nipawomset
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- Submitted 6 hours ago to [deleted] | 10 comments
- Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? 11 hours ago:
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It’s neither South Africa nor the UK, though I’m surprised how often the native speakers of this particular language are mistaken for South Africans, given that I can think of hardly any salient connections between the two🙂
- Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? 11 hours ago:
The correct answer is:
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Polish. Thanks for your guesses and congratulations to all those who were close or even hit the nail on the head, even if somewhat hesitantingly.
- Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? 13 hours ago:
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A fair guess, but no :)
- Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? 14 hours ago:
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An interesting and well-argued guess, but I’m afraid it’s nonetheless somewhat off the mark.
- Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? 14 hours ago:
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Slavic is a good guess
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- Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? 22 hours ago:
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No🙂
- Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? 1 day ago:
I suppose that’s a pretty solid indication that they learned it well 🙂
- Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? 1 day ago:
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One of your picks is correct
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- Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? 1 day ago:
The both initially moved to England for university - him at 19 and her at 21.
- Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? 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 🙂
- Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? 1 day ago:
„Then 3 hit me with surprise rhoticity and now I’m confused.” Hopefully at that point the challenge became entertaining 🙂
- Comment on Can you tell the native language of the people from these clips? 1 day ago:
That’s an interesting and unexpected guess. It would seem to me that no. 3 in particular doesn’t sound even remotely Welsh, but perhaps absolutely wild guesses (to use your phrase) dispense with such stereotypical assumptions🙂
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