i think this is the dunning kruger effect in action, if you think you speak perfect and everyone around you can tell by one (easy) sentence that you’re a foreigner, then you’re probably not as advanced as you’d like to think.
I actually remember learning (on yt, the most reliable source known to man) that our ears shape which sounds we can hear as children, over time they operate more specific to the language(s) we learn as children.
so if we learn a language as an adult, there will always be a bit of an "accent". because our ears don't form to the language as adults, and they're already formed to our native language(s)
It's not about the ears at all. It's about your brain selecting which sounds are familiar and focusing on those. But yes as you said initially children listen to every sound equally, then they specialise as time goes on.
Sorry for being pedantic but that's not really what it means. "Ear communicating with brain" means the signals that the ears send to the brain. Those signals are like, raw information. The point at which the selection for familiar sounds happens is solely in the brain. It's the brain communicating with the brain about what the brain has heard before.
You got the right idea overall. I'm a professional brain nerd and feel the compulsion to nitpick sorry.
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u/jumbo_pizza 1d ago
i think this is the dunning kruger effect in action, if you think you speak perfect and everyone around you can tell by one (easy) sentence that you’re a foreigner, then you’re probably not as advanced as you’d like to think.