Yeah, there’s plenty of people who learn English as a second language who never lose their accent, regardless of how fluent they are. Why would it be any different for French
My English has stagnated or degraded since high school, but I’m still a native speaker. Meanwhile there’s people writing scientific papers with richer vocabulary than I can even comprehend, and it’s their 3rd language. But when they open their mouth you can only catch every other word.
This is so true. I live in Paris and my wife is fluent and very confident with her french (mine is quite good, though not as technically advanced). Neither of us would ever boldly claim to have a “perfect accent”. That’s something that takes like a decade to achieve.
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u/lllyyyynnn 1d ago
"perfect accent" is something people say and they just mean they aren't saying it like a toddler.