Comment by pmontra

Probably this proves the point of the article. I'm Italian and the accent of the lady labelled as French/Italian sounds somewhat German to me: no Italian would stop between syllables like that. On the other side I can imagine why that could sound Italian to English speakers. Italian has very few vowel sounds compared to English and for us is hard to learn all the intermediate vowels, for example between a and e. The lady seems to have lost them too. I wonder if she can learn them back.