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Old September 05, 2008, 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Rusty View Post
This question has come up before in the forums. I'll recap.

Just like we enjoy hearing a Spanish accent when someone is speaking English, they love to hear your accent, so long as you can make yourself understood.

Accents are always fun, so long as a conversation can be suitably maintained. If a person is unintelligible in a foreign tongue, the intrigue is quickly lost.
I agree with Rusty and I also remember talking about this before (probably in a previous life ).
When I hear an American, English... person speaking Spanish with an accent I find it most endearing and sweet. Funnily enough, I'm quite obsessive about my own accent when speaking English,and I've made such a big effort over the years that people hardly ever guess I'm Spanish (I'm being modest here ).
So, all in all, good Spanish with a slight accent will turn you into a 'femme fatale' ... (Thank God I checked your profile Supa-coopa, I had written babe magnet instead of femme fatale )
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