I’ll pronounce Spanish words in an American accent, but using Spanish pronunciation. For example, if I say “I would love a quesadilla, but I don’t have any queso or tortillas.” I’ll pronounce the “que” as “kay” instead of “kway” and the “illa” as “eeya” instead of “ila”, but in an American accent. The exception being if I’m pronouncing a place name, then I’ll pronounce it with English pronunciation. Like “Los Angeles”, I pronounce as “loss anjiless”.

Depends on how good I actually am at pronouncing the original version, how different the original version is from the current language and if I assume that my conversation partner is going to understand it. Also, I tend to have trouble with switching accents quickly. On the other hand, figuring out how to correctly butcher a pronounciation isn’t that easy if you’re not a native speaker of the butchering language.

I’m a native German living in Germany, English is generally fine, i.e. most Germans know English well enough that they aren’t going to be confused by a correct English pronounciation and my pronounciation isn’t that bad by German standards. Other languages can get dicey, though. TBH I tend to avoid pronouncing words that are neither German nor English and are hard to understand if you don’t know much about the language - e.g. “burrito” isn’t so different that Germans wouldn’t understand the Spanish pronounciation, but many French words are not very obvious if you don’t know French well, plus my pronounciation could be bad enough that it would even throw off native French speakers.

If I was in an anglophone country ordering German food, I’d probably pick the German pronounciation, because I’m not that good at guessing how anglophones in a specific area pronounce German words, and who knows how that would even come out if I try that with my German-accented English. But I’d expect that most of the servers don’t know any German and have trouble understanding me. I’d probably just say the numbers if it’s a numbered menu.

I say burrito the American-English way because it’s also a word in English. But if I say “arepa” I say it the way it’s pronounced in Spanish.

This trend of pronouncing it the way I first heard extends to dialects, too: Words that I first learned in an Argentine context I tend to pronounce in the Argentine way (eg. the letter elle makes a “zh” or “ĵ” sound) versus the rest of my Spanish which is more (central) Mexican.

I have often irritated or confused acquaintances when using famous quotations or phrases from Latin, which I pronounce in a Classical, rather than Italianate manner (eg. hard Cs and soft Vs).

It’s kind hard to write clearly in print about how we pronounce things, huh?

I use the language that I think my interlocutor would prefer. If I don’t know, then I default to the language of the social context, unless I specifically want to practise a language at that moment. If I want to practise, then I ask first.

I’m Chinese-American. Primary language is English, I don’t speak Cantonese very well, and I don’t really speak Mandarin (but both are based on the same language system so its not that hard to convert from Cantonese). If I were to go to a Chinese restaurant, I’m gonna speak, in this order: Cantonese, then its Mandarin, then English, but most of the staff probably speaks Cantonese. I’m not gonna be like “I want a 燒賣, thank you”, like… that sounds so out of place lmfao, just speak the whole thing in the same language.

Depends on the person I’m talking to. I adapt based on how they (or how I assume they) pronounce it.

It depends.

Let’s say I’m trying to ask an acquaintance their phone number so I can add them on WhatsApp or Signal. Honestly it’s kind of ridiculous to use the proper pronunciation of Whatsapp im Brazil, so I use the popular way (it’s something like “oah-tchi-zap”).

Unless I’m actually speaking with someone in their mother language I just default to the Brazilian version of the name. Otherwise I will try and match their pronunciation - it’s nice to train and also I think it’s polite.

Depends , if I’m speaking with my wife we interchange and speak whatever comes in the moment and understand each other. In other countries we use the native language if we know it.

With friends it depends if everyone in the group can speak the language or not.

Of the language I am using. Trying to fit in correct pronunciation sounds weird.

Fun fact, just this week I realized that “hemendex” is literally “ham and eggs” together when I’ve seen it written on a menu as “hamandeggs”. I am fucking dumb.

But hey, there’s also jomaha, jomaso (You’re my heart, You’re my soul): https://youtu.be/snm_GTD9-Q8?t=25

The slavic lossy compression of English.

Usually like the language of origin unless I’m around people that do not speak fluently or are not looking to learn.

For example, in Chile a lot of people mix English words in their day to day use and pronounce it incorrectly so I pronounce it the same way and go along with it.

I never pronounce words in my own language differently as I think its a missed opportunity on teaching someone a little bit. Which is also a thing I appreciate other people do to me as well.

It depends. “Burrito” is commonly used in English so it would be a bit silly to trill the ‘rr’. For words that aren’t as common in English it’s more likely to be the Spanish pronunciation. Place names generally too.

I’m not very bilingual but I grew up with English and have spent a few months in Latin America.

I noticed that in English I now say Mexico the Spanish way when I’m with local people, but the English way when I’m visiting friends in the US. I always say it the Spanish way in Spanish, and don’t think I use any regional accents.

Trilingual. I generally use the accent of the language I’m speaking, or I purposefully pronounce it as horribly as I can because idgaf

I generally go by either what the person I’m speaking to is likely to prefer or whichever is easier to pronounce, assuming I think it won’t cause confusion for the listener.

Depends who I am talking with. I use the pronunciation of my interlocutors language even if it sounds wrong in it’s original language. Mainly because it’s fun to speak like a weird movie accent.

So if I am with a Mexican I will say “Burrito.”

And if I am with an English speaker I will say “Beau- rhee -toe!”