for example, i’ve heard of the U.S. dialect of Spanish.
some states like mine (Minnesota) have american norwegian (which I might learn along with european Norwegian)
does chicago speak the european version or is there a us dialect?
I’ve been told my polish sounds “old”. I know only a little bit, learned from grandparents and great grandparents. However they were speaking in the early 1900s when they left Poland for the US, that’s the Polish I grew up hearing.
I grew up in the Midwest where there were quite a few 2nd, 3rd, + generation Polish Americans. Now I live on the East Coast where there are more people who immigrated from Poland in the last ~20 years in addition to the generational families and they sound quite a bit different from what I grew up with.
może możesz napisać przykład sposobu, w jaki mówisz po polsku
uczę się polskiego od mojej mamy
I didn’t learn to read/write it, just simple spoken conversation. I would not claim any level of fluency.
Oooohhh okay!
:)
Maybe? My family is from the southern Appalachians, but we’ve spread all over.
One ancestor married and had kids with a polish lady, and moved to Pennsylvania. So, that branch tended to marry with other polish descended people more often than not. Their accent is different from people I’ve known from Pennsylvania, which includes some of my wife’s family.
So I tend to believe that the polish american accent does exist. Thing is, I don’t know enough about Chicago’s history to even start to pick away at their accents and how they came about. But I would still say that if there’s been a significant Polish population there, it’s almost certain that there is one