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Sunday, June 24, 2012

English Variations Mispronunciation - Sofia Vergara



Sofia Vergara is a Colombian actress and comedian, very well known for her role at Modern Family as Gloria, we can clearly see the mispronunciations of Gloria in the show, this is because of the English Variations, Sofia Vergara as I said is Colombian, therefor she has Spanish as her main language, and English as a second language, so every time she speaks she makes some mispronunciations or changes the words into Spanish words making it confusing for the people who don't know some Spanish.
When we as a class saw the video there were some mispronunciations that we didn't understand but only in English, when she finished some sentences in Spanish or mixed a bit of both, we could understand just fine because we know both Spanish and English, but as we can see in this video, they are having a lot of problem understanding Gloria, creating some issues due to the communication.
Sometimes we can easily identify people who are not native speakers in English because of this mispronunciations. We can see at the end of the video when Gloria yells at them because they were probably making fun of her accent, so she tells them that they try to speak in another language, this making fun of the accents or the English Variations may cause some people to be embarrassed when using them.

1 comment:

  1. José Igancio, I think your reflections and what you've done with your blog is very good, but there is some important information you're missing:
    1. Weekly summary on LANGUAGE AND GENDER (content + GENDER ADS activity)
    2. Weekly summary on LITERATURE: TEXTS AND CONTEXT (content + online investigation on Harper Lee's life and times)
    You must UPDATE your blog with this information ASAP. I'll be checking again next week!

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