Works for me, and I'm a native English speaker (if my Irish dialect counts as English)
But do you hear it as, for instance, someone who normally speaks Chinese or Spanish or Estonian would hear it? I have my doubts that it can take you outside your normal speech patterns enough to do that.
For instance, if I hear Estonian, the words are gibberish to me, but I have a nagging feeling of vague familiarity, probably because it comes from the same language group as Hungarian.
It's all seems very subjective:
http://metro.co.uk/2013/09/05/how-does- ... s-3950935/
‘I think British English is very beautiful,’ said Rachel Xiao, a native Mandarin speaker who has studied English for three years at language school International House London. ‘It’s very flowy. When I hear native speakers, it’s like you’re singing a song because all the words seem connected together,’ she added.
vs.
Barry O’Leary, who has taught English as a foreign language for ten years, says his students in Spain have an interesting way to describe how we speak our language.‘They say we speak like chickens,’ he revealed. ‘We don’t open our mouths; it’s just a continuous stream of sounds they’ve never heard before.’
vs. my own impression of English as being harsh and rather ugly after hearing nothing but Hungarian for a couple of weeks or more. Or even after a week in Estonia, with a background of strangers speaking Estonian.
On that note, I thought this was interesting:
https://www.fastcompany.com/3054304/the ... ages-after
The first language you learn as a baby “locks in” certain patterns in your brain and affects how you will learn other languages in future. Even if you forget that first language, it will continue to influence how you hear the sounds from other languages you may learn. Researchers from McGill University and the Montreal Neurological Institute found that different parts of the brain light up when hearing your own original mother tongue, compared with words from a subsequently learned language.
I know I inevitably pronounce new words with the accent on the first syllable. It's worse if I've only read the word, but even with spoken words, I have to train myself to stress the correct syllable.