If i am half Irish, will i start to get an Irish accent when i move there?

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â™¥ gÓ˜m''gÓ˜m â™¥

Yes, ofcourse.
If you live there long enough & interact with irish people then I don't see why not. Especially if you have an irish partner.

Jessica Baybeeh =]x

You are 16 so you definately will not get the Irish accent..[x]

â™¥M.A.Câ™¥ Addict

Oh yes because you are half Irish you will pick it up quick and begin to automatically talking in an Irish accent.
It is in your genes!

Moron.

Irish

No, unfortunetly not I'm afraid to say! But your English accent should become softer over time : )

greenorlagh

You'll be offered one as soon as you get off the boat.

Jenii-Babey

Erm.. You might I am half Irish half American and I moved over here to live with my dad and I have still got an American accent.. I am 15.. But anyways you might and you might not..

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Kfev

Some people acquire a new accent completely when they relocate whiles other hardly do at all.
Some do to a greater or lesser degree.

As others have said your Irish heritage in itself isn't a major detriment factor but most likely one's inherit ear for language/accent/music.

Most likely you'll acquire a 'hybrid' accent after a few years that will sound English to the Irish and Irish to the English, as happened several friends of mine who were like yourself originally from England who settled in Ireland over the years have.

Even people who relocate from region to region hybridise their accents usually unconsciously. It is better not to try too hard as it starts to sound contrived which would be ridiculous.

A strong regional accent isn't necessarily a good thing anyhow.

If you really want to avoid sounding too English then study Irish elocution to acquire the South Dublin RTE broadcast posh type Hibernian- English, which on the whole is the most English-sounding English in Ireland.

Mariella Frostrup, who's from Norway originally, speaks with that sort of accent and can broadcast in England without being thought of as "Irish".

Mrs Edward Cullen x

Well because you are 16, you wont get the Irish accent x

Phillip B

I'm home counties born, bred and accent, but when I've spent even just a week in Rochdale with a group of friends, I've found that I start picking up their accent, etc. It's not a conscious choice for me; it just happens.

It might be related to fitting in, or not standing out so much - you know, tribal/pack behaviour.

So, yes, I believe you will pick up the accent, etc. It will never be 100% unless you decide to practice it. Equally, you could fight it and consciously retain your existing accent.

Although, it's possible my home counties accent isn't as dominant as other regional accents, so submits to them. If you come from one of those regions, then your adoption of an Irish accent might be far more limited.

Andrew W

ye eventually, but it would be a more well spoken kind of irish accent.

xxEllexx

Of course you won't!

My boyfriend has Irish parents but was raised in England until he was 8 or 9.
He's 19 now and still has a really obvious English accent.
He says all the same 'irishy' things that we say "what's the craic!!!" but he's never lost the accent he had as a kid.

You will most likely be no different. I should hope that if I ever moved anywhere else, I would never lose my Irish accent!

xxxx

yumyum

You probably end up sounding english to irish people, and irish to english people.

Orla C

You'll start picking up the accent of where you're living regardless of what your genetic background is.

I've known Polish, Czech and Dutch living in Ireland, and unless they told you, you wouldn't believe they weren't local.

WeenerMan

That all depends on which half of you is Irish, the top half or the bottom half?

Emsey Pop

It really depends on you. I know people that moved to England from Ireland when they were in their twenties, and 30 years later they still have their Irish accent, but if I went down the road 20 miles and stayed there for a few weeks I would go home with a slightly different accent. It just depends. If you want an Irish accent you just start talking like the Irish, or if you want to keep your own you should try practising your old accent

Like a Fox

Accents change for some people, for others they don't, I know people that have lived here most of their lives and their accents are still the same.
It may change slightly in the way you say words or that, but maybe not dramatically. Besides accents are really only mimicry.

K-I =)

Meybe .... , Me sister move to spain when she had 15 years old ( we are from venezuela ) and she speak with venezuelan accept ... , now she is 22 years old and she speak with spain accent but when she want she change the accent to venezuelan accepts , its like when someone change the lenguaje ... , meybe in english happen the same =) ... so you will get the irish accent but you will have english accent ...

jonahbeast

You could probably teach yourself to speak with an Irish accent, but it won't happen naturally. By 16 your speech pattern is set. What is likely is that you will begin picking up Irish expressions, and that will make you sound more Irish, especially to non-Irish people. However, you will retain your English accent unless you conciously try to change your speech. Even if you want to lose the English accent you may not be successful. It's like when foreigners move to England. They can learn to speak English but most retain an accent unless they were very young when they arrived.

precious

yep since u are only 16 years of age,wen u got to college and uni..but then again u might not get the chronic irish accent

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em prob not since the english accent is quite stronger than irish...

Matt, From N Ireland

If you live here long enough you may, but as you are 16 you might still kep your english accent but still have a bit of an irish accent in with that, you will probably use the slang aswell.

Celtic lord

only if u want to yourself

Candy Floss

Get real!!!

If you are young, below 10 years of age then yes you may start to pick up an Irish accent. If you are older, it may be a little more difficult. You will start to pronounce words in the same way but may have an english/irish accent

Katt

I am 5/8 Irish .. my Dad is fully Irish and my Mum is 1/4
All of my Dad's side have Irish accents and when I go over there I tend to pick up little phrases such as "what age are you?" instead of "how old are you?" they always say that!! haha
It doesn't matter if you're Irish or not, if you move over there you could pick up a bit of an accent but you will probably never lose your English accent fully.

pompey know all

you cant be serious???????????????????you are def half irish,i have drink pint after pint of dutch lager but that doesnt inspire me to go get some clogs

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