How will you accent different languages depending on how you learn them?
June 19th, 2010 | 
Author: For example, let’s say I learn Spanish from taking high school courses. Now, I probably will be speaking Spanish with an American accent. Now let’s say I learn Spanish through immersion as a result of living in Spain for a year. Will I speak Spanish with an American accent or a Spanish one?
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If you learn Spanish due to immersion your accent will definitely be more like the locals as that’s what you would be hearing day-in and day-out and that’s how you would start speaking the language. This said, your American accent has been with you since childhood and will still exist when you speak Spanish but it would’nt be very noticeable.
Just keep practicing and you’ll get the hang of it. Hope I helped.
Maxwell
ur partly right. if u learn spanish in spain you MAY acquire a spanish accent–or NOT.
whether u really do depends on three factors: (a) your age, (b) your attitude (some people feel uncomfortable speaking with a native-like accent), and (c) some so-far-unstudied (as far as i know) features of your brain that make some people much more able to acquire correct accents in adulthood than others.
you’ll probably have an American accent, but overlaid with the accent of the people around you who speak Spanish – we learn by copying whta’s around us, and if you hear a certain accent, then that’s how you’ll eventually speak, too, though one’s native accent is hard to get rid off altogther.
it don’t just work with foreign languages! my uncle went out to Australia – he was cockney, and so already had a part of the accent – within three years he was talking such fluent Strine that we had a problem understanding him!
If you learned Spanish while living in Spain, you would probably still have your american accent while you speak but you will also speak the language with the Spanish accent because you are learning it as you hear other people talk. In high school, you only hear the teacher speak it, therefore, you learn to speak it as he or she does, but if you learn the language based on the surroundings and environment,you will learn it and try to sound as they do, but I believe that your American accent will still affect the way you’d speak Spanish
it depends on how you learn it cuz on of the teachers at my high school learned spanish in spain and she has a spanish accent when speaking spanish