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Do you have to understand a language to recognize an accent?

My friend said that to identify an accent you have to know the language but I disagree. I think it would help but I think that it's still possible to recognize which accent the speaker has even if you don't understand what they're saying. Who's correct, my friend or me?

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  • 9 years ago
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    You.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Not really. It is fairly easy to pick up Germans pronouncing J as Y, Z as TS and W as V.

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