Maybe the best way to learn to speak a new language…
is to first speak your own language in the new languages accent?
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except that it really isn't, a correct accent is usually the least challenging and also least important part of learning a new language
It might help, but it also puts you at a very high risk of being perceived as racist.
No, that doesn't help
Are you doing mushrooms before your showers again?
Is there any other way?
learning to change/control your natural movement of your tongue helps a lot more
The first step to learn a new language is to break your tongue: listen and struggle to repeat. Don't use somebody elses strugglings in your own language for that, it's merely a hint of vocal chains they are unused to. You have to stumble yourself the opposite way.
Might work for relatively similar languages that already share a lot of words via latin, greek or loanwords, but good luck getting anywhere with east-asian or african languages like that.
If you’re trying to learn Dutch from English, it might just work
I'm not fluent in second language or anything, but I think I have learned the most when immersed, like I visited the Philippines for a month and started to pick up some Tagalog. Or during two years of grad school, I had a lot of Nepali friends and slowly started to understand more Neplai words and phrases