Absolutely. When living in Korea, I started speaking an accented English and wouldn’t realize I was doing it until I spoke to my family back home. My Korean friends told me that they’d forget I didn’t really speak Korean because my English sounded like them speaking English. It was wholly unintentional, but I am…

The thing is, if you live in another country long enough, you subconsciously start to mimic the intonation and phrasing of the people where you are. A lot of people think it’s an affectation but it’s just a thing your ear does. It happened to me when I lived in England for a while - my American friends and family…