Robert Nikic: Why I Don't Have an Accent
Meet Robert Nikic · On with Mario Lopez · 0:25
Mario Lopez can't detect an accent. Robert Nikic explains: from the Balkans, he spoke German first, then learned English and forgot the German.
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All right, so, Robert, I just want to kick things off. But where are you from, first of all? Originally? Yeah. The Balkans. So, you got ex-Yugoslavia: Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro. Oh, wow. You don't have any kind of an accent, I detect. I don't, no. Everyone said that to me. So, you just grew up speaking English? You know, when we came overseas, right, I spoke German, and then I just naturally learned English and forgot German, so.
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