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Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo
Her name looks Portuguese to me.
I guess in Montreal people’s accents can be affected by whether their English teacher is an Anglophone or Francophone.
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Not really. Most francophones who are English teachers here often have very little trace of French in their accents when they speak English. My kids have had anglophones, francophones and even allophones as English teachers over the years and it hasn't really affected their accent when they speak English.
Their accent in English depends on other factors like speaking in French with their friends all the time, and intangibles like if they are "gifted" for languages and accents as some people are.
The latter would be my case, to the point where my Spanish teachers always told me I had an amazing accent. When in Spanish speaking countries, I'd trot out my basic Spanish and people would mistake me for an extremely fluent speaker and immediately get into rapid-fire, often colloquial Spanish - which I could barely understand at all.
One of my kids seems similarly gifted for languages.
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