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[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 32 points 13 hours ago

One of the first Irish guys I met in Ireland was the son of French teacher. He had been born while she was working in Africa (I forget which country) and so spoke absolutely fluent French, but with the thickest of African accents. Chatting with him was a delight, but also a constant struggle between my respect for him and complete hilarity.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 37 points 14 hours ago

I have a friend who has a black dad from italy, a white mom from russia and lives in sweden. He speaks all three plus english fluently which is very interesting sometimes.

[-] Jordan117@lemmy.world 40 points 15 hours ago

Reminds me of this really interesting video on the Mississippi Delta Chinese community -- folks who are entirely of Chinese descent but who have thick Southern drawls and names like Gilroy, and still feel like outsiders despite living there their whole lives.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 23 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

My native language is Russian and I have met a black woman who speaks Russian better than I do. (I haven't been there for over thirty years so maybe there are some black people living there now, but I never saw one before coming to the US.) Her parents are diplomats and she is fluent in a couple of other languages too because her family lived in several different countries when she was growing up.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

Can you elaborate more on how she used it?

[-] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 22 points 16 hours ago

I had a professor who looked Chinese but spoke with an Indian accent. Similar story. Made sense he got into linguistics

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

He might be from Northeast part of India.

[-] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 15 points 13 hours ago

He was raised by an Indian family in Malaysia. Really fun teacher, he could switch between different accents very easily and naturally, but an Indian accent was his default way of speaking

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