Where do accents come from?
Brains On! Science podcast for kids
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Can You Roll Your Eyes?
As soon as we're old enough to go to school, we want to fit in with the greek and part of that is talking like everyone else. Overtime your accent will become similar to theirs. If you learn a language later in life, it's harder for you to shed the sounds you grew up with so you may still have an accent. Sosha can roll her eyes archly because she knows both polish and french pretty well.
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