I thought I might share a small phonetic game/challenge with you. All 3 individuals in the attached clips were born and raised in the same non-Anglophone country and speak the same native language. Can you tell, based on the peculiarities of their English pronunciation, what language it is?
I would not have guessed that any of these people were non-native speakers or didn’t grow up bilingual. They have an exaggerated way of speaking but without your context, I would have assumed that was because they were deliberately enunciating their words for a presentation/demonstration.
I was told once when I was learning a new language that I have a “tv” way of speaking because the only exposure I had to the language until then were courses where the instructor was speaking very clearly in a way that sounds unnatural in casual conversation :)
What for you are the giveaways that they are not native speakers?
“What for you are the giveaways that they are not native speakers?”
Their native language is the same as mine, so I presume I’m just sufficiently attuned to its sound to hear its influence peeking through. However, I suppose that the main giveaways for native English speakers might be the following ones in particular: No. 1 is mixing up several British accents, No. 2 puts too much emphasis on dropping the T and there is a certain Continental European hardness to her consonants, No. 3 devoices consonants at the end of words and her pacing might seem unnatural.