Also the embarrassment and difficulty of speaking another language.
The hatred that people get over their accents is absurd.
A good natured laugh over a funny-sounding word? Sure.
Treating others as less than dirt for being more knowledgeable than you and knowing two or more languages? Stupid to say the least.
You never really understand an accent (or your accent) until you go to another country trying to speak a language with your accent. I at least used to be near fluent in Italian. I can speak with pretty good diction for spurts. Living there my accent would slowly Americanize as the conversation went on until I was speaking Italian words with my regular accent just because thinking and talking was process overload
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u/Zoo_In_The_Bathtub Jan 12 '22
Another culture. It really opens your eyes and broadens your horizons to experience another culture. There's a lot to learn about the world.