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What do American accents sound like to people from other countries?( New York) Do we sound
"hard"? For instance, the British accent sounds so lovely & sophisticated, the French accent sounds so smooth & romantic.
Any way to describe what we sound like?
Thanks!

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The main characteristic of the American accent of the English language, which differentiates it from the other accents of the language present in other countries, is the simplification it makes of the sounds, that is, a notable reduction of the Anglo-Saxon characteristic in its pronunciation, to adopt a pronunciation much more closely related to Latin pronunciation (presumably caused by Hispanic and Italian immigration in the 1800s and 1900s).

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