>>In école - where's the accent?
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>Because of that ambiguity professional speech teachers in the US use "stress" or "emphasis."
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>So, with Ecole, they'd say that there's an accent on the E, but the stress is on the second syllable.
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>It gets even hairier when some tells you that with a foreign accent.

And then it turns out that the person's accent is actually perfect, it's that they pronounce the r the scottish way, every w as v, every th as t etc...