Many people speak with very pronounced Chinese accent

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My TikTok chatroom welcomes 3,000 people or so every day and some of them join the conversations.

I notice that many of them speak with strong and obvious Chinese accent. I wrote a sentence to express the idea:

Many people speak with very pronounced Chinese accent.

Is the italic sentence natural?
 

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strong/distinct Chinese accent?
 

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strong/distinct Chinese accent?
distinct and strong.

It's like a French person speaks English, you can guess he's from France because of his accent.
 

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I'd just use "strong". It's the word we collocate most often with "accent".
 

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Many people speak with very strong Chinese accent.

Is this one good now?
 

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Whichever adjective you use, you need an indefinite article before it.
 

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A strong accent is often called a thick accent.
 

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Well, there's Mandarin. And there's Cantonese. (Not that I can tell the difference.) Apparently, what you mean is people who speak the same language might have trouble understanding each other. (That's not a new problem.)
 
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