Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
what language it is?
I didn’t catch this before I posted my answer. Are you telling me that English is not their native language?
Now I’m surprised and curious.
nipawomset@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s right, none of them is a native speaker of English - their English is learned via the standard combination of school, extracurricular courses, media exposure, and other typical means available in largely monolingual countries, and subsequently polished up abroad (at least two of them moved to Anglophone countries for university). Thus, I figured that the undercurrent of their native pronunciation should be sufficiently conspicuous to allow for making some educated guesses about their origin 🙂