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The accent is unbeatable: how Americans accurately define Russians during a conversation

“Americans almost always accurately identify a Russian person after talking with him for a short period of time. And even our compatriots who know English very well, as a rule, quickly “reveal” themselves in certain words,” writes the author Made in USA Blog on Yandex Zen.

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Why is it impossible to learn to speak like native speakers

Many Russians spend enormous effort to get rid of the accent, but it turns out they have it bad enough. The fact is that this important element of our speech is formed on average at about six years old. By this moment, we are already good at speaking our own language and are its native speakers.

Moreover, only those who are called bilinguals can also learn to speak good some other language well. From childhood, they are brought up in families with two languages, which often happens in international marriages. This allows them to be fluent in both languages ​​and to be their speakers.

The accent is almost impossible to remove

Under the Russian language, a person’s speech apparatus develops with age—the muscles of the jaw develop properly. And it is quite natural that when speaking English it is impossible to remove this.

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Of course, you can engage with a tutor in order to speak much cleaner, but still it will slip something like that that will immediately give you a foreigner.

As they say american russian

First of all, Americans criticize us for the fact that we mainly use the British version of English, since it is taught almost everywhere here. And even if we are fluent in the British version, we may simply not understand what an American is telling us.

In turn, the Americans themselves are well aware of our harsh accent, when we place great emphasis on consonants. We simply cannot speak as softly and with our mouths as wide open as the Americans themselves. Well, even if we study, we still pronounce Chicago instead of Chicago, or San Francisco, although in American speech there is no letter “C” at all.

Why is it not scary

The thing is that Americans constantly hear some English different from their pronunciation variant, because people in the USA come from all over the world. So the Russians, and anyone else, will not experience any unpleasant moments associated with the language. Therefore, it’s definitely not worth trying to defeat the accent by all means in order to speak exactly like the Americans.

On the other hand, if in Russia we see the same American who speaks Russian more or less tolerably, then this person will immediately become a local celebrity. In the USA, no one will somehow set you apart for knowing their language, since here it is considered commonplace.

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