I know there is because I don't have one and this has caused social problems for mehttps://twitter.com/nancywyuen/status/1371970132302458880 …
-
Show this thread
-
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
3 replies 3 retweets 34 likesShow this thread -
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.
1 reply 0 retweets 12 likesShow this thread -
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
2 replies 1 retweet 24 likesShow this thread
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
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.