Matt Vs Japan on why your accent matters, Stephen Krashen, the input hypothesis and much more
I'm Learning Mandarin
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Your Accent in a Language Is Like Physical Attractiveness
The tweet reads like this it says your accent in a language is a lot like physical attractiveness some try to argue it doesn't matter and in an ideal world it wouldn't but deep down we all know people judge you based on it. I'm not sure whether having a native level accent is a significant advantage when it comes to doing things that really matter to a lot of people learning languages for example establishing close friendships and that kind of thing. me I'll just read out the tweet and then kind of my reaction to thisA couple of thoughts that came up when I when I read this tweet because I thought it was really good tweet very provocative and it's like created a bit of a storm on
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