Original question by @RicoPeru@lemmy.blahaj.zone
a lot of people here in the united states find it attractive to have a foreign accent (although depending on what it is they could hate it too). what about your country?
does it depend? what accents don’t they like if it depends?
Anyone judging anyone else making the effort to speak their language can fuck off. It takes a lot of time and effort to learn a language let alone embed yourself into another culture .
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Typically Arabs would be very impressed to see you even try to speak Arabic. I have never seen someone make fun of a foreigner for their accent. It’s also quite rare for a foreigner to speak without accent.
I’m guessing ICE likes it, it probably makes their job easier.
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I also tend to switch to their language automatically
Sad language learner sounds
Learning our language is admirable, especially because of a loud minority who never did despite living here for decades.
While some accents are more easy to tell apart and imitate (Georgian comes to mind) nobody will react negatively to hearing it.
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I don’t think any country has ‘a view’ on the way to speak their language. I mean, would there be a law, some rules and sanctions against accents?
People may have their own opinion on the matter but that opinion will vary widely from one person to the other.
My opinion, which was already mentioned in another comment, is that anyone making fun on someone speaking a foreign language can (and should) go funk themselves.
We should welcome those kind of efforts instead of mocking them, and we should also be happy to be encouraged to speak more foreign languages ourselves. I say that as I a French that’s poorly speaking a few languages and would love to speak a lot more.
In Lithuania at least my area if you speak it with a foreign accent you are still learning and by accent I mean misspelling every second vowel if you can spell correctly you do not have a foreign accent.
