Speaking English with Mexican accent and Spanish with gringo accent.

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Is not that cool?

Leandro_tami · Accepted Answer

Cool? It's half funny, half disturbing!

I do want to learn English well, but I don't want to contaminate it with my own accent.
When I hear a gringo speaking English I think two things: first... "hey, that's odd!"... and "what is he saying?"

Anonymous · Answer

no, is noo(t) cooh(l)

Anonymous · Answer

I think stop learning just because you really don't like the mexican accent is one of the most stupid things I've ever heard. You have to understand you'll never talk the same as an american or as a british guy, the same as they'll never speak spanish as a latino or a spanish...  Besides, not all the mexican accents are awful, but of course that if you want to talk like a "chicano" it would sound horrible. But if you don't try to learn, and someday you'll be something important on your life and you don't dominate english You won't be too much.  It's like I would say that I would never like to learn any other language and stay with spanish. Just because my accent is horrible. Such a shame!!

Vardogr · Answer

It's really difficult to achieve a native level of fluency with most languages. This largely depends on the phonological differences between your native language, and the language you want to learn. If the language you want to learn has sounds that aren't present in your native language, then this becomes a major hurdle. If your native language has such a robust phonology that the phonological model of another language can be completely transliterated with perfect accuracy, then you're going to have much better luck. This is the case with, say, English and Japanese. All the sounds in Japanese can be represented to a native speaker of English without any compromise, but the converse is not true; thus, a native speaker of English has a better chance of speaking Japanese with convincing fluency than a native speaker of Japanese has a chance of speaking English with convincing fluency.

I wouldn't worry about having an accent. Most English speakers aren't going to mind, because we're very used to this fact. English-speaking countries have a LOT of diversity. Accents only tend to cause problems with miscommunication when someone is first learning to speak English, and their vocabulary is engulfed in such a heavy accent that it becomes necessary to constantly repeat themselves.

Speaking English with Mexican accent and Spanish with gringo accent.

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