Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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course, we have accents. I-I call that an accent. Probably 
is a dialect. Is that the right word, I think?
INTERVIEWER:
Do you, do you notice accents in the other, 
in other parts of the country?
WOMAN:
Yeah, that’s the, that’s the joy of the United 
States, is that, you know, people don’t talk the same. Uh, 
you know, it all, it’s all diff erent. I mean, we have the 
mountains and the water and the valleys in between. I 
mean, it’s like we have everything—like many diff erent 
countries all in, all in one, 
[
and I do 
]
. . . 
MAN:
What is?
WOMAN:
Th
e United States. I do en—, so I do enjoy listen-
ing to other people talk, like, I mean, if you talk to any-
body from the 
Bronx
, you defi nitely know they’re from 
the Bronx, uh . . .
MAN:
Boston.
WOMAN:
Boston—you defi nitely know they’re from . . .
MAN:
Boston.
WOMAN:
Boston. So that’s the joy of being in the United 
States and traveling in the United States. You get many 
more cultures in a much more contained free area where 
you can just go to easily. You don’t even need a passport.
MAN:
And some people look at you funny.
WOMAN:
Yeah.
3. A FRENCH-CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE
WOMAN:
Well, I haven’t been exposed much to Texas and 
Deep South accents, but the few times that I have heard 

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