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Eye donto no
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Many students of English in some countries think that having a strong accent is not a big problem. If you speak Spanish, a strong Spanish accent may not be a problem for your Spanish friends, but what about other nationalities? Let's listen to a Japanese boy speaking English with a Japanese accent and see what happens. First just listen for a few minutes without reading the subtitles and see how much you can understand. Probably not much. That's what happens when people from other countries (like England) listen to you if you use an accent too strong.
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Report mistakesSo if you’re one of those students who think accent is not important, think twice. Remember that you’re not learning English to speak to your fellow nationals, but to people from England or any other country in the world.
My apologies to Japanese people, they’re just exemplifying here what happens everywhere.
Do you know the meaning of "Eye dontono watutu say didi"? Before you listen to the video try to understand the meaning of these English words as they are pronounced with a Japanese accent:
1- Donto 2- Didy 3- Battedo
4- crumbro 5- pray 6- finisto
7- ando 8- ordo 9- smodo
10- fasdo 11- edandoaso 12- footaboda
Then read the answers at the Key.
0- I don't know what to say, really
1- don’t
2- really
3- battle
4- crumble
5- play
6- finished
7- ando
8- old
9- small
10- fast
11- around us
12- football
Other examples from other videos are:
Trambeto (tràmbero)= tavel
Benisso (béniso)= Venice
mattoco poddo (mároco poro)= Marco Polo
eskido (éskiro)= asked
