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Embrace your accent! Women born in America, native English speakers, will find it attractive.The world would be a much nicer place if something easier than English (such as Spanish) would be the international language.
I'm primarily referring to pronunciation which makes zero sense in English and is extremely frustrating to learn. In my native language, everything is spoken the same way it's written. Same in Spanish. In English, everything will have different pronunciation just for the fun of it. To this day I find it incredible that in languages like English once you learn a new word you need to learn how to pronounce it (yes, you can guess the pronunciation but you'll never be sure).
For example:
All three words start exactly the same way but in all three, the first vowel is different. Add for example the words "python" and "pithy" and you have five different vowels in similar words.
- pathos
- pathological
- pathetic
I've been learning the American accent for a couple of years (the last 1.5 years very seriously with a coach 3x a week). After so much time and effort I've only managed to maybe neutralize my accent (my coach says that at this point it would be hard for him to pinpoint where I'm from by my accent alone). But I'm still nowhere near sounding like a native speaker.
I keep repeating this all the time to native English speakers: you have no f*cking clue how blessed you are to speak English as your native language. No. f*cking. Clue.
We are a nation of different accents. If you can get your point across in English, you’re already solid.
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