Original question by @[email protected]
a lot of people here in the united states find it attractive to have a foreign accent (although depending on what it is they could hate it too). what about your country?
does it depend? what accents don’t they like if it depends?
Anyone judging anyone else making the effort to speak their language can fuck off. It takes a lot of time and effort to learn a language let alone embed yourself into another culture .
agreed, my fiancee got made fun of once because she said something wrong in a language i kind of speak, portuguese. she tried her best, though. :(
My wife experienced this too despite speaking 3 languages and is currently learning her forth. We live in an age of ignorance unfortunately. Eu também falo e não é uma língua fácil de aprender.
eu concordo, não falo fluentemente mas meu pai foi pro brasil uma vez. a lingua portuguesa é maravilhosa!!!
Você fala muito bem, eu também não sou nativo, aprendi por causa dela. Ela é brasileira e eu também adoro o país. Me sinto em casa lá.
I don’t think any country has ‘a view’ on the way to speak their language. I mean, would there be a law, some rules and sanctions against accents?
People may have their own opinion on the matter but that opinion will vary widely from one person to the other.
My opinion, which was already mentioned in another comment, is that anyone making fun on someone speaking a foreign language can (and should) go funk themselves.
We should welcome those kind of efforts instead of mocking them, and we should also be happy to be encouraged to speak more foreign languages ourselves. I say that as I a French that’s poorly speaking a few languages and would love to speak a lot more.
Typically Arabs would be very impressed to see you even try to speak Arabic. I have never seen someone make fun of a foreigner for their accent. It’s also quite rare for a foreigner to speak without accent.
