Emphasis on Urdu at our homes

[Star786]

Re: Emphasis on Urdu at our homes

Hi Red Velvet

Just to provide some insight, kids growing up outside have a gora accent because English is their first language, not Urdu. It doesn’t matter if their parents speak Urdu at home…they hear English most of the time outside so they can’t help but have an accent. I agree, it is bad if a “Pakistani” kid doesn’t know Urdu…language is the main connection to your culture.

It’s just like how children in Pakistan go to British and American schools from childhood but they still have accents. They can speak English fluently but many of them have a strong Pakistani accent while speaking in English. Their professors speak English fluently and some profs are even from outside, but still they can’t grasp the authentic English accent. (no offence to anyone)

One remedy for kids growing up outside is to visit Pakistan frequently, every couple of years maybe. That is the only way they can get the authentic accent, when they are literally surrounded by Urdu.

@redvelvet

I have seen several people of my generation and younger…who were born and raised in the US and have this funky Urdu with an American twang to it…and I don’t understand the phenomenon. I’ve read that one of the things your accent is based upon is what you’re exposed to. So when you grown up hearing your parents speak Urdu with the proper accent…how does that explain kids who can’t speak the language and when they do attempt it…their accents are very much like the Angrezi Desis that are sometimes seen in dramas and Bollywood movies with that really exaggerated gora accent. ***Yes, I know that not everyone is like this. But I don’t understand the ones that are. And I’m probably going to get anday and tamatar hurled at me for this post.