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Please stop trying to sound native

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Hello there,


Can we retire one expression? "I want to sound like a native speaker."


Why? Which native speaker? Someone from Manchester? Texas? Edinburgh? Sydney? Dublin?


There isn't one magical thing called a "native accent".


And more importantly: you don't need one.

I'm much more interested in something else.


Intelligibility.


Can people understand you easily?

Can you understand them?

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