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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 15:26

Interesting thread. In Geneva, there is a big international community and most of the people who go through the international school system end up with a very "offshore" accent. I think it's the same issue in Dubai...I wouldn't be too worried. I would only start to worry if the teacher was making grammatical /sytax errors or was clearly not a native speaker. Many Indians speak English as a first language

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 15:19

Interesting discussion, that accents make the person. I had seen Cheryl Cole & Colleen Rooney in magazines for a long time, finally hearing them speak on television really surprised me and for some reason IMO, their voices don't fit their image and my perception of both has changed!

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 15:10

If accent is really an issue in time when child is older then address the problem with elocution classes /Drama classes. Many people have strong accents and slang that would be worth improving on in some peoples eyes. The child will not pick up the teachers accent unless the child is listening to the same accent for all her education. See thread about accent softening posted a few weeks ago.

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:59

Both of my nieces who live here speak with strong English accents - then their accents change to Canadian when they are home for the summer.

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:48

Would you be worried if your child's teacher had an Indian accent? (No offense against Indians). She is in KG1. She is in a really nice school, I really don't want to change school because of the teacher. I don't want her to change class either because she loves her friends. I don't know what to do!!! She is the type who takes a long time to settle. What would you do? edited by tahm563 on 30/01/2011 I wouldn't be happy either, but putting all the other aspects into consideration I would not have her change class but maybe send her to a speech therapist once a week in the afternoon to keep a good pronounciation

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:48

Would you be worried if your child's teacher had an Indian accent? (No offense against Indians). She is in KG1. She is in a really nice school, I really don't want to change school because of the teacher. I don't want her to change class either because she loves her friends. I don't know what to do!!! She is the type who takes a long time to settle. What would you do? edited by tahm563 on 30/01/2011 I wouldn't be happy either, but putting all the other aspects into consideration I would not have her change class but maybe send her to a speech therapist once a week in the afternoon to keep a good pronounciation

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:44

I don't think people are saying their own accent is better than another, its just they don't want to hear certain accents coming from their child's mouth and that's a reasonable enough view. The only accent I would like my child to speak is my own or my husbands. With respect, I think any Dubai inhabitant who has strong feelings about their child only speaking with its parents' accent of origin has probably chosen a bad spot to live! And I do think some people are saying 'some accents are better than others' - there have certainly been joky threads in the past by, say, Austrialians, jokingly complaining about their child picking up an English accent at school, but none of them seemed to be considering it a disaster, or wondering if some kind of intervention were necessary...

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:38

if you go to a different province in Canada etc. Really, SR? I think we all have the same accent from Ontario west and east of Ontario is where is starts to differ; then you can start telling where someone is from. well maybe the western provinces. I find those in Ontario sound a little different. And yes definitely the maritime provinces.

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:34

we say aitch but the same debate can be said about those that say zee vs zed. Well I see zee vs zed as an American vs rest of world thing. One of my children asked me only a week ago why they pronounce it zee instead of zed. I have no idea, except that at least it makes the alphabet song rhyme!

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:33

if you go to a different province in Canada etc. Really, SR? I think we all have the same accent from Ontario west and east of Ontario is where is starts to differ; then you can start telling where someone is from.

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:32

Incidentally 'haitch' is standard in some dialects of English, in Hiberno-English for one. It was also a trad way of distinguishing between Protestants (traditionally taught to say 'aitch') and Catholics ('haitch') in Northern Ireland. Well, there you go!!! I'll buy that one :-D. LOL

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:30

we say aitch but the same debate can be said about those that say zee vs zed. I agree with custard apple... everyone has accents even if you go to a different province in Canada etc. Every area also has there own ways of saying things. Some of you say pram or trolley and we say stroller or shopping cart.

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:29

I don't think people are saying their own accent is better than another, its just they don't want to hear certain accents coming from their child's mouth and that's a reasonable enough view. The only accent I would like my child to speak is my own or my husbands. And let's not start on certain body (head) movements......;)

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:29

LOL, no, Australian (though I [i'>was [/i'>born in England, but with Australian parents who were on scholarship there at uni so only temporary). I don't know about the "Haitch / Aitch" issue. Some people here (Australia) say that pronouncing it "haitch" is a Catholic phenomenon. Others say it is a QLD thing. Still others say it is a city vs country difference. I am originally from NSW and certainly did not notice it there on such a broad scale as up here in Brisbane. But then we were on the north shore in Sydney so maybe that made a difference, I don't know. In my opinion, kids are parrots. They pick up accents very quickly, but lose them pretty quickly too. As an 11 year old, my family travelled for several months through the UK and on the continent. I was told I came home with an English accent, but I'm sure it was beaten out of me at school by the local kids before too long. (just joking about the "beaten" bit ;-))

