Reply #107: Ahh... still it is markedly different from a French accent

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many moons ago I was trained as a French translator, along with being a Spanish translator. Nuances in accents still fascinate me. I used to make pin-money in the Army a long-long time ago guessing where guys came from, even when they tried to disguise their accents. It's a "musical-ear" thing, I guess. No matter how folks try to disguise regional accents, I can still pin them to their birth region and where they now live. I can still do the same thing in Spanish, although I don't use Spanish daily, but I keep up with it. French, not so much any more, but I still recognize differences. Cajun French still throws me and I have a hard time keeping up unless I'm down there a while. It may seem odd, but I read a lot more languages than I actually speak.