Comments by "Jeremy Barlow" (@jeremybarlow2291) on "My English is TOO GOOD for a Russian! 🇷🇺 How I learned English" video.

  1. He would blend in, but he would blend in, because the US has a melting pot of accents from non-native speakers, and multiple regional dialects and accents, and with Canada, the UK, New Zealand, South Africa, and Australia putting out a fair amount of movies and TV shows that make their way into the US market, Americans are exposed to a lot of English accents and dialects and we accept them routinely because of that melting pot thing. I mean these days we also get content from English speakers in the Philippines, the Caribbean, and multiple African nations, plus India and Pakistan, Malaysia and Singapore. We have a mismash of accents swirling around in the US and many more entering our consciousness from the Internet. I mean you have probably heard Bahamian accents, and Jamaican accents, and any one of those could belong to an American. I mean the melting pot of English accents is common in the US.
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  2. Nothing is wrong with your accent Roman, but there is a twinge of Russian in your speech patterns that is the same little twinge that any non-native speaker has regardless of how long they have been a fluent English speaker. I mean Selma Hayek will always have a subtle Mexican accent, Arnold Schwartzenegger will always have a German accent, Ryan Reynolds always has a Canadian accent. I mean he is a native English speaker, but there are subtle things that native speakers will always hear no matter how long or how well someone speaks the language. I'm sure the same holds true when you hear a fluent non-native Russian speaker even one who has worked hard to perfect their accent. It's an indescribable thing that is just there. I mean your inflection has this subtle Slavic thing that is just there. Your pronunciation is perfect, but there is a weight and sort of heavy masculine deep thing in your voice that seems common amongst Slavic speakers who speak English regardless of how well or how long they speak it, or how much they work to have a neutral accent. It's just a thing that is there. It's not a problem though because like I pointed out with Ryan Reynolds, to most native English speakers even other native English speakers will always have their local accent or dialect show through in certain moments. I mean my understanding is that Arnold Schwartzenegger's German accent when speaking his native language is kind of a countrified bumpkin sounding Austrian accent that would be reminiscent to certain strong Appalachian accents in the US which was so out of place that Arnold doesn't dub his own lines into German since the days of the original Terminator because it would be out of place. I would assume that different cities, Russian provinces, and also countries that made up the former Soviet Union all have their own accent and dialect quirks that are obvious to you as a native Russian speaker. They aren't wrong, they are just there. I mean I would suspect that you would hear a different accent from a native Chinese or Japanese, or English speaker from Australia when they are speaking Russian which you could not help but hear. It's the same thing when you speak English for native English speakers. It's just a subtle thing that is definitely there.
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