Truck Load Rates Halt 8 Week Slide 2.0

I was born and raised in a small town in northwestern Poland near German border. Across the river there was a visible German village. That town used to be all German before the end of 2nd World War.
After that war, Soviets seized a huge part of Eastern Poland.
My family was deprived of their land they had owned for centuries and expatriated from what is now Belarus. The alternative was to stay there and become a comrade working in a kolkhoze.
Many Poles never felt good on the newly aquired German land and decided to emigrate overseas, if they could.

As a kid I had mandatory Russian language at school and in high school 4 years of German. Neither did I like much. Or remember.
English was completely self taught.
In order to gain proficiency in a foreign language, it must be liked and there must be long term systematic effort.

 

A friend of ours, originally from Denmark, is an interpreter for a government agency. She speaks seven languages fluently and her English is flawless.
She says that of all the languages she's learned English was the hardest to master. Too many oddball rules and pronunciations.
I can understand that. After 74 years I'm still trying to use English properly.

 

Mister new broker gets a big fat F so far. If he doesn’t tighten up... this will probably be a one and done deal.

 

I used to go out with the girl that was from South America. I can't remember if she came here at seven years old or at 14 years old or maybe 9 years old?

She spoke English perfectly without even a hint of an accent. You would never know she was not born in the United States.

Yet there was an endless supply of idioms and colloquialisms and sayings that she never heard.

It was surprising to me that there were that many things in our language that she never heard before since she was here for so many years.

I have to say though, she thoroughly was fluent in the international language of love

 

For someone who is in their older teenage years already, it is next to impossible to replicate what we all know as accent.
I have never really studied it or researched this but my own theory is that all the muscle based speech organs are developed to a certain point with age and trained in a language pertaining to a specific social environment. After that point, the muscles are simply formed in their shape and flexibility and become impossible to change in some drastic way, so that a person who was raised and grew up in a completely different phonetically language could not master another such as New Jersey English and speak it undetected.

Therefore, no James Bond will fool a Russian that he is a Putin substitute nor Bridgete Bordeaux will pretend to be Merlin Monroe.

It maybe completely possible for an American born and raised in Chicago or Salt Lake City, to speak in different American dialects but not for a foreigner though.

 

Right as it was getting interesting, you end the post.

 

I grew up in southern Ohio until I was 17, and people there have a definite southern twang to their language. I heard an audio recording of my voice several years ago from a family event when I was around 12 years old, and couldn't get over how strong my accent was at the time. Having lived in California since i was 17, the accent is completely gone, but if I go back to southern Ohio and talk with old friends, my accent creeps back into my tone, almost as if I never left.

 

I too dated a gal from Columbia back in the early 80's, and her verbalization skills were second to none.

 

Well. I wonder if an accent makes a broker make a judgment of what he should pay a guy or not.
To tell you the truth though, being a foreigner myself, I feel more comfortable to book a load from a person who does not have a foreign accent.
Look at me, the hypocrite.

 

The market is hot today. Every half hour I get calls asking for a truck for the lanes I ran in the past.
Its nice to hear again brokers asking how much I want to charge, instead of telling me how much they are willing to pay