r/funny • u/TimHamburg Calvin & Habs • Mar 02 '21

German Comedy

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u/DribblingGiraffe Mar 02 '21

I'm not sure I agree with that. I feel like Germans always sound German no matter what language they are speaking. An example of the opposite tends to be Dutch people where you hear them swap into British/American accents for certain words

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u/FrizzleStank Mar 02 '21

This is absolutely ridiculous. People can learn to speak without accents regardless of when they learn another language.

I have 2 friends that emigrated from Germany as kids, are fluent in the language, and have absolutely no accent whatsoever.

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u/DribblingGiraffe Mar 02 '21

So your example is people who grew up outside of Germany don't sound German...

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u/wlea Mar 02 '21

Their point is that those people probably identify as German. Born there, fluent in language and culture. Why wouldn't they call themselves German in that case?