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40. Polish and Welsh

Fri Oct 5, 2012, 04:49 AM

Oct 2012

There's a man I know who is Polish and was raised there, he then went to a Welsh University and so his English combines the usual Polish accent with Welsh one. It took me a while to get it figured out as I could hear both sides in his voice, when he explained where he'd been studying it all made sense.

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