I edit my original message, what I mean, and I guess it's vague ? is that if you go deep end first into learning extra languages you may not keep your morale in order. You might get disappointed because you can't learn to speak Icelandic in two weeks (like one guy claims) so you start off with an easy language first, get the benefits of a second language which will make wanting a third almost inevitable.
The class I was in was told by the teacher "they may say it that way in (native country) but that's not what I'll teach here, no, I won't teach it that way" needless to say that person proved themselves an idiot over and over. Dumped that course, but not the language.lightcrystal wrote: ↑November 18th, 2021, 12:13 am By the way the weirdest experience I had was being taught Mandarin Chinese by a Scotsman with a thick Scottish accent. That got interesting
In the end even a Scotsman will give you worthwhile education in Chinese which you can use. It all seems to fall into place and I wouldn't be able to say one part was better quality than another part any more than you can taste each and every ingredient in a cake after you've baked it.
I know what your saying, you learn from grandma and you'll sound like grandma, it's sort-of true, but in a way it doesn't turn out as you would expect it to. I think your brain just deletes the Scottish accent and goes with it.
I would say a Englishman Irishman and Scotsman all walk into a bar and teach you Chinese, you learn the words and grammar and vocab, but not the accent.
Conversely you goto the all native Shenzen born tutors in London and they'll teach you almost the same thing, a little better, and you'll learn words grammar and vocab, but you still won't have an accent.
I would say the only way to get the accent is to live there for some years.
I say we can listen to people halfway through learning our language and we shall remain clueless as to the identity of their teachers.
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