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Originally Posted by grindy
Thanks.
Damn, though, I know I have an accent but don't hear it myself and alway hope it's not that noticeable.
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I feel your pain, for the longest of time I was convinced I don't have a weird slavic accent, then I recorded myself talking to colleagues and understood I sounded like I'm from the Czech republic. Took me a while to recover. Although I also figure working for 10+ years around people whose English is heavily accented hasn't done me any favours, particularly because I have this weird habit of matching my interlocutor's pronunciation (otherwise I feel like a pretentious d
ick :/ ).
Mariemarie sounds vaguely Norwegian/scandi to me.