All my friends had grandparents who had accents. I thought all grandparents were supposed to have accents. My friends were all second-generation, as I was.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.
I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.
I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.
When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.
I'm the only one in my family with an American accent.
My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.