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Originally posted by TIO
Stiltzkin, go to France for a couple of years. See how happy you are if you never speak a word of English. Even if you do that, see how good your French is after a few years. I'll wager dollars to dimes that you still won't be able to pronounce 'rouge' or even 'France' correctly. Losing an accent isn't a matter of practice; sometimes it just won't happen. Whoever has the accent still probably speaks English better than you speak any other tongue at all.
The only exception is college lecturers. I'm having enough trouble understanding propositional logic in English; having it presented in something that's damned near Polish doesn't help. But then, I wish no harm to my lecturer; I just wish he'd find something to do besides try to teach me!
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Please read all of my posts twice from now on if this is how you want things to go down. I said, "if you have a HEAVY accent". I don't mind accents, I actually like most accents. Having a heavy accent after living in the USA for 10 years qualifies as ignorance and apathy to properly speak English. I'm Mexican and I had a heavy accent for many years when I was young, and I now have no accent at all. I know several other people who have done the same thing, so please don't try to tell me this nonsense. With enough effort anyone can utterly rid themselves of their accent, but this isn't what I was saying-- I was simply saying to get rid of your HEAVY accent, and turn it into something easier to understand. By the way, my French teacher actually complimented me frequently on my pronunciation while I was taking her classes.