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Matt Vs Japan on why your accent matters, Stephen Krashen, the input hypothesis and much more

I'm Learning Mandarin

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Is Your Accent Too Thin?

If someone's accent is too thick then it just you have to use like 10 20% extra brain power just to comprehend what they're saying and that's not a pleasant experience. I personally think French and German accents sound kind of nice but when a Chinese or a Japanese person speaks English I just find their accents when they're too thick to be more unpleasant so there's it it depends on the language it's and you can't say it all you know wholesale accommodation wholesale, but some accents happen to sound nicer than other accents.

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