Mainly because I would enunciate (because I wanted to make sure people understood me) and used advanced language (because I read a lot as a kid)
I share these traits with you. When I did grad school these were viewed as positive by many of the ESL international students I worked with. One person told me I spoke like a news anchor.
People used to say like I talked like everyone else was stupid
Mainly because I would enunciate (because I wanted to make sure people understood me) and used advanced language (because I read a lot as a kid)
This got me picked on a lot, so I basically studied how to talk "normal" by watching a lot of TV
And now people say I don't sound like a Puerto Rican so I learned I could never win
❤️❤️❤️ same, all of these.
I share these traits with you. When I did grad school these were viewed as positive by many of the ESL international students I worked with. One person told me I spoke like a news anchor.