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Learning a Foreign Language

Stuff You Should Know

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How to Imitate the Sounds of Your Language

"If you hadn't used that word, this would not be the classic episode," Kaffner says. "It's akin to that baby talk where they will sort of sort of dumb down and slow down their speech a little bit" In German class he got complimented on his pronunciation because he could just roll the R. But other kids in there, especially in the South,you would get these people speaking German with like a Southern accent.

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