i came to US year ago- when i was 13, will i speak with accent in like 10 years?

Answer 1

Everybody is different but chances are, you will pick up the American accent.

Answer 2

Don't be ashamed of your accent. There is nothing wrong with it and it doesn't make you any less of a person. Since you are still young, your accent should go away by the time you are an adult. Just be sure to ask your American friends to help you with your pronunciation and speech. The more you hang around Americans, the more you will speak like them.

Answer 3

A little bit. My older sister was the same age when she came here, about 20 years ago, and she barely has an accent.

Answer 4

why obesess over getting an american accent these people have an accent also. english is supposed to be spoken like the british speak, americans also have an accent. so if you want start talking like the british from the start if you want a proper accent

Answer 5

This is due to your bone conduction in your hearing.

As you hear, learn and practice a language, your brain will make sure you reproduce the sound absolutely perfect.

Unfortunately, the brain relays on the sound it hear (when you speak) to make corrections or adjustments.

Brain hear other people's sound different from hear your own sound. Other's sound come straight from air to your ear and bone conduction sound path.

But, your own sound took a loop back from bone path only.

Therefore, the sound other people hear you said is from your vocal cord to the air then to their ear.

The same sound your brain hear you said, come from the bone conduction path, then your inner ear (bone conduction travel faster than air, that's why our brain always hear our own voice through bone conduction path, not air).

The problem is, bone density due to the age, can produce different filtering effect to the sound it pass through.

Therefore, when you say something, it pass through your bone, by the time, inner ear gets it, it already have some filtering on the sound, therefor the sound you hear is different from other people hear.

The foreign accent is come from this filter. Because your filter give your brain the perfect English you intended to speak, but the unfiltered sound differ from the filtered one contains the accent.

For a person speak with accent, he will tell you he is speaking the perfect English just like yours, but he can only hear what you hear if he play back his voice from a tape recorder.

By then, he as absolutely no control. Because his brain can never get the chance to make adjustment to get rid of the accent.

Only younger person can have filter free feedback to the brain, thus, they will speak the true accent free language.

Answer 6

My son came with us here to Canada when he was 12 which was 20 years ago and still has his English accent so I guess you are stuck with yours too.

Answer 7

You already "sound" American, from the way you write: small "i" for the first person singular, no determinant before the nouns "year" and "accent" and the unnecessary presence of the word "like".
Have fun torturing the English language, you, little American-to-be boy (or girl, I'm not sure...).

Answer 8

My mother never lost her English accent after 40 years here.

Answer 9

probably look at Arnold Schwarzenegger, yakov shmirnoff etc.. they still have their accents and they have been here many years. I know a guy who came here from Mexico when he was a teenager he is 50 now and he still has a Mexican accent

Answer 10

Maybe, but don't worry. We all came from somewhere else, and most of us have some type of accents -- either regional of foreign. So don't be self concious and let your actions speak louder than your words.

Answer 11

probably not... I livved for 7 years in america and after like 2 years, my accent was all gone (except for my mom's accent)