Language flow

February 11, 2007 5:48 PM  | Life in Holland | 0 Comments

So I am sitting across a fellow Californian and she turns to me and mentions on the fly (dares say) that my accent is worse than most Dutch people trying to speak English. Something to do with my intonation that does not quite fit in correctly with the flow of language, the expected way the syllables are connected in time. What gives?

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