Comments by "Peter Ford" (@peterford9369) on "Caller: If You're Argentinean, Why Don't You Have an Accent?" video.

  1. Hey David, You're like me, I'm German born but my mom and I came to the US when I was 4. But my adopted dad is a born American. And he told my mom to speak only English to me. So my memory actually starts at first grade at 5 . So I speak 0 German. But, I have an ear for dialect and when I speak a word of a language that I learn, I can say it with the dialect. Makes it nice to pronounce a word in another language. Sad though that I speak no German cause all my mother's family live there and I can't call and speak to them, unless they know decent English. And unfortunately, I'm not wealthy enough to travel abroad periodically. So though I have uncle's and family in Germany I've never seen them. Except my grandmother that did visit us here, in Tampa FL, as well. A few times. A bit sad sometimes. Never to see people again that knew you as a baby and young boy. 😥
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  2.  @lydias2012  Oh yes, I agree. I don't blame him. It was easier to learn English well, instead of having 2 totally different languages in your head when you're growing up. And being a mediocre student anyway, was probably the best thing to do. My son ended up marrying a girl that had an Italian dad and a mother that though she was America born, lived in Italy with obviously her Italian husband. So when our grandkids were born, my " daughter in law", would constantly shove the Italian words for everything at them. I felt the same way my dad did too. But never pressed it. They speak English well enough now as teenagers, and don't know how much Italian they understand, but it's good to have even the basics in your brain. Though all the relatives on her side speak English just fine, they'll have the fundamentals in them should they want to or need to speak it. I guess I do wish I'd have either been older, when we came here, or mom would have kept me a little up on German. It would have been nice to have been in a little with my family in Germany. Though other countries do teach English to their students, because the US is so involved in other countries. Ha.
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