Hi everyone, which one is correct? "Due to my penchant for badminton, I found tennis intriguing and secured a position in tennis team" OR "Because of my penchant for badminton, I found tennis intriguing and secured a position in tennis team"?
@Robusto Yes, she's clearly from Spain. Her intonation pattern or phrasal prosody gives her away. It's straight/flat in pitch. Some American Spanish is too, though, but it would have other distinguishing characteristics if it were.
She's super obviously andaluza because she's a seseo speaker. The conversion of esses in the syllable coda into an open vowel and a bit of aspiration instead of a close vowel plus an s is typical of Sevilla and other southern area whence the American colonists originated.
Including las Islas Canarias. It's not Caribbean, who also do that, because her intonation is that of Spain, not sing-song.
@RegDwigнt I thing 100 or 200 years ago some style guides prescribed one over the other for clauses but it was always a fake rule that didn't correspond to actual speech.
@RegDwigнt Writing Statement of Purpose for Graduate school. So I think Due to would be better as it is more formal. Also, tennis and all is not there, I just used tennis for example, it is something else in real.
Hi, I am preparing Statement of Purpose for Grad school. Which one is correct? "I developed this habit during my Bachelor's at XYZ University" or "I developed this habit during my Bachelor's from XYZ University"?