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Living in a Multilingual World

The one about accents

All the “Irish” people/Where do they all come from? Photo by Massimo Virgilio on Unsplash

When I arrived in the UK almost twenty-five years ago to the day, I not only brought a heavy suitcase with me but also an American accent. The result of having accessed half a dozen US-teacher-led postgraduate courses back in Havana (starting when I was still an…