2 korrents from this piece
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Our reading
Keeping a foreign accent is a choice about who you are, not a limit on what you can hear or say.
Their wordsThis guy may be in France, but obviously holds strongly to his identity as an American, so he’ll say the words correctly, but keep the American twang that he knows as his voice.
Our reading
The first thing to do in a new language is to imitate its accent completely, before the words.
Their wordsBut it seems the first thing I’d want to do when first learning a new language is to imitate the accent completely, to get that sound in my mouth, to sound as native as I can.