There is a known phenomena among some E Asian living in America to learn English so thoroughly that they loose the accent. The problem is that their English is too good; their diction becomes the accent that gives them away.
It’s almost impossible to pass as a native speaker without years of immersion in the culture.
I know a Swedish person who people absolutely refuse to believe is Swedish. She learned English largely from TV and speaks perfect vernacular English with a SoCal accent. She’s also black so I think that contributes to it.
I don’t think it’s impossible to do, just impossible to do alone. If you’ve got enough time and a good dialect coach, you can totally get there (H>E at least, I’d suspect E>H is harder for many reasons)
I challenge you to find even the most savant polyglot speaking a foreign language without a trace of an accent.
Extra points for two languages with such different phonetics as Hungarian and English
There is a known phenomena among some E Asian living in America to learn English so thoroughly that they loose the accent. The problem is that their English is too good; their diction becomes the accent that gives them away.
It’s almost impossible to pass as a native speaker without years of immersion in the culture.
East Asian or Eastern European? Asian to English is a hard change. I’ve met many Eastern Europeans that you’d never tell.
I know a Swedish person who people absolutely refuse to believe is Swedish. She learned English largely from TV and speaks perfect vernacular English with a SoCal accent. She’s also black so I think that contributes to it.
I don’t think it’s impossible to do, just impossible to do alone. If you’ve got enough time and a good dialect coach, you can totally get there (H>E at least, I’d suspect E>H is harder for many reasons)