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Date of upload: Oct 10, 2023 ^^
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Pretty easy for native speakers. #3's British accent is somewhat okay, but she makes grammatical mistakes that give it away. Actually, most of the non-native speakers make little grammar mistakes that give it away more than accent sometimes - "I pretty love drinking hot tea on rainy days". Also, non-native speakers seem to have a lot of trouble pronouncing R+L together. Words like "world" and "girl" are dead giveaways.
#1 has a decidedly American accent though, and perfect grammar.
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I would’ve loved Sophia 🇺🇸 (Beth from Florida) as the native English speaker to try fooling her with a British accent or something because they previously knew each other. So many new Americans on the show! South Korea must be a popular destination for US Expats! I’m not used to seeing strangers who she didn’t previously met, physically getting close at the end, it must be an European thing. It was a fun episode!
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English is a very easy language to learn, in Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese there are genders for all the words and you need to combine them with the right termination, not mentioned the right tense and person of the verb! In Portuguese there are words written in a way but they sound completly different as in English like the l sounding like u and sometimes sounding like the "real" l, I think French has this kind of written in a way but spoken on other way...
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She did very well, and if you look at her final guesses you can see just how close she came to getting them ALL correct:
#1 - Guess was Germany - Actual was Austria - Both are German speaking neighboring countries - so the base language was correct.
#2 - Guess was Native English - Actual was Native English American - had just spent a weekend together.
#3 - Guess was a disbelieving England - Actual was Italy - The only really odd-ball person but totally understandable given her mixed heritage of northern Italy.
#4 - Guess was Spain - Actual was Spain - Rather obvious.
#5 - Guess was a last moment guess of France - Actual was France - There were some clues that she must have gotten just by listening.
#6 - Guess was Russia - Actual was Belarus - The two official languages are Belarusian and Russian and are neighboring countries.
So, except for #3, she got not only the correct language but placed the person in an area that, at one time, was part of the parent language country. Plus she got the native speaker.
That is very good, and she's American. In terms of matching languages:
#1 - German - German
#2 - Native English Speaker - Native English Speaker
#3 - Not English ? - Italian
#4 - Spanish - Spanish
#5 - French - French
#6 - Russian - Russian
Outstanding Job ! 84% correct.
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Interesting. Apart from #1 and #2, everyone else clearly has a non-native accent. I have to give it to #3 and #5 though. I speak both languages and work extensively with French and Italian natives, and I still couldn't tell you where these two ladies were from based on accent alone. Usually the French accent is obvious to me from the way they form their vowels (especially the O's) and the lilt of their speech (gravitating toward the end of the phrase/word) and mouth tension. But this person didn't have what to me are defining features.
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I think there were some hints apparent in sentence construction or word choice.
Tea had a very good American accent, but no native English speaker would say, "My favorite food, like crispy." I wonder if she was going to say that she liked "crisps," but then remembered that she was supposed to be an American who would say "chips" and tripped herself up.
Sofia's tell was when she said "I pretty love drinking hot tea" and "I have lived very lazy, cozy." Those just aren't natural English constructions.
"Guadalupe's" backstory was a pretty clever way to explain the accent, but saying that she spoke Catalan made said story highly unlikely.
Lini's and Yuliya's accents were thick enough to give them away.
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@chanchaniceman
7 months ago
That Austrian girl’s English is quite almost flawless.
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