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teacup of sunshine
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: curator of the WTFbus museum
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Oct 5th, 2009, 10:01 AM
I was raised on "france french" and I can't understand Quebecois/Jouale worth a damn. Louisiana French is weird too, but I can match it up in my head with how an American would pronounce a French word and it fits.
Most of the time, if an ESL speaker is putting on an American accent, even if they're doing a good job of it, they inevitably fuck up by using words or phrases Americans wouldn't use. Like "will I" for "shall I", that sort of thing, and that's a dead giveaway, no matter how good an imitation of an accent they're doing.
And some spoken Japanese I can follow, while I can't others...I think it's either a speed or accent thing.
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