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darkdemize@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

This sounds like something that would vary from country to country. Also, assuming the person still spoke the local language, how would you even know?

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emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Accent, mostly. And most Asian-Americans do not learn their respective Asian language.

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- darkdemize@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I got the impression that they were referring to emigrants that naturalized and latee repatriated, not necessarily their descendants. Also, just from my anecdotal experience, it seems that second-generation immigrants tend to learn both the native and host languages, and third-generation and beyond don’t know their native languages, or just bits and pieces. Source is my in-laws, as my wife is a second-generation immigrant (technically first but she was a baby when she came over.)
  
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  - emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Most people who live in the US for even a few years get this very distinct ‘American’ accent, even when they are speaking their mothertongue. I don’t know how to describe it; I would say that the vowels get sharper. If you are from the US, listen to a German or Russian speaking English, and then take the opposite of the difference you hear.
    
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