Strange question, but: Is it really that unusual for an American to be able to distinguish between English spoken with an English, Australian, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, German, French, or Finnish accent?
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Yeah, makes sense. I found with people whose pronunciation was excellent, word choice would sometimes give origin away, but that's a much more vague thing to go by.
Strangely, you can usually tell Swedish/Norwegian/Danish people by how they write English online. The biggest tell is phrases like "he were" or "she were" instead of "was", as Swedish only conjugates verbs differently based on tense, not on subject.
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Then there's the story of how I had to explain to a friend that "Polis" and "Police" are pronounced identically between Swedish and English, and that "Police" is not in fact pronounced "Pole Ice". He was confused because of the word "ice" in SV-SE vs. EN-US.
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Yeah, English is such an inconsistent mishmash that way. Most of my backpacking was in Germany, and I really appreciated how just knowing some basic rules were enough to know how most words should be pronounced (at least well enough to express what I needed to)
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Interesting! I've found with FR folks it's often adjectives coming after the noun, and with people from DE it's something about word choice I can't quite define. Like they'll pick a valid word, and use it correctly, but it's a different one than US/UK native speakers would use.
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