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Everyone has an accent that tells where they are coming from. People who think they don’t have an accent simply don’t know that they have one.

Not true. I'm a French native and I've been fooled both ways: by native speakers having an accent and by non-native using idioms and tone flawlessly.

Some people are just masters at imitating tones and accents.

Or so the Germans would have us believe.