Before you laugh and make fun of someones accent or mistakes when they speak english please take a moment to realize that you can actually learn alot about their language by their mistakes for example
When I was I denmark I noticed alot of danes say “ I will learn you ” instead of saying I will teach you because teach and learn is the same thing in danish
Also arabs when they speak english they often say “ beeebol ” instead of “ people ” or “ bebzi ” instead of “ Pepsi ” because the letter P doesn’t exist in the arabic alphabet
Theres always something to learn when you stop being an ignorant piece of shit

Japanese people often can’t pronounce the letter “l” and make the slurred r/l sound because both those letters are indistinguishable to them.

Spanish speakers who know enough English to place orders often say “un”, “de”, or “y” instead of “a”, “of”, or “and” because they’re basically the same length as those words and the meaning isn’t lost between languages. Even if you don’t speak Spanish, you can tell when they’re thinking or when they only want one of something.

Hausa people often get confused between “hair conditioner” and “air conditioner” because the letter h doesn’t exist in their language.

Foreigners’ mistakes in English are a fascinating source of linguistic study because they reveal the differences in structure and vocabulary. And phonetics (the study of sounds) is the hardest part of learning every language.

Of course, for many ESL learners, speaking perfect English is an academic/job requirement or a matter of principle, but it can be quite hard to constantly make a conscious effort to mimic the sounds that do not exist in your language - or worse still, sounds that appear deceptively similar to yours but are actually different.

For example, the Russian sound A and the English sounds in car, cup, and cat, are all completely different in quality, and it may be hard to catch the subtleties between car/cup/cat for a speaker of a language where there is no such distinction - just as an English speaker would get lost in consonants like ш, щ or ж.

Next time you mock a foreigner for speaking your language with an accent… How about you try to learn theirs?