http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...161826.htm

"In conversation, we often imitate each other's speech style and may even change our accent to fit that of the person we're talking to. A recent study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that imitating someone who speaks with a regional or foreign accent may actually help you understand them better."

Experience has shown that it helps them to understand you as well!

I read this today too on lifehacker!

Here's the JP version: http://www.lifehacker.jp/2010/12/101210i...ccent.html

adoette Wrote:Experience has shown that it helps them to understand you as well!

Haha sometimes my dad does accents back at people who don't speak English as their first language... I wonder if they get offended...