I live in East Midlands but I'm not originally from the UK, nor is English my first language. So yes, I've got a distinctive European accent which I'm unable to get rid of.
That is true, I share the feeling - all of my English teachers been like that. Hell once in gymnasium course I had to translate my speech... To the teacher and students alike. Mainly because I spoke with accent described earlier and used the correct words relative to the subject.excalipoor said:Oh, I'm not blaming anybody. Only when people studying the language at a university level sound like Mika Häkkinen do I start throwing hissy fits about it.SinisterGehe said:To defend us Finns. You should have an idea how hard our language is phonetically, like really. We have unique language with no roots to any major language - we are far as you can be from anglo-sax languages. And in schools pre 2000 we had no teaching of speaking English - So anyone above the age of ~25 has really bad pronunciation (unless they been in contact with English systematically).
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