what's your accent?

Yesterday i was browsing some videos on youtube. And i came across this cute video:

Haha, she's sweet isn't she? Typically american girl next door. But this isn't about the content of the video i want to share with you. It's the accent. American accent.

And you know what? Me and my sister have been talking in english like this, with THICK AMERICAN ACCENT and naturaly cool SLANG phrases, since i couldn't remember when. yea rite..

And maybe you would ask us how we "learned" it? Hmhm.. Nope, we didn't learn it from a course, we've never been to the US, nor studied in expensive International School (our parents couldn't afford something like that, and i think schools like that are only intended for rich people only, who would pay anything just to get their average kid into that not-that-great school actually), or even took a conversation class (and you expect to be fluent in English by attending a conversation class in a pathetic country like Indonesia? LOL!! get real!!) WE DON'T TAKE ENGLISH CLASS. We DON'T do courses, We just don't. Private courses are for those who need studying aid badly. Our parent's said we didn't need any. And they are so right. We're pretty smart actually. Duh!

Probably what have caused us to talk in such a COOL american-english like this is because of many influences we got from wonderful american pop cultures. Watching american TV shows, listening to radio (yea'a, living near singapore pays off you know??), songs, and maybe because we used to listen to lots of people having conversation in English since we were just little kids.. Geez, now i feel thankful for my actually not-that-bad past.

really? is it that cool? what's so great about being able to speak in english anyway? nothing special~

Yep, that's true for some of you, and for people who live in advance countries who have english as their main language. But i've been thinking, i sometimes actually feel a little bit pitty for my friends here who doesn't speak English at all. Or having a very little english fluency, that they actually go to private courses, and ended up with no significant improvement. Or can only speak in english in such a pathetic indonesian-english way. *haha what's an "indonesian-english" anyway?? hmm.. you know :p Moreover, i sometimes feel a little bit sorry for some people who speak english in a poor, thick indonesian intonation and lame accent.. :p Haha, kidding.. actually that's good for them. At least they've tried.. Chill! I don't mean to brag about anything here, just to write down my story today in English. And if you can understand this post clearly, good for you ;) You're good at english, or even way better than me :) What am i anyway?