Elision
One reason why people who learn English sound “foreign” is because they pronounce certain English words with too many syllables. In fact, many words that appear to have many syllables, don’t actually have so many. Take the example of “chocolate”. It appears to have four syllables: “cho” + “co” + “la” + “te”. However, in most English dialects and accents, the word only has two syllables “choc-let”.