What you said about actually pronouncing sentences and words out loud is really important. In my mind I'm speaking this perfect English but when I occasionally actually have to talk in English I always come across some sounds I can't properly produce or some words I don't know the correct pronunciation of.
Switching the inner monologue to English is something I did as a kid. I figured it might help me make English more natural for me. I also actually tried to make an effort to pronounce things correctly until it became a habit. I speak English today just like a native English speaker (with an American accent). When I'm online and talk to people on voice chat and it is new people and I say that I am from Europe, they usually think I'm trolling.
I am non-native English, German and French speaker. I learnt English in school and lived in England for 2 years. I also learnt French in school, it was a one of my favorite subjects. I continue to practice it to this day. I speak German cause I live in Germany now. It s not an easy language to learn, but I have lived here for more than 10 years now, so it is ok. Not too good, not too bad. Hehe, probably I have made many mistakes writting this...
@@leoisikdogan ohh, I hope this doesn t sound like I am bragging, I was just sharing my experience. I still have my strong native accent. I know these videos take a lot of time to produce, but maybe you can share some info on how you learnt to code. I am now learning tensorflow, I am looking at code written by other people, trying to understand, to reproduce... but sometimes I break. Some commands are so long and illogical....I am also learning recipes from cookbooks...
@@iloveno3 Thanks for sharing your experience. It doesn't sound like you were bragging but it's still impressive to speak 3 foreign languages. Accents are fine as long as the speech is clear. There isn't a single standard accent anyway. I may make a video on how to get started with coding if I accumulate enough content to talk about. As a side note, the current version of TensorFlow is, in general, not beginner friendly. One of the premises of the upcoming version 2.0 is the ease of use. Hopefully the updates in v2.0 will ease the learning curve.
I've suspected for a while that the best way to eliminate any lingering vestiges of an accent, should you wish to do so, is probably to record your own voice and listen to yourself from a 3rd person perspective-which this video seems to confirm. Interestingly, I found that as you (partly/mostly) lose your original accent, you also lose the ability to speak authentically/consistently with that (former) accent. Meaning, you can't fake it any more than you current accent permits. In fact, to "regain authenticity," you would probably have to record your own voice and compare it to a recording of someone who's still accustomed to speaking the language that forms the basis of the accent on a daily basis. Of course the same is ultimately true for dialects as well.
