What is the best way to pick up an accent?
I am learning French and though I am able to pronounce individual words I find it difficult to maintain the accent when speaking sentences. Does listening to French music or watching movies help?

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Listen to native speakers a lot and keep repeating after theme like listening to dialogue between two persons and repeat the speech of one of theme, the pronounciation comes by practicing not only listning, you have to exercise the muscles of your mouth that you don't use usually in your mother language.

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Pay attention to dialogues and how individual words are said. That's what I do about English. I discover things like the words "this year" are not pronounce [dis yir] in Devon where I live, but more like [di SHyir]. The same apply to French. It's not all in the spelling.

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Yes those help, but spending enough time around natives will help to. Among practice the language frequently and via immersion.

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