Can't Get Rid of Your Accent

[Delarno]

When learning a new language, phonetic is one of the basic things you need to learn. But the truth, even if you are smarter than satan, you will always experience accent difficulty in a foreign language if you learn it in adulthood.
Do your best to improve your accent, but don’t hope it will completely disappear.

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

Thanks for such inspirational and motivantional words.

 

[Rover_KE]

'motivational', Boris.

 

[teechar]

I suppose "motive" and "van" are in the same vein of mobilization too! [just joking ;-)]

 

[Tdol]

But it does sound, like misunderestimate, like a word that should always have existed.

 

[mlazor]

It is hard. But if you put a lot of dedication into it, and if your second language is naturally the one you are learning, then you may end up speaking practically as a native. Some of my phonetic teachers are Argentinian, but they practically sound like natives. Like this one, for example: https://audioboom.com/boos/4380096-welcome-to-audioboom?t=0
(she is my phonetics teacher).

 

[emsr2d2]

Whilst her speech is very clear and completely understandable, any native speaker would know instantly (from that recording) that she is not a native speaker.

I can't speak for AmE, but it's incredibly difficult for a non-native speaker to pass for a native BrE speaker, even a speaker of another English variant.