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2 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Well I’ve heard a lot of Europeans speak English because the Air Force base near where I live is a NATO affiliated one I believe. I know we’ve at least had Danish, Dutch, Scottish, and German families in town (and at my old high school) before. So if I didn’t know where you lived I would’ve said Brazilian accented English in all honesty, but it sounds close to the German accented English too. Your English is closer to American English though I would say. 

@dcro I don’t know if @heywoodu would have a strong accent because Dutch is the closer language to English, and from the Dutch kids I’ve heard speak English, they are all (at least when they come here for the 2 year stay or whatever) highly fluent and have a barely noticeable accent.

 

A lot of them do have a strong accent. I hear it almost every time a Dutch athlete gets interviewed or something.

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1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

A lot of them do have a strong accent. I hear it almost every time a Dutch athlete gets interviewed or something.

Well the kids that come here have also been exposed to a fluent society at a much younger age to I guess, maybe that has something to do with it?

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3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Well I’ve heard a lot of Europeans speak English because the Air Force base near where I live is a NATO affiliated one I believe. I know we’ve at least had Danish, Dutch, Scottish, and German families in town (and at my old high school) before. So if I didn’t know where you lived I would’ve said Brazilian accented English in all honesty, but it sounds close to the German accented English too. Your English is closer to American English though I would say. 

@dcro I don’t know if @heywoodu would have a strong accent because Dutch is the closer language to English, and from the Dutch kids I’ve heard speak English, they are all (at least when they come here for the 2 year stay or whatever) highly fluent and have a barely noticeable accent.

Kids are a lot quicker at picking up the 'right' way to speak though. I've had English classes until 11 years ago or something, after that it's all just talking to other people who don't have English as native language. I'm able to say what I want without problems though (sometimes better than in Dutch) and that's what matters for me, which is why I'm also fine with my heavily accented German :p 

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3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’m going to find a way to blacklist the podcast in Croatia. It shouldn’t be hard, I’ll just watch out for those people wearing ugly checkers.

You there, stop messing with my bro or get the fuck out.

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6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

You there, stop messing with my bro or get the fuck out.

Don’t make me bring the orange into this ugly colors discussion :mad::p

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2 minutes ago, hckosice said:

Looking for the worse interview in English ? Stanislav Řezáč the Czech cross-country skier will never be beaten :lol:

 

Warning ! may hurts your ears

 

"Very good "vetr" (In czech Vetr means wind) :p

 

Sounds like Sagans interviews when he first came to California. “How was the race today?”, “Good.”. “Who was your hardest competition today?” Response in Slovakia or Czech or whatever the hell yall speak

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3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Sounds like Sagans interviews when he first came to California. “How was the race today?”, “Good.”. “Who was your hardest competition today?” Response in Slovakia or Czech or whatever the hell yall speak

 

Oh Sagan and his Typical Slovak accent recognizable from kilometers is one epic trade mark itself :lol:

 

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Just found this, quiz for Slovaks about English language, put the right answers :lol:

 

What would you like to drink?

 

a) Crazy – it was absolutely packed.  :lol:

 

The quiz https://www.cas.sk/clanok/846330/najdete-spravnu-odpoved-na-zakladnu-otazku-otestujte-si-svoju-anglictinu/?AT=wgt.article_clanok-crosspromo.c.x...B.&utm_source=sport.sk&utm_medium=zona-article&utm_campaign=box-cas-article&utm_content=cross

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