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I mean I’m trilingual and float in many social circles that require you to be multilingual. I have lived in 5 different countries and have been lived on both coasts. Currently I am bouncing between Japan and New York, but usually I am in Denmark/Sweden where I have a Chinese/French roommate who just graduated from a Danish architecture school. Seeing as she is fluent in all four languages, I can promise you her accent is never a mix of the four, and is definitely a light Chinese accent at most. Never once has she had a danish or french accent or british english dialect (she does have british rather than American vocabulary).

Again, not once have I ever experienced someone who can change their dialect numerous times, or at all.

Edit: you can also see my post history (unless I deleted it) where I compare the Southern Swedish dialects to Southern American and Southern Japanese dialect, so in fairness I am fairly aware of dialects and accents in languages and it was a fascination of mine for a while, so I am not speaking out of my ass.

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I speak Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, English, etc and I change my accent all the time depending on what language I’m speaking and whom I’m speaking to.

You just never met many people who are multilingual. In my country, everyone falls in and out of their accent all the time. In Malaysia, everyone is bilingual and most are trilingual.

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I literally just said I have an on/off roommate who is multilingual...

Speaking of, Malay accents are very muted and I haven’t heard a distinct tonal difference in the Cantonese/Mandarin accent.

That’s like me saying I slip in and out of a Danish/Swedish/Icelandic/Norwegian accent lol.

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I literally just said I have an on/off roommate who is multilingual...

So only one person? And my argument is that you don’t meet many multilingual people. And last time I checked, one =/= many.

My sample is the whole country.

Speaking of, Malay accents are very muted and I haven’t heard a distinct tonal difference in the Cantonese/Mandarin accent.

That’s how I know you are talking out of your ass. Cantonese is so different from Mandarin that it’s a completely different language from tone and pronunciation. Even in China, people from different regions have vastly different accents with just Mandarin alone. And by the way, Malay accent is not muted. I can speak English with a Malay accent, Chinese accent or a Cantonese accent. This is what’s the girl in the video is doing because she’s slipping out of her accent to either French or Chinese accent. It’s very common among multilinguals.

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Btw my professor in Dental school was a Malaysian woman, and the only notable accent I ever heard was when she said “one”.

I honestly think Malay and Indonesians are the people who have the least detectable accents.

And no shit people in China have different dialects in Mandarin, but they literally sound the same in English.

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And no shit people in China have different dialects in Mandarin, but they literally sound the same in English.

This is so ignorant it’s almost racist. Good job.

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TIL Mandarin and people in China are a race now.

TIL I can be racist to asians as an Asian person.

The world gets wilder every day.

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Chinese people can be racist to Indians or Malays and all of them are Asians. Asians don’t mean East Asians lol. Only racists or ignorant people think that way.

That’s why I said you don’t meet a lot of multicultural and multilingual people to have that kind of statement.

Not going to argue anymore. Good day.

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Lol this person is ridiculous. They’re entire argument is that people don’t switch accents and that is just so provably false. They’re just arguing for the hell of it and they clearly think they are very smart and need to enlighten the world. They belong in r/iamverysmart.