Hell yeah! Was not speaking my native language for three years and developed an accent in it.
Accents just kind of stick to you. If you hear specific accent long enough you will start imitating it without even knowing.
Yes, I can attest to this from my own experience. I speak so much German all day every day that, when speaking to my Dutch friends and family, I sometimes start using false friends or even awkward sentence structure.
Yes, I speak 3 languages fluently and have accents in all of them.
You can actually change accents when you move to a different area, even though you are speaking the same language. I’ve even heard peoples accent change because they got a new work from home job, where they talk to people with another accent each day all day.
yup. got a friend who visited recently after 7(?) years abroad. her phonetics and prosody are now anglicised.
also, my grandma once made fun of my german accent. (thats a more complicated story but yeah potato kartoffel.)
I initially skimmed this and read that as “potato kerfuffle” and wanted to know more.
This reminds me that I need to start trying to learn German again, I suck at it
Definitely; I knew a Frenchman living in Australia who spoke French with an Australian accent.
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir, mate!
Not sure about an accent, but it will be noticeable.
From personal experience: I am aware that I often use structures specific to my current English-speaking region while speaking one of my native languages. Also, my slang and cultural references are really outdated. So I do not have an accent exactly, but it would be possible to tell something is off.
