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Pow_Pow_Punishment posted...

If they're a native-speaker to that language it's understandable. If they're not, I don't judge them harshly or anything because they're trying to be respectful but it just sounds bad.

Also, I think it's impressive when people have enough mastery of being multilingual that they tune their accents to whatever language they're speaking. If a native speaker pronounces a Spanish word in an American accent while speaking English but differently when speaking Spanish, that's pretty cool to me. I think about these things as an immigrant.

What if they dont realize theyre being offensive by making a stereotypical accent?

What if a native speaker thought they were being respectful by saying all english words with a strong and almost ridiculous southern accent?

Edit: Weird example: my wife can speak spanish and english fluently but has an american accent as she grew up mostly here. Spanish speakers sometimes say she sounds silly speaking spanish with an american accent.

Whos even right there? Shes a little annoyed cause it makes it seem like shes not a real Uruguayan/Spanish speaker cause she has no accent but she kind of blows them off.