>Funny, I also speak English with an accent too. :-)
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>I started with German in High School with a teacher who grew up in the Texas Hill Country with a grandmother who absolutely refused to speak English. Understood it, could read and write it, but refused to speak it.
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>Before German, I'd taken Spanish in school and was pretty good with that and can still understand quite a bit, but every time I try to speak Spanish, German comes out.

Boy, do I understand that. I know a little each of French, Spanish and Hebrew, and whenever I try to form a sentence in any one of them, my brain puts together a mixture of them.

Tamar