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| torie Newbie Canada Joined 4907 days ago 9 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Russian | Message 1 of 35 20 June 2011 at 6:46am | IP Logged | ||
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As I am learning French, I was wondering what French spoken with an English accent would
sound like to a native French speaker. Is it pleasant, like English spoken with a Spanish accent, or unpleasant/comical? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| megazver Triglot Newbie Lithuania Joined 5995 days ago 34 posts - 52 votes  Speaks: Lithuanian, Russian*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Polish | Message 2 of 35 20 June 2011 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Dunno. The English accent when speaking Russian or Lithuanian is pretty comical, though.
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| starrye Senior Member United States Joined 5095 days ago 172 posts - 280 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 3 of 35 20 June 2011 at 8:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've never heard anyone talk about an English accent sounding pleasant in any other language (except English).... to the point I kind of cringe whenever I see questions like this. Maybe it's just because English is so common nowadays, so people are less likely to find it charming, or special. If anyone does find it pleasant, it would be interesting to hear why.
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 4 of 35 20 June 2011 at 8:36pm | IP Logged | ||
Is Russian accent in Lithuanian pleasent or not? Because Russian with Lithuanian accent sounds fine and beautiful. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| July Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 5274 days ago 113 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishB2 Studies: French | Message 5 of 35 20 June 2011 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's not worth worrying about. If you're a genius, you'll learn to have a native accent
in your other languages. If not - like most people - you'll have a bit of an accent. I personally think my English accent in Spanish is ugly. I also know (a larger than you might suppose) amount of people here in Spain who think that their (through practice reasonably light, very pleasant to my ears) accent in English is embarrassing and hideous and wrong. Because they can only hear the differences between how they speak and how a native sounds, not how charming their accent might be to native speakers of English. You are from where you come from. You speak another language natively. Embrace that and others will too. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 5116 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French | Message 6 of 35 20 June 2011 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is something that's always bothered me. Among English speakers, if you speak English with an accent, as long as you're understandable, it's generally seen as attractive. I would think of it as pretty rude to suggest to someone that they should learn to speak without an accent. Yet as an English speaker learning another language, there seems to be so much emphasis on sounding exactly like a native. It just seems impractical and unfair to me.
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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 7 of 35 20 June 2011 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | ||
You don't have to speak like a native, but sometimes big work must be done to speak in such a way, that you could be easily understood. I've heard that even wrong intonation can cause bad reaction in English-speaking countries. It is really unfair that everyone has to study English and native English speakers study the language they want. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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