This actually worked for me in high school. I used to learn languages as a hobby back then. (OK, I still do now.) Anyway, back then, I was also a theater geek, so I’d practice copying other people’s accents and manerisms. I had a bunch of Russian friends and they said that they understood my English better when I spoke with a Russian accent. (no joke) When I started learning Russian, the accent and the rhythm of the language came very easily. With some other languages, when I feel like I’m not doing well capturing the accent of the language properly, I’ll listen to native speakers of that language speaking English for a bit, and that helps a LOT.
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