Foreigner speaking your native language

[mikeyup]

Slovenian former football player. He speaks portuguese better than any spanish coach or player that has been here.

É impressionante como o pessoal da Europa de Leste apanha o sotaque português tão bem. Temos uma maneira de pronunciar as palavras muito semelhante.

[zhaoyun]

Mandarin speakers find it hard to learn but speakers of non-tonal languages can pick it up with ease, especially if they know Japanese. It has a pitch accent system. Other neighboring dialects have a complex tone sandhi system. Just that Shanghainese has the most complicated tone sandhi system that it devolved into a pitch-accent system.

I've always thought Shanghainese sounded very unique amongst the different dialects.

[kkk77]

[Rudel]

It would be somewhat cheating to do it with French, I always find non-native speakers who speak it almost perfectly. Especially Dutch or Greeks, go figure.

But the weirdest thing I've seen in my life, a Japanese speaking pitch-perfect Languedocian :

[SupaThug]

Legendary interview by Paolo Guerrero(peruvian who plays for my team)



Sadly,he's leaving Corinthians

[Gauthier]

Foreigners visiting Mexico and speaking Spanish.

From the U.S.A.



From Japan.



From Russia



From Finland



From Belgium



From France

[Goujian]

I've always thought Shanghainese sounded very unique amongst the different dialects.

True, from what I've read about it, it diverged quite early in the 4th-5th century, but might have been earlier. Much of its vocabulary and quite a bit of its syntax are from the Northern-Southern dynasties period. Some pronunciations I found can be traced to earlier periods. Shanghainese is in the Northern dialect grouping of Wu, due to the influx of settlers from Northern China during Song dynasty. So it has a medieval Northern Chinese substrate which makes it a paradox because it's a divergent southern dialect with strong northern influence. I've been told the dialects of Shanxi (and some neighboring areas in Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi) do resemble Shanghainese quite a bit because of this northern stratum. But it was in recent times when its sound system became sort of different because of tone mergers and complex tone sandhi. I wouldn't consider it a representative of the group, the title should go to Suzhou or Shaoxing. Shanghainese absorbed influences from various languages because it's literally an international city. I would give the title of 'unique-sounding' to Wenzhounese, which is completely different if you ask me, it should be classed as a separate language.

[Sui Generis]

Italian Danilo


Russian Andrey


Slovak Emrach


English Robbie


Spanish Manuel


Japan Masataka


American Antonio

[Mikula]

Chantal Poullain - born at France, actress, married Czech actor Bolek Polívka . Divorced with him but stayed in the Czech Republic, where works as actress, still.

[Mikula]

Zbigniew Czendlik - born at Poland, perhaps the most medially known catholic priest in the Czech Republic.
Although he lived close to Czecho-Polish border, he remembered that before he started to serve as priest in our country (in 1992), he knew just 2 Czech words: Pozor vlak
(Attention, train)