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GUEST,matt milton Singing to native speakers (30) RE: Singing to native speakers 12 Jun 17


Depends not just on how good your accent and pronunciation is, but also what the song is, what the mood of the song is, etc. For instance, I speak pretty good French and my accent is pretty good, so I might perhaps risk singing a comic song or a simple love song at a French singaround, if I ever found myself at one. But I think if I were to try to sing something tragic or overly serious I imagine I would probably sound foolish at best... or slightly grotesque at worst.

You just have to imagine, in your head, a song you deeply love that is very poignant or moving or chilling or disturbing or in any way emotionally intense, being sung in heavily accented English; then you'll have your answer.


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