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What is an ability to imitate foreign accents called?

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#1 (permalink) Fri Feb 20, 2009 16:44 pm What is an ability to imitate foreign accents called?

I bet it must have a name, right? Does anyone know what it is called? And I don't mean English speakers imitating f.eg. French people speaking English and their accent, I mean non- native English speakers who sound just as if they were, to the point that it is unrecongnizable by the natives.

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