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I was once quite fluent in Spanish, and under no illusions that I didn’t have an accent that was obvious to any native speaker.
There are sounds in one language that are made differently than sounds in another. Millions of muscle memory repetitions are quite difficult to break. Some people are good mimics, others not so much.
When I lived in Australia as a kid, I started to pick up a bit of an Australian accent but it didn’t get very far.
When I listen to a native French speaker pronounce words, I’m quite confident that I could never achieve that level of mastery.
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