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On 8/30/2020 at 10:40 AM, Elena Mastro said:

Such an interesting topic! It was great to discover it and read all the comments in it.

I'm late too.... but I just wanted to add a curiosity.

 

I'm from Italy and I can say that when Mika first started to speak Italian (let's say, the first two editions of X Factor), he spoke Italian with quite a Spanish accent (apart obviously his English accent). That was because he could speak Spanish long before he studied Italian. Then he gradually lost this Spanish vein and during the Casa Mika period (2016-2017) he learned a lot more and sounded only like a native English who was speaking Italian. Now, he's so improved over the years that when listening to interviews in Italian sometimes he sounds better than a native Italian!! Not only his pronunciation has improved a lot, but also the complexity of the syntax he uses. He's simply astonishing to us too, sometime! Being a French and Spanish speaker and having studied a little Latin, helped him a lot with his Italian. Although you will always recognize him as an English native and some French phrasing he will never lose.😆

Moreover, we have many different accents and dialects: well, he has a mild Milanese cadence (having lived and worked there a lot) and he once said he tried to pick up some Neapolitan too, for example, but not practising he quickly lost it. Now that he's living in Tuscany and working in Rome, I just hope he will pick up those accents!!! The mix of them is considered to be by convention the "standard accepted pronunciation" for the well-read Italian. 🤪😆

 

By the way, whatever the language he's speaking, I'm just so fascinated by how his brain works with languages!!!!!😄

I heard now he speaks Spanish with a really bad Italian accent, which makes me laugh because he started off with a Spanish accent when speaking Italian

Hi! I'm Jennifer, I'm Korean-American, I'm 15 and I'm awfully late but I started listening to Mika maybe.... a week ago?

I don't know, I heard elle me dit and boum boum boum on a korean tv show and they were so good I just had to look them up and that started my mika obsession dshfkjsfjd

My favorite songs are Good Wife, Staring At the Sun, L'amour dans le mauvais temps, and Tommorow

I love some of his softer songs bc they're so relaxing and me being a highschooler in Korea i am stressed ALL THE TIME about schoolwork and studying aha

I study French!! I attend a foreign language high school here in Seoul, I'm a French major! I end up watching a lot of clips ofThe Voice that he's in and pretend I'm studying French

huh idk what else to write here but I hope I can be active here and become part of the community!

((I hope this is the right place to post? If not I'm so sorry I mainly use instagram and twitter so forums are a bit confusing for me))

I keep editing bc I keep thinking of things to add- If there's an IG chat or a discord server for mika fans I'd be happy to join!!

ik i'm late but-

I'm american and I always thought his accent was generally british but ever so slightly off? It just seems like a mishmash of all different accents, with mostly a british one

it's probably bc he mostly grew up there- my parents are both korean but I only have an american accent when I speak english 

I do notice that his accent changes sometimes- I saw one video where he switched really quickly from italian to english and he had an ever so slight italian accent (which makes like zero sense but it was there) and when he does interviews in korea his accent softens a bit more towards an american one