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Are you proud of them? To what extent do they affect your identity?</p><p id="8818" class="pw-post-body-paragraph oi oj gz ok b ht ol om on hw oo op oq or os ot ou ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd gs bk">I am Japanese and have lived in London for nearly 10 years. I speak English more often than Japanese now, but I still can’t decide which accent to use for my English.</p><p id="3dbf" class="pw-post-body-paragraph oi oj gz ok b ht ol om on hw oo op oq or os ot ou ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd gs bk">Today, I would like to share my thoughts on the difficulties that immigrants face in choosing a particular accent in the local language. People living abroad may relate to my experiences. This story can also answer the common question, ‘Why does that foreign neighbour still have a strong accent from their home country?’</p><h2 id="cc7a" class="pn po gz bf pp pq pr dy ps pt pu ea pv or pw px py ov pz qa qb oz qc qd qe qf bk">I use two types of Japanese: Osaka and Tokyo dialects</h2><p id="01f8" class="pw-post-body-paragraph oi oj gz ok b ht qg om on hw qh op oq or qi ot ou ov qj ox oy oz qk pb pc pd gs bk">Before we get into the topic of English, I’d like to share how I mastered two different Japanese dialects and what I learned from the experience. The Japanese language has <a class="af ql" href="https://koubo.jp/article/9411" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">16 major dialects</a>, the most unique of which is Ryukyuan, spoken in Okinawa. It greatly differs from the other 15 dialects spoken on the mainland, and I can barely understand it.</p><p id="faf1" class="pw-post-body-paragraph oi oj gz ok b ht ol om on hw oo op oq or os ot ou ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd gs bk">I was born in Osaka, Japan’s second-largest city. 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