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Originally Posted by OctobersBlackRose
I was going through the lesson on how to pronounce ä, ö, and ü, and on a couple of them (ä [long]), and ü they gave an example word (in English) and ask you to say them with either lips spread apart, or with pursed lips. So it's a learning curve, it'll take awhile for me to learn how to do the different mouth and lip movements to say German words. I don't think I'll pick up an accent though, I can't mimic accents to save my life, I tried with a British accent and it didn't work.
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Well, you sort of will, though, paradoxically. I mean, the way you pronounce "ich" and "-ig" is an accent - likely to be called "the standard German" - and it'll be heavily overshadowed by your foreign, English accent, but still... Okay, I've had an inclination to look into this topic a little more, and apparently when you're a student, picking up any pronunciation other than the one repsented by the official German dictionary Duden, would be considered wrong by many native speakers (pedants, as far as I'm concerned)... So maybe you won't be learning an "accent" after all.