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Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/languagelearning@sopuli.xyz
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I thought I might share a small phonetic game/challenge with you. All 3 individuals in the attached clips were born and raised in the same non-Anglophone country and speak the same native language. Can you tell, based on the peculiarities of their English pronunciation, what language it is?

  1. https://vimeo.com/1205985914
  2. https://vimeo.com/1206296678
  3. https://vimeo.com/1206827782
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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

I would not have guessed that any of these people were non-native speakers or didn’t grow up bilingual. They have an exaggerated way of speaking but without your context, I would have assumed that was because they were deliberately enunciating their words for a presentation/demonstration.

I was told once when I was learning a new language that I have a “tv” way of speaking because the only exposure I had to the language until then were courses where the instructor was speaking very clearly in a way that sounds unnatural in casual conversation :)

What for you are the giveaways that they are not native speakers?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    "What for you are the giveaways that they are not native speakers?"

    Their native language is the same as mine, so I presume I'm just sufficiently attuned to its sound to hear its influence peeking through. However, I suppose that the main giveaways for native English speakers might be the following ones in particular: No. 1 is mixing up several British accents, No. 2 puts too much emphasis on dropping the T and there is a certain Continental European hardness to her consonants, No. 3 devoices consonants at the end of words and her pacing might seem unnatural.

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