where is my accent from? as a kid, i lived with my parents in washington, dc
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...but I was too young for getting a driver’s license (even at Washington, D.C.!), so I had to satisfy
my passions using smaller vehicles
Sixty years ago, many things in the US were just like they are today. But in certain respects
it was a very different America…
Norway was fun, and after a while I be-came a fluent Norwegian speaker☺, but my English completely evaporated from my head!☹
After 5 years in Norway, we moved to Poland. After a short time, my Norwegian was gone! ☹ In Poland I lived for almost 30 years, and I got all my education. At high school I started re-learning English. But for an adult it is almost impossible to get rid of a foreign accent! At such age, it is already “firmly embedded” in one’s head. Only children can easily pick up an accent that other people speak with.
In Washington area, I lived only some 3 miles from the last home my parents were renting before we left the US – funny, isn’t it?
Here is where I worked for 12 years before I came to OSU: National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST), Center for Neutron Research
I still do my research at NIST as an “external collaborator”, and this is one of the instruments I use: