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2 Dec 2022
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Is this person an American, based on his accent?
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Is this person an American, based on his accent?
Is this person an American, based on his accent?
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- Country or region United States
Obviously wrong
Explanation is not enough
Written in a language I can't understand
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- Country or region Czech Republic
@Totton thanks a lot. And could you tell that by his accent or do you only know that because he said it? 😃
I mean, does he have a perfect American accent?
I mean, does he have a perfect American accent?
- Country or region United States
@magasum He makes a good impression of other accents. If he did not say he was Swedish I would not have noticed.
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He speaks perfect American English without a hint of a Swedish accent, but there’s something about his manner of speaking that suggests that he is not a native speaker. Sometimes foreigners who speak excellent English push it too hard, becoming show offs.
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- Country or region Czech Republic
@PBKing you mean he doesn't behave American enough? Or that he's speaking in an unnatural way (not relaxed enough)? Or that he's choosing words and phrases natives don't say? Could you please specify? It would really help me.
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You can tell that he has a European accent, even though his English is fluent. For example, he sometimes uses an unvoiced S where Americans would use a voiced S at the end of a word. The way he uses tone is very characteristically Swedish.
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He also pronounces a lot of proper names differently from an English-speaker, such as "Eiffel Tower" and "Himalayas." Once he pronounces "volcanoes" as "wolcanoes," which is very European.
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@magasum His American English speaking is very good like he practiced a lot. He has very good UK and American accents. He speaks naturally.
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@magasum Right- in my opinion his behavior and facial expressions are not typically American. However his American English is so good that it would take a linguistics expert to explain why his accent and syntax are not purely native. I wish I could hear what he sounds like when he is speaking seriously on a complex subject. Regret I can’t be of more help.
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@PBKing thanks a lot for your effort. I tried checking his channel but unfortunately, I didn't find a single serious video.
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