I don't know much about him but he was going to Webster University and Texas Tech prior to that (affiliated with Susan Polgar's SPICE program), both in the US.
Why does Georg Meier have somewhat of an accent when speaking German?
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German here.
I was listening to the German feed of the Naka-Harikrishna match (great that this is a thing). I was surprised to notice that Georg Meiers German is not that of a native-speaker. He makes (few but noticible) mistakes, the kind an english native speaker would make. Also his accent is a bit off, oddly it sounds a bit like a mix of French and English. Has he been living abroad for a long time?
a few exemples:
- "Warum jetzt nicht Springer D4 auch?", "Dame zentralisieren" are not a things a German would say. Also, "Ich erinnerte mich, dass ich einmal auf Zeit gewonnen habe" instead of "Ich erinnere mich.."
On an other note David Pruess speaks very good German.