Re:Ask HN: How to retrain tongue/mouth muscles for foreign l...
by p1esk on Sunday December 22, 2019 @05:12AM
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2% of adult learners of second languages learn to speak without an accent
Citation?
This doesn’t match my experience: I have heard at least a few hundred non-native speakers of my native language (Russian), and every single one of them had an accent, obvious after just a few words. The few exceptions were be native speakers of other slavic languages, but even then I suspect they learned Russian as kids.
Citation?
This doesn’t match my experience: I have heard at least a few hundred non-native speakers of my native language (Russian), and every single one of them had an accent, obvious after just a few words. The few exceptions were be native speakers of other slavic languages, but even then I suspect they learned Russian as kids.