• Cowbee@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Something about French words makes you really want to say them with the most forced and shitty accent imaginable.

    Quesssont

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      11 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.

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        11 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.

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            11 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)