This is a very personal story, and so I hope you find it helpful for you to know a little bit more about my childhood. My grandmother passed away in India, and the news of her death was a big deal not just to us, but to many people in our family in India. Everyone was affected by her death. She was so special to everyone, and I didn’t realize how much she meant to me until the day I left India.
I was born in the United States, but I moved back to India when I was six years old, and all of a sudden there was something that was missing. I was always very attached to my British accent, but it was no longer there. I was no longer British, and so I had to start over. But I didn’t really know what that was.
While it’s always tough to move back to the country from a country where everyone speaks with a British accent, here’s the thing: It’s not just the accent, it’s also the way everything is presented.
I dont find this to be an issue for a lot of people. I dont find people who cant understand my accent to be very rude. Its just something that is hard to overcome after getting back in the country. For those people, it may be a little awkward to start talking about how much you love your accent, but its not like that is a bad thing. It is a very unique part of your identity. If you dont like it, you can change it.
So, what I mean is, if I wanted to change my accent, I could. I dont know how that would happen though. If I want to change my accent, you have to be willing to work with me and accept my way. If you dont want to change your accent then you can’t possibly change it.
You might be surprised to learn that you actually can change your accent. I remember in the States when I was young, I was always surprised that even at this young age I was able to change so much without even knowing it. I mean, this isnt the first time I have heard of someone changing their accent. But, it was not in the sense that everyone thought they could change their accent.
I got my first experience in that here (in India) when I was about 5 or 6. My teacher was a little bit older then me but I was still his student. I was studying at a school that was not very well known in the country. They told me that I could learn Hindi if I studied well and that I could learn English if I studied well. I was studying very hard and I was very confident of my knowledge of Hindi and English.
In India, there were few schools that was willing to accept Indian students and I was one of those students. In India, in the 1970s and 80s, there were only about 2 to 4,000 schools in the country with an Indian girl education. I was accepted by a school in my hometown which was about 500 kilometers from my school and I was taught by a girl named Madhuri.
Madhuri was a very beautiful girl and she was the school principal at that time. She was also my first teacher who talked to me in English. She was very smart and taught me the basics of English because I was a very poor student. She was very nice to me and I could remember her words very well.
In my childhood, Hindi was my first language and English my second. Madhuri taught me all the English words we had to know to get through exams, and she was the first person in the world to tell me I sounded American. She was a very nice person and I always remember her very much.
