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| idiomasaur Diglot Groupie United Kingdom youtube.com/user/idi Joined 5501 days ago 45 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 25 of 26 25 April 2010 at 10:15pm | IP Logged |
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I grew up speaking Irish Gaelic and English at home (in Ireland), and then later moved to
England aged 4, and at home we gradually stopped speaking Irish, not too sure why. And now I can't remember anything in Irish besides a few random sentences, but people say that an Irish accent comes through when I speak English sometimes, even though I think I have a strong south-eastern English accent. But who doesn't like Irish accents? So its all good. :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Alejeather Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5338 days ago 9 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian | Message 26 of 26 26 April 2010 at 12:52am | IP Logged |
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I didn't start learning Spanish until I was 12, but have achieved a pretty good accent.
When I started learning Italian this year, all three of my first Italian teachers independently of one another asked me at some point, "Are you *sure* that your native tongue is English not Spanish?" I think my Italian accent has hints of both American and Spanish, just depending on the word. I'm working on it... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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