From a traveler recently: “I’m going to visit a barber while I’m here in Tokyo.” “Oh really?” “Yeah I am very interested in Japanese barbers because of YouTube.” “Do you speak Japanese?” “No but I have memorized my lines. Can I practice them on you? *nails it*”
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Not a daily occurrence, but I occasionally meet people who get off the plane with a better accent than I have after living here for 15 years.
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“What’s a better accent?” Suffice it to say that is a complicated can of worms but the are able to successfully play the character they want to be playing automatically, in a contextually appropriate fashion. This requires no small degree of skill.
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Yes. Language researchers know this - my father in law is a professor at Berkeley and has created a system to teach lanaguage using video clips like this...
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