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AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
My name is Natalia Sierra Rodríguez. I was born on 29th of April in 2000. I’m 21 years old. I’m from Bogota, however I live in Mosquera with my parents, my younger brother and my little dog Macarena. Some years ago, I graduated from high school along with a systems course. Nowadays, I am studying a BA in Spanish and Foreign Languages at La Salle University and hopefully I will graduate next year. On the other hand, I like to spend time with my family, swimming and going to concerts. Additionally, I really love animals, and I enjoy making beaded accessories.

My name is Maria Camila García Rodríguez. I was born on 29th of March in 1998. My hometown is Tocancipa. I have lived here since the day I was born until 2010. In December 2010, I moved to the United States with my mom and my sister. I lived in Englewood, New Jersey, until 2014, afterwards I moved to Miami Lakes, Florida and there I graduated from high school in 2016. The same year, I decided to come back to Colombia. At the present time, I live in Tocancipa with my dad and fortunately I'm surrounded by most of my family. I am currently in the 9th semester of BA in Spanish and Foreign Languages at La Salle University. On the other hand, I really like cross-stitching and painting by numbers, also I like to watch movies and series and I enjoy biking.

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In the past, being abroad, we have had some experiences with accent as a difficulty to communicate in English with people from other nationalities. To support this, when Natalia traveled for vacation to The Bahamas, she tried to communicate with a new friend, then she realized that it was complex to understand his English accent, because his accent was characterized by speaking “Bahamian Creole or Bahamian English.” Likewise, Camila experienced something similar when she met two Chinese girls and she perceived that it was complicated to communicate with Asian English speakers. Consequently, this topic is relevant to study from an intercultural communication perspective since in multiple social situations you might encounter that accent is part of English communication skills as it reflects the background and communication style of each individual. Therefore, an accent can be recognized as one of the barriers of intercultural communication when you travel abroad and interact with people from all over the world.

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The importance of English accents in Intercultural Communication around the world.

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We included the following three questions for the interview section:
-What do you think about English Native and Nonnative accents?
-What are your role models of English accents?
-According to your profession/occupation, could you share with us any experience about English accents?

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-Video Your Accent, Your Identity.
We consider that this first video is a useful resource related to our topic due to the fact that he explains his own experiences regarding accents as an identity that reflects his own story.

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Your Accent, Your Identity | Moustafa Sabra | TEDxConnecticutCollege

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-Video 11 English Accents from Around the World in 1 Video
Likewise, this video in particular caught our attention because what he mentions lead us to reflect deeply on the great variety of English accents that exist around the world and the importance of recognizing them all equally regardless of whether they are native or non-native.

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11 English Accents from Around the World in 1 Video

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Anzaldúa, G. (1987). How to tame a wild tongue. Borderlands/La frontera: The new mestiza (pp. 53-64). San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute.

Kong, M. & Kang, H. (2020). Identity and Accents: Do Students Really Want to Speak Like Native Speakers of English? RELC Journal, 1. https://doi-org.hemeroteca.lasalle.edu.co/10.1177/0033688220939246

Sabra, M. [TEDx Talks]. (2020, April 22). Your Accent, Your Identity [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9MbqmUbtbs

Samovar, L., Porter, R. & McDaniel, E. (2012). Using intercultural communication: The building blocks (chapter 1 – Reading 1). In E. McDaniel, L. Samovar, & R. Porter (Eds.), Intercultural communication: A reader (pp. 4-19). Wadsworth: Cengage Learning.

T. [Eat Sleep Dream English ]. (2021, August 20). 11 English Accents from Around the World in 1 Video [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dGl_9Kk18c