if you learned in an english native country you’re welcome to pick 4 if you really want to see results but that’s like the vast majority of you sooo if you’re ok with just ignoring or bookmarking so the percentages aren’t too fucked up that’d also be gr8
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yeah i suppose the question comes down to what accent did your teachers have bc that’s what you sorta pick up on top of native language accent
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Also think it has to be an active process. My school was the snobbiest in the city (I think others have overtaken us now, thankfully) and we were hard into American music, movies, TV etc. but no one I remember got an accent
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depends! some friends who went to american intnl schools picked up perfect american accents despite living elsewhere; i get told a lot my french accent is near perf and ppl are always surprised i learned it on and off in school? but agree it’s def effort related
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This is the first time I’m seeing about accents being taught on a school level. What places do this?
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Learning English in German elementary school in the 90s was a very british affair. Lots of "How do you do?" and pretending to be the queen's guard is what I remember.
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In Russia, the British English is usually taught – presumably a leftover of Soviet times, when it wasn’t ideologically right to refer to the US. That being said, the qualification of most English teachers is so low, they teach some kind of "Soviet English,"
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and students accumulate American accent and culture through YouTube and HBO series.
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@.Harshil --> Intl. schools etc. also I learned people in countries without 'native' english like S Korea care about accents & UK vs US English. It's smart lol. India, Singapore etc. have native accents & english dialects that you end up having to unlearn or at least neutralize.
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I was taught the British one, but after a while the way I learned the language was mostly interacting with english-language media, and then it flipped back to American because, well, all the movies and tv shows and video games.
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