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by mrtx01 358 days ago
I am a German native speaker fluent in English and living in Spain for a few years with not much opportunity of learning the language.

I just finished A2 in community college. Many of my classmates were native English speakers or Russians.

Most of them are elderly and Spanish is their first foreign language. My Spanish is not good enough yet to judge pronunciation, but my impression is, that the russian accent is much more pronounced when beginners speak German or English than in Spanish.

The older Brits and Irish that learned no other foreign language before have a very hard time even realising their English accent.