I've told this story before but a lad I know was teaching himself French, and got to a natural ceiling where he really had to immerse himself in the culture and environment to really spread his language wings.

He did the odd weekend over the channel into France once or twice a year, but decided to watch French media in the interim - films; series; music etc.

He wanted to formalise his knowledge with a qualification, so booked himself an exam and did his oral exam with a video call to a French native.

She said "I can't fault your French, but you speak like a drug dealer from Paris"

High praise, if you ask me.

Well, how do you native speakers think learning English is done?

I tell you:
You pick some English media you like, listen to it, slip into the roles you like most and emulate those.
And, yes, one of those roles has been Peter Griffin for me.
But as a Star Trek Fan, most of my imitated manners of speaking have been taken from some ST series. So sometimes I speak like Captain Picard or Garak from DS9.
Oh, and also: Friends. Learned a lot from that and often imitated especially Chandler...

I mean, Hideo Kojima is basically the less cringey, somewhat classier version of this concept.

He emulates a bit higher brow elements of American culture in his work, although, initially, Snake was basically just a fan fiction version of Snake Plissken from Escape from New York.

Maybe not higher brow? Less cringey, more campy?

On the flip side of this concept, I'm maybe a very mild otaku at this point (compared to what I see these days)... but also, I was a karateka for over 10 years, so, whenever I try and actually say anything in Japanese... I kind of just naturally take on a very gutteral, based in the solarplexus, way of speaking, and the result is my voice drops an octave, as compared to my normal register in English.

Osu-!

Sometimes I will amuse myself by singing in English, sometimes, I'll just do:

Omae wa mou shindeiru

...untill I giggle. Hahaha!

You tell me which is worse. Speaking no English at all or speaking Howard Cossell?

Foreigners learning Russian often speak as a mix of 19th century nobles and 90s mobsters.

Constantly falls down in the classic family guy pose.

Very relevant Cumtown illustrated

Ah, wicked