I am insecure with my chinese accent?

Question

I have just moved to the U.S. about 5 years ago. I know I have a gift of learning new languages, because within the first 2 years, I was out of ESL and onto honors classes. I made a lot of friends, and I was able to get used to the american culture pretty quickly.

But there's just one darn thing that I'm totally insecure about; My accent. It's been holding me back from showing people who I truly am. People tell me that they don't notice I have an accent(the ones that I'm close to), that is because when I'm comfortable, my accent doesn't come out. It's very settle. And the words that I do have a hard time pronuncing are very far between.

Whenever I meet new people, is when I'm the most insecure. But the more insecure i get, the more my accent comes out, which I will eventually notice and starts to hide myself in a little ball of mass insecurities.

and tomorrow i will be hanging out with all new people in my church at a picnic, and i go to a white church X.X

Answer 1

i personally like foreign girls in your case that can speak english with there accent it s**y to me

call me ;]

Answer 2

goood luck on church!

i don't think you can fix yourself, i think time will eventually handle itself, you'll grow out of the shyness.

and you'll start loosing the accent.

but try to be more relax! just have fun and forget about your insecurities.  

Answer 3

I wouldnt worry about it,if you worry aboutit or make it obvious then they may look at you differently but for the most part they maight jsut look at  you normal as long as they can understand you,,good luck and have fun:]

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Answer 4

Hi,

Wow, you've nothing to worry about, you've everything going

for you, brains and being cute. Alot of Americans are attracted

to people with an accent. Being nervous when you meet new

people is very normal. If you don't think about it, it will go

smoothly. Hey, just be yourself, and have fun. Good luck.

Answer 5

don't even THINK about your accent. if you do, it'll actually show. sometimes when you're having fun, it just fades away, so DON'T let it hold you back, and DON'T think about it. and, your accent makes you who you are, so you shouldn't feel so insecure about it. it's part of you, part of your chinese identity. you shouldn't be ashamed of it... what's wrong with it? :)

Answer 6

Tina I'm willing to bet that most people do not notice your accent either and that those who do think it is cute.  My daughter in law is from Taiwan and we love her accent.  Like you said a lot of your close friends do not even notice it.  Proximaty can do this, I have a physical disability as I walk different from others.  But all my friends forget about it when we are together and once a friend actually said to me when we were painting at our house, "when we get back walk in with a limp and tell the girls you fell".  I looked at him and we laughed pretty loud together.  That was many moons ago but we continue to laugh about it often when we are talking about the days of old.  Have some self-confidence in yourself tomorrow and everything will be fine.  Best of luck.

Answer 7

dont worry about how u sound, u will do fine.

hope i helped