My Languages

In my family, we do not really have any sort of second language; we all speak english. A lot of people outside of the city of Chicago say that we have a Chicago accent. I think that when you live in a place for a long time, you can develop an accent and you begin to speak like the people around you. I used to live in Texas so we had a bit of a southern accent and said words like "y'all". When I moved from Texas to Chicago, many people asked me where I was from but it didn't seem to me as if I had an accent. Now that I live here in Chicago, people say I have a Chicago accent. My best friend from Kansas always laughs at me when I say "Wisconsin". She thinks that it sounds like I am saying Wiscawnsin, whereas she pronounces the "O". Also when I went to visit my cousin in Iowa, many of the people there guessed that I was from Chicago by the way that I spoke.