I'm a native English (TL) speaker, but have a Czech parent. I was homeschooled for a long time, and never noticed having an accent. However, for years now (I wanna say I first noticed it happening 8 years ago), people have, even after a very quick conversation, asked me what country I'm from. It happens so frequently I stopped counting.

I've recorded myself speaking on plenty of occasions, and have never noticed an accent in my speech. I want to kill the accent, but at this point I have no idea how to if I can't even spot the accent in my own speech.

Again, I was born, and have lived my entire life, in the US. What can I do?

Edit: A voice recording here: https://voca.ro/1ibIcUafaPsF

Edit 2: Thank you everyone for the amazing advice and kind words -- I think I probably need to go do some thinking about why this accent bothers me so much.

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Pessoal, comecei a estudar inglês usando Comprehensible Input e estou meio perdido sobre como aplicar a técnica na prática.

Por exemplo, assistindo a canais como o Volca English, vocês costumam apenas assistir tentando entender o contexto? Ou param para anotar frases que parecem úteis, repetem, revisam depois etc.?

Queria saber como vocês realmente aplicam o I'm brushing my teeth no dia a dia e o que funciona para vocês. Se puderem dar exemplos de como é uma sessão de estudo, ajudaria bastante.

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I was looking for a platform to gain vocabulary in English (TL) and German (TL). Langeek looked useful actually. But most features are paid and it's cheap, so I think I will purchase soon. If any of you used, how is your experiences in Langeek? Do you think it's worth purchasing? You could recommend any other platforms too for my aim.

Has anyone here been using Airlearn (TL)?

I enjoy learning Spanish on Airlearn. I really like how detailed and organized the lessons are, although I mute my phone while studying because the app’s pronunciation sounds really, really weird. 😭

After checking the Tagalog course, though, I started doubting the app’s accuracy. The Tagalog lessons are just horrible!!! Aside from the incorrect pronunciation, many of the lessons contain grammatical errors and culturally inappropriate or unnatural language. I’ve lost count of how many slides I’ve flagged because of inaccuracies.

Now I’m wondering: Are there any native Spanish speakers here who have tried checking the Spanish lessons on Airlearn? How accurate are they?

And what about Portuguese? Japanese?

I’d really love to hear from native speakers who have actually gone through the lessons and can tell me how reliable the content is.

P.S. I'm still exploring different apps. So far, I like Busuu for the Spanish pronunciation. For Duolingo, I just don't like it a bit because I'm a sytematic learner. If you could recommend other apps, I'd be so thankful!

Before, I translated a word and used flashcards to learn vocabulary. The problem I found is that I learn only one translation of the word. Sometimes the word has other meanings, sometimes it has no equivalent word in my language, or the translation is a full sentence not only a word, and sometimes it is not common and people use other words instead.

So instead of asking only for the translation, I ask for the full picture: the meanings in sentences, the degree of usage, the similar words, ...

This is the prompt if you want to try it. Just change the source and target language (TL):

$SourceLanguage = French
$TargetLanguage = English

Each time I will write a word in $SourceLanguage. Give me images that express the word. Then give me the meanings of each word in $TargetLanguage, and the degree of usage of each meaning with yellow stars, with an example of usage for each meaning. And at the end, tell me how much the word is used in daily life, and if there are other similar words (with how common each word is, and the difference between it and the original word). Add any other information you see useful.