Having just read this article written by Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter about how one of the Russian spies couldn’t hide his Russian accent makes me both laugh and wonder why the Russian government spent so much money on a spy who could not learn American English to perfection.
Learning a language is not just about imitating an accent, it’s also about becoming like the person of the target language and adapting to life as one of them.
Read on, this is a great article.
The Spy Who Came in by Amtrak: Why is Russia spying on Khrushchev’s great-granddaughter?