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:25

I love the way some people are claiming not to have any accent - [i'>everyone[/i'> has an accent! It's just that people who speak in a way that approximates the 'standard' for their language and country hear themselves as the 'norm' and other people - like the OP's child's teacher - as 'deviating' from that norm, and therefore wrong. The implicit question no one is actually making explicit is that some accents (within English for the sake of clarity) are comparatively 'prestigious' and some are not (and presumably the OP considers the teacher in question has one of the latter, given that it doesn't seem to be a question of lack of fluency). I suppose it comes down to whether the OP's child picking up a non-prestige accent is more important to the OP than her general happiness with the class. Incidentally 'haitch' is standard in some dialects of English, in Hiberno-English for one. It was also a trad way of distinguishing between Protestants (traditionally taught to say 'aitch') and Catholics ('haitch') in Northern Ireland.

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:04

Buymeapony, Dont suppose you are English????

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:02

I wouldn't have any problems with Teacher's accents either, as long as my child understood them, that would be all that mattered.

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 14:00

I presume the Indian teacher would be educated and have a good vocabulary so I don’t see a problem with an accent. What I do have a problem with is Filipinos that can’t read, write or speak properly teaching children

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 13:59

we say "h" = sounds like (pulling my ear) eight ... eighs (does that make sense?) LOL where does everythink come from? i hate it when people end their words with a "k". signink off now :\:

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 13:58

Lol I say Haitch and so does DS. I wouldn't have a problem with the accent as long as she is speaking proper English. I have some issues with my son's teacher's 'Americanisms' (Brit School). Sweets are now candy, biscuits are now cookies and holidays are vacations etc - it's funny now but I am going to have to knock it out of him before we go back to Scotland!

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 13:56

The accent will not stick. As a child I moved around and adopted the accent that I was surrounded with in each school. The one that stuck with me into adulthood is the one that I picked up at secondary school, where I was in one place for 5 years. Even now as an adult I find myself dropping consonants and using various bits of slang if I have spent a lot of time with students who speak that way! (I am a teacher)

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 13:51

h=aitch

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 13:49

i wouldnt mind a teacher not being native english speaker, as long as they spoke fluent english without a thick accent brought on from their 1st language. i think a lot of people brought up here in dubai could qualify well, simply because many speak excellent english but without an accent you can actualy identify. if my kid came home sounding like indian/filipino/arabic/russian, etc or mispronouncing words because of a teacher's not good enough english, i would surely not be happy about it.

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 13:48

I think it should only be your concern if it is impacting the learning of your child. My DS is 3 and only really started talking this past month and while we were home visiting DH's family they were saying he sounded like their local natives. We think its cute though but just because he talks that way now doesn't mean it will stay. Plus have you ever looked back at how you talk when you're in certain places? DH's maritime accent comes out anytime he visits back home. out of curiousity how do all of you pronounce 'h'

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 13:41

@ BuyMeAPony.... LOL that "H" thing drives me insane and I have heard it so many times on the radio including Business B'fast radio etc., I wouldn't know how Aussies pronounce it but I think the "haitch" pronounciation is not typically British although several Brits are now using it. Arghhhhh......;) <em>edited by KCQ on 30/01/2011</em>

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 13:40

I have no problem with any type of English-language accent, as long as it is from a native speaker. The strongest I ever heard was from someone from Trinidad. I could hardly understand a word he was saying, but I still wouldn't mind if my daughter had a teacher from Trinidad. English is spoken in many different ways. What I would not like, however, is my DD having a class teacher whose first language is not English.

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 13:39

My little one has a fillipino twang thanks to his TA

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 13:35

next year her teacher could have a heavy German Accent, and the next a Russian accent,, what will you do? I have met many expat kids whose accent I absolutely cannot place as they have been exposed to many. I certainly would not worry about it. You can always correct the diction if necessary :)

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 13:26

My daughter sometimes says things in an Indian accent, a Kiwi accent or an American accent...and she is English. I think its hilarious and just part of the multi-cultural place we live in. So she has the Expat accent then? yep thats the one. Bit like me...I am English but I have no particular accent Same here - was in the UK years ago and was accused of having an expat accent!!!

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Latest post on 30 January 2011 - 13:22

My daughter sometimes says things in an Indian accent, a Kiwi accent or an American accent...and she is English. I think its hilarious and just part of the multi-cultural place we live in. So she has the Expat accent then? yep thats the one. Bit like me...I am English but I have no particular accent

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