What's really strange is to hear a foriegn accent in another language. For example, someone from France will have a noticable French accent when speaking English. But they'll also have it when speaking a language other than French or English. Say, Chinese for example.

I spent a semester in China learning Chinese. I lived in the foriegn students dorm with folks from all over the world. A lot of them didn't speak English so if we wanted to talk it would have to be in our butchered Chinese. It was hilarious hearing all these people speaking Chinese but with a French, English, Japanese. etc. accent. And, you would know what the accent was when they were speaking Chinese as easily as if they were speaking English.