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For me complete mastery means that you sound like a native. It helps being a spy a lot as well when you need to take on different identities.Mastering English and speaking with an accent are different.
For me complete mastery means that you sound like a native. It helps being a spy a lot as well when you need to take on different identities.Mastering English and speaking with an accent are different.
Mjölnir;25871785 said:For me complete mastery means that you sound like a native. It helps being a spy a lot as well when you need to take on different identities.
Mastering English and speaking with an accent are different.
If that's what she's doing, then during her down time when she's not undercover, why not drop the accent? Why does she need to keep up the charade? If she were to take on a German or Swiss identity, does she still even think in those languages and continue to speak like that, even if say, she were with Hawkeye and they're by themselves and no-one else is listening? She's not undercover within SHIELD as far as we know.
Anyone who has "complete mastery" over a language never does that, even if they sound like a native when they're speaking it. Natasha sounds as if she's been so subsumed into this "American" identity that she no longer seems Russian, and even if she were to go undercover as a different nationality, she might still slip back into American as if it were her default setting.
When you learn a language, the aim is to be understood, and to sound as much as a native as possible, this includes mastering the accent.
When you learn a language, the aim is to be understood, and to sound as much as a native as possible, this includes mastering the accent. It makes no sense to be able to speak with a western accent, but choose not to.
Of course it makes sense. Hugh Laurie can speak in an American accent. He chooses not to when he's not playing House, because it's not his real accent. Same with the likes of Andrew Garfield or Henry Cavill, or conversely, Alexis Denisof and James Marsters who can sound like native Brits.
When I speak English I don't have two modes where one is that I try to sound like a native speaker and the other is me having a Swedish accent. I only have one mode and that's me trying to speak English as it's supposed to sound in one of the native speaking regions. A language isn't just the words and the grammar, there are proper pronunciations as well and it's being taught in schools.If that's what she's doing, then during her down time when she's not undercover, why not drop the accent? Why does she need to keep up the charade? If she were to take on a German or Swiss identity, does she still even think in those languages and continue to speak like that, even if say, she were with Hawkeye and they're by themselves and no-one else is listening? She's not undercover within SHIELD as far as we know.
Anyone who has "complete mastery" over a language never does that, even if they sound like a native when they're speaking it. Natasha sounds as if she's been so subsumed into this "American" identity that she no longer seems Russian, and even if she were to go undercover as a different nationality, she might still slip back into American as if it were her default setting.
"I have heard about it and yes, I would. Yeah, of course I would. I love Joss and I love those films, and I love his handle on them and how he portrayed these kinds of superheroes. I think its very different from what anyone else has done. So yeah, Id love to be in it.
It is a movie from the 23rd century.Wigs? Hair dyes? Get out of here with your futuristic science fiction gadgets!
Some have said Ronan's blonde hair would be a problem. She just spent a long while with dark red hair for a film.