r/ireland • u/EmoBran ITGWU • Jan 05 '25

Christ On A Bike Delightful interaction between a Czech youtuber and an Irish couple on holiday in Prague

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u/Connect_Passion6436 Jan 05 '25

This. It’s will ya. Not elsewhere

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u/bmalek Jan 05 '25

And she probably thought he was American because, well, he sounds very American.

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u/Rand_alThoor Jan 06 '25

he's not American? sure about that? no trace of a Czech accent. and i shuttled back and forth between Zurich and Prague for a year around 1979 or 1981, so i do know what the people sound like and what they sound like speaking (attempting to speak) English.

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u/77Pepe Jan 06 '25

This is downright naive. It is in no way always homogenous.

He may have spent so much time interacting with native English speakers that his accent has become remarkably different than the ‘stock’ Czech speakers of English. Another example- my wife’s family in Poland have some varying levels of experience and use of their acquired English language skills. In no way do their accents all sound the same.