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Here are the next two sentences uttered by the 'Princess of Liechtenstein':
"We first met here in the hotel three years ago and then we met last year at the party and that is when we really fell in love. It is a very special place for us."
1. To give first a German tint the actress should have pronounced the vowel with more lip-rounding.
2. The rise on met is definitely un-German.
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3. The r-sound in three is of a velar type typical of many a German speaker of English.
4. On then there's a fall-rise, which only an advanced German speaker of English would use.
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