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Also speak with non natives in L2
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Iversen
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25 November 2011 at 1:26am | IP Logged

Iversen wrote:

However there is one caveat: really good second language learners may actually speak more clearly than lazy native speakers, (...)

Cainntear wrote:

But is it clear because it is more similar to your accent?
(...)
Most Gaelic learners borrow the voicing distinction into Gaelic, even the very good ones, so a learner accent is "clearer" to another learner, but it doesn't really help you learn the language....

I understand your objection, but in a situation where the alternative might be not being able to underatnd a genuine native speaker it might be a help to be able to understand [I}someone. However as I have stressed earlier I'm generally not liable to adopt speech patterns from anybody but native speakers so the stage where I might accept those 'comprehensible, but not quite genuine' speakers would be short.

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