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Originally Posted by moallem Unfortunatly I don't have access to British or American tv programes.I had opportunity to talk to a German who spoke American accent and prefered it to British and he said my English was well and everyone could understand me. |
Aiming at excellence is a very positive attiotude in life.
I found this quote looking for an equivalent of the French saying "la perfection n'est pas de ce monde" :
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” (it's said to be from a football coach) that sounds very sensible to me.
As long as everyone can understand you, and your English tends towards excellence, i think there is no problem, unless you want to infiltrate the CIA or the MI5 (or 6 ?...).
I sometimes think that using the right word is more important tahn having a perfect accent.
Nabokov had an accent, when i read Lolita, and Ada, I was amazed at the way he could juggle between different languages.
I had a Romanian student in one of my classes this year. She had a lovely accent, it sounded much more musical than many local French accents, and although she made a few mistakes that a native would never make, her French was more correct than those of some native kids, even for grammar.
My two centimes d'euro worth...