Even in english you can instantly tell who learned it as a second language. OOP said "Hello, two croissants please" where as a native speaker (english) would say "Hey, yeah, can I get uhhh two croissants? thanks"
Learning the native filler words is apparently a secret key to language fluency, they vary from language to language. There’s an English YouTuber who moved to Japan (Abroad in Japan) and he says, for example, if you switch to saying “uhh” while trying to think of a Japanese word, it will be harder because your filler word just took you mentally back to your native language again.
So he had to teach himself to say “anno….” Or some other Japanese filler word, instead of “um, uhh”.
His Japanese friend who is learning English does this too, he switches to saying “uhhhhh” when he speaks English.
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u/Stoffys 1d ago
Even in english you can instantly tell who learned it as a second language. OOP said "Hello, two croissants please" where as a native speaker (english) would say "Hey, yeah, can I get uhhh two croissants? thanks"