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Try learning a language where they won't understand you with a foreign accent. I assume tonal languages are like this but haven't tried learning any.

Japanese is sort of like this - you have to say foreign words the Japanese way very forcibly, to the point that Americans will think you're being racist if they hear you do it.



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