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[bigtombowski]

i know of some filipinos here in belfast who have made a conscious choice not to acquire the local accent! lol

[andypaul]

i know of some filipinos here in belfast who have made a conscious choice not to acquire the local accent! lol

They are sensible people

[JAMZ]

Better not to be seen or heard as trying hard speaking the Brit or N.Irish accent than being myself... It's just a bonus when they tell me that am already acquiring the accent... But the default accent a Filipino might get is the American accent because that is what is being taught in school...

Whatever accent it is, we Filipinos cannot hide our features and we're proud of it...

Whatever accent it is, as long as you are understood and can speak good English, that is enough... hehehe... Filipinos are flexible anyway.