to put it in a long sentence as I could not understand it being a child, but after his explanation I perfectly understood the difference in English. After this incident I watched more American movies and again noticed the difference in accent particularly in some world like ask, fast, stop, task, laugh, bath, example, command, grass, last and many more. Some time I would try these accent on my friends in Nepal and they would laugh and react in such a manner that I was out of my mind. But eventually everybody understood the difference in American and Nepali/British accent as American movies dominated the