Accent-uating the Positive

August 23, 2006 - 9:55 PM by

Sabra At Heart, aka Israluv, is looking for a new apartment and signed up for an internet service that will send her daily listings of available apartments in her price range and desired location. As a favor to her current landlord, she also posted on this service that her apartment would soon be available for rent. She soon learned some bad news, and some good news:

My landlord is responsible for finding the new tenants but me being the nice person thought that this might be easier for all of us involved.

How wrong was I!

At SEVEN THIRTY in the morning when the calls started coming in I realized I was in trouble. BIG BIG trouble. So I decided to change my voice mail to “If this is in regards to the apt please call back after 6:30pm”. But part of changing the voice mail on an orange cell phone is having to LISTEN to the new recording and then choose to save it.

I was shocked!

That couldnt be my voice on the other end.. could it? I as in shock. Now I’ve been told my hebrew is good (truthfully my grammer stinks and my vocabulary could use some help) but my ACCENT is great! I really and truthfully did not believe that this is how I sounded. I have a bit of an accent but I totally sound Israeli. Sababa!

So I have my NY accent (and trust me when I saw that there is no mistakening me for a non-NYer. Cawfee and bawll are both part of my vurnacular) AND I have an Israeli accent.

Next up …. conquer the Brit accent and I can then make fun of all my British friends. Cheers!

As an immigrant with an outrageously strong American accent, I am jealous. How did she do that?

Tags: • Category: Immigrant Moments 

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2 Comments on Accent-uating the Positive

  1. israluv on Thu, Aug 24th 2006 9:25 AM

    2. I started my year in seminary using the “fake and stupid” israeli accent (as many put it… boy did i get made fun of for my accent that year). It is not just about how you pronounce the letters and the words but WHERE to place the intonation. Half the battle is learning what part of the sentence needs to be stressed.

  2. Dan Khoury on Mon, May 28th 2007 7:03 PM

    3. Hello: I will be auditioning later this summer for a role that requires an Israeli accent. Can you offer any assistance or suggestions? Thank you.

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