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tblue37
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Thu Jan-20-05 02:46 AM
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are difficult or impossible to overcome. Except in very rare cases, any sound a child is not exposed to during his first year of life will be forever out of his reach. That is why foreign-born adults who learn to speak a new langauge perfectly in terms of grammar and vocabulary may nevertheless be unable to shake the accent that comes from their native language.
Remember Henry Kissinger?
There are many reasons to be pissed at Ahhnuld, but the fact that he speaks with an accent isn't one of them.
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