Parlez-vous Francais?

Think about this....I relearning English and I sound French!
Okay, my name is French and my father was French, so my blood is partly French.
But, other than the French that I learned in school, I don't speak French.
Everyone thinks I'm French, because my accent.
Weird, eh?

I'm happy with my French accent, I don't understand why I'm relearning English but sound French??

I've heard that people relearning English language can pick up an accent....sometimes British, French. But, why?

Maybe, we slow-down our letters to pronounce the word?? I don't know!

Any speech-language pathologists care to post an answer?