How come a lot of Mexican-Americans can switch accents back and forth like total pros?

Where someone’s speaking very normal-sounding English, and then they switch into Spanish and it’s like the most Mexican-sounding Spanish ever. The accent is so Mexican that it outMexicans the Mexican actors on telenovelas. Don’t most people get a strong foreign accent when they speak their second language? Heck I was raised in a bilingual environment and I’m terrible at my parents’ language.

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