For this assignment I called my cousin who was born and raised in Los Angeles. I decided to call my cousin instead of my parents because my parents can not speak English so calling him would fit the assignment more. I don’t see my cousin very often because he’s very busy the only times I get to see him are at family gatherings. While talking to him on the phone I didn’t pick up on anything new or surprising about the way he speaks. We had a very casual conversation, we talked about college and dorm life and he gave me a lot of advice since he has already been through college and is now getting his masters at USC. He started of the conversation with a “What’s up?” and “What’ve you been up to?” in which I replied “nothing much”. Since he grew up in southern California he rarely uses the word “hella,” even during our conversation. During our conversation, I asked him a serious of questions and found out that he says soda and bucket instead of pop and pail which is not very surprising in California. Being a 23 year old male college student he knows quite a lot of slang such as “swag”, “sick”, “dope” but he rarely uses slangs that I use such as “totes”, “adorbs” and “ratchet.”  However, like me he has never heard of the words dank and flame which I think sounds kind of funny and weird. The vowels in pool and pull, feel and fill sound totally different to me. I also pronounce words such as bad,bat and bot differently. However, the words collar and caller sound the same to me and I say them similarly too.