learning a foreign langauage

ive been learning tagalog for 3 months straight. I'm pretty good wiht my tagalog, but people say i sound like a foreigner when speaking it.Should i try to mimic the tagalog accent?

ive been learning tagalog for 3 months straight. I'm pretty good wiht my tagalog, but people say i sound like a foreigner when speaking it.Should i try to mimic the tagalog accent?

narutosup

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ive been learning tagalog for 3 months straight. I'm pretty good wiht my tagalog, but people say i sound like a foreigner when speaking it.Should i try to mimic the tagalog accent?

playmynutz

I think native people would assume you're mocking them if you tried to do the accent too. JML897

[QUOTE="JML897"]I think native people would assume you're mocking them if you tried to do the accent too. narutosup

ive been learning tagalog for 3 months straight. I'm pretty good wiht my tagalog, but people say i sound like a foreigner when speaking it.Should i try to mimic the tagalog accent?

narutosup

this is all i know of foreign language.

When I speak Spanish, I do my best to speak with the accent....can't roll my r's well though lol

Learning a foreign language on your own outside of a class is really hard to do. I am learning Korean for my girlfriend and it's been almost 2 years since I started and I think I still suck immensely at it because I am only learning words on my own and not progressing fast enough. and I only get to go to Korea every now and then. She helps but it's not enough to become fluent

Best thing to do is go to the country where they speak the language and totally immerse yourself in it, that way it's learn or be alone. If you can't do that then attend a class or school where they teach it that gives you homework and deadlines, it will feel horrible to study like school but you will actually learn.

And lastly only learn a language you will actually use a LOT and can hear a LOT. Otherwise you will constantly struggle

I am quite fluent in French and German (studied both for 5 years), yet my focus is shifting towards Japanese and Arabic (Japanese because of interest in the language, and Arabic for religious purposes)

When I speak Spanish, I do my best to speak with the accent....can't roll my r's well though lol

ExtremeGamer93

What accent? There are many...

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When I speak Spanish, I do my best to speak with the accent....can't roll my r's well though lol

pspdseagle

What accent? There are many...

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When I speak Spanish, I do my best to speak with the accent....can't roll my r's well though lol

Nengo_Flow

What accent? There are many...

Are you kidding? The most annoying are easily the Spanish and Argentinian...actually I woundn't call them annoying just the most distinct and easily identified. Easy target for jokes in Spanish.

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When I speak Spanish, I do my best to speak with the accent....can't roll my r's well though lol

pspdseagle

What accent? There are many...

Where I'm at (Texas), Mexican Spanish is the most common around here. There is the occasional Cuban accent but mostly Mexican. I don't get why they have a lisp in Spain though... That has always confused me. I've heard plenty accents but Spain is always confusing me.

Just settle down guys.

Obviously Creole is the most annoying.

Just settle down guys.

Necrifer

Remain clam.

Ugh I'd say skip the accent. I've been trying to pick up some more French, but I can tell that my accent is atrocious.

Although the one word I can say with a stellar french canadian accent is poutine.

I think native people would assume you're mocking them if you tried to do the accent too. JML897

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When I speak Spanish, I do my best to speak with the accent....can't roll my r's well though lol

ExtremeGamer93

What accent? There are many...

Where I'm at (Texas), Mexican Spanish is the most common around here. There is the occasional Cuban accent but mostly Mexican. I don't get why they have a lisp in Spain though... That has always confused me. I've heard plenty accents but Spain is always confusing me.

The Spanish accent (from Spain) is the correct one in terms of pronunciation, there's a difference between C, S and Z which in Latin American countries pronounce incorrectly, where the C, S and Z sound like S.

WTF is Tagalog. Also: Learn English first, pal.Brozekial

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What accent? There are many...

OrianaDorta

Where I'm at (Texas), Mexican Spanish is the most common around here. There is the occasional Cuban accent but mostly Mexican. I don't get why they have a lisp in Spain though... That has always confused me. I've heard plenty accents but Spain is always confusing me.

The Spanish accent (from Spain) is the correct one in terms of pronunciation, there's a difference between C, S and Z which in Latin American countries pronounce incorrectly, where the C, S and Z sound like S.

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[QUOTE="ExtremeGamer93"]

Where I'm at (Texas), Mexican Spanish is the most common around here. There is the occasional Cuban accent but mostly Mexican. I don't get why they have a lisp in Spain though... That has always confused me. I've heard plenty accents but Spain is always confusing me.

whipassmt

The Spanish accent (from Spain) is the correct one in terms of pronunciation, there's a difference between C, S and Z which in Latin American countries pronounce incorrectly, where the C, S and Z sound like S.

Of course there are many different accents all over Spain and there are three more languages (Galego, Catalá and Euskara). Not only in Andalucia do that, in the Canary Islands too. The LL is pronounced like Y. But the languange you hear on tv, for example in the news (mostly) is the Castellano, except in Cataluña, Galicia and Pais Vasco they have their own language although they teach Castellano in schools.

Ugh I'd say skip the accent. I've been trying to pick up some more French, but I can tell that my accent is atrocious.

Although the one word I can say with a stellar french canadian accent is poutine.

zeldaluff

I guess you should mimic their accent, it makes it seem like you're more fluent.

Work on the basics of the language first then you can go and try to gain the accent later.

Yea first try to mimic the accent but with less emphasis and try to mix the way they speak with the way you speak if u get what i mean, i do this when speaking to my portuguese friends though i can't exactly mimic the way they say everything.