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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

The funniest part is using those exaggerated accents while speaking the language can actually help native speakers understand you better.

You'll always have a foreign sounding accent but the accent is part of the word so if your not at least somewhat faking an accent your not saying the word correctly.

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You just gave me a flashback to an ESL class where one of my classmates was being a little shit, and decided to mockingly take on the most over-the-top English accent he could manage while reading aloud.

... Well it actually worked quite well and the teacher was pleased lol.

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

This is basically how I speak English

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Ey luv ahs lawng ahs oi can understahn yew is awright

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

My "accent" is actually worse than that because I'm mixing up several American accents with British accents, with some scottish/Irish sprinkled on top. Plus my native french accent and the occasional German accent (because I learnt it before English and a lot of words are similar)

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