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You can take a language class rather than have a personal instructor. Although accents are a sensitive topic so I don't remember mine going into it much.

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Language class and accent coaching are very different things.

Try learning a language where they won't understand you with a foreign accent. I assume tonal languages are like this but haven't tried learning any.

Japanese is sort of like this - you have to say foreign words the Japanese way very forcibly, to the point that Americans will think you're being racist if they hear you do it.

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