I guess to be more precise about this, a lot of 1st-gen immigrants, even ones who are fluent in English, still have a trace of an accent And a lot of 1st- and 2nd-gen people who grew up in ESL communities have this telltale "overprecision" of speech
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I've never seriously tried to do it but I guess if I wanted to try to "sound more Asian" without doing a full-on recent-immigrant accent I'd put more brief pauses/stops after consonantal endings of words etc.
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Not picking up on the natural rhythm of how words slur together in the speech of a fluent native speaker is a frequent "tell", it's one of the last things that comes when learning a language
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The equivalent of, I dunno, "writing in cursive" instead of writing in print Or like playing the guitar, a virtuoso guitarist knowing exactly when they *need* to lift their fingers off the strings and never doing it unnecessarily
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Will u pls rt my pinn sir

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Yes, trying to say 9 in hmong to someone and accidentally saying dumb instead to someone who is trying to learn math is scarring for both parties.
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My Asian-American friends absolutely have a kind of accent/speech pattern and I've tried to ape it sometimes.
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Incidentally, someone actually quoted/cited you within the thread.
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