I Want To Sound Like Heidi Klum Analysis

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In the article of "I want to sound like Heidi Klum," there are several perspectives have been mentioned in the article. The most interesting points to me were that most of the non-native speakers do not want to sound like native speakers from America because they found it is not exactly as intelligible as to them. Also, the idea of students prefers to have an accent of non-native speakers to sound like them which is makes me supersized, the non-native speaker 's view. In my opinion, I agree with these perspectives for several reasons and disagree with the idea of having native 's English speakers accent. First of all, like me as non-native speakers, I do not see that all native speakers are intelligible to sound like their accent. For …show more content…
According to Sung article of Sound Like Heidi Klum, the mad workshop that fifteen students were invited and asked how they want to sound like in English. So, Four of these group want just to speak English in an understandable accent where the majority of the students said that they want to sound like native speakers. Thus, it is obvious that most of the non-native speakers want to have the native speakers accent so that the native speakers can understand them. If I would choose which accent I want to speak with in another language that it is not my mother tongue, I would rather choose to speak like native speakers. Since the native speakers of the language that I want to learn can understand me easily. Also, that may help to improve my grammar and the perfect way of pronouncing words. On the other hand, most of the student answered the question of which model of the English they want to learn by having one or more same names of native speakers. In the first, I thought that most non-native speakers would say that they want just to speak understandable English, but it seems that the students would rather have someone 's accent to sound as perfect as they can. I agree with this because everyone wants to feel complete in speaking any language, so it is not weird anymore that non-native speakers have one or more people in their mind that …show more content…
Four of the students that they were in the workshop want to sound like non-native speakers in their society. I believe that they choose them because they can understand them easily. For example, the non-native speakers almost all the time wants to feel that they can understand the language that he/she is learning, so they have the trust of talking to other people. Since they know individuals who speak in the deferent language in their society quickly, so they have no problem to sound like them. According to the students prefer, some of them want to look like the guy in the news the in

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