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People whose original language isn't English, which dialect did you try to imitate while learning? (lemm.ee)

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[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Austrian here. My school struck to Oxford English and we had speaking exercises to get us to adopt a British accent. (Their main goal was to make us sound more native and less like Arnold Schwarzenegger). American and Austalian accents were accepted but not actively encouraged by the teachers.

I myself tried to adopt the British accent but I think I kinda ended up in a weird mixture of British and American English :')