Accents (2003)

I’m tired and find myself tuning out or sometimes even being irritated with the English cadences. The music of the voices is different here, more obvious when one is too distant to catch individual words and hears only the music, melody and tempo. I remember in Italy listening to how the music changed as we moved south. But today I just wanted to hear the same old flat American accent, and not have to listen so hard to understand. I notice others have trouble understanding us as well, and I speak slower, more distinctly, to be understood.