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Non-Americans; do you have trouble understanding spoken American English?
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10-12-2009, 02:22 AM
Or a certain American accent?
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10-12-2009, 02:24 AM
I'm American and sometiems I have trouble understanding North-Eastern accents. What's really funny, is some people have trouble understanding my Texas drawl.
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10-12-2009, 02:29 AM (This post was last modified: 10-12-2009, 02:29 AM by Elektrisk.)
(10-12-2009, 02:24 AM)Grizzly Wrote: I'm American and sometiems I have trouble understanding North-Eastern accents. What's really funny, is some people have trouble understanding my Texas drawl.

I know what you mean. Especially people from Boston or New Jersey.
And I don't understand that, either. I have European friends who are like, "I can't understand people with Southern accents." I suppose they just haven't had exposure to them, as we haven't to northeastern accents. Well, I haven't; the only other state I've been to is Texas.
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10-12-2009, 02:49 AM
Well I don't have any problems understanding spoken english, but for some reason I hate it when people speak with British accents.
And I freaking love the Irish accent.

It's just sometimes I have a problem realising that a person is speaking to me on english, because I speak few languages fluent without accent, and I simply start answering in the language that's first on my mind.
Sometimes it's funny but in most cases people are like wtf.
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10-12-2009, 03:39 AM
I don't generally have any trouble with American accents, I suppose Australian accents aren't that different. Sometimes I wonder how you guys get phrases mixed up, for example I hear Americans say "I could care less" when they mean "I could't care less".
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10-12-2009, 04:11 AM
You know what accent I find hot? A nice british accent on a woman :o

And of course, a little southern twang lol

Nothing beats a southern girl.
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10-12-2009, 07:49 AM
If you can understand a scottish farmer then i need you to translate for me the next time i go there. Big Grin All American accents i can follow, Irish to a degree and Welsh, pure Welsh no way in hell. Big Grin haha.
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10-12-2009, 07:53 AM
No issues for me.
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10-12-2009, 08:54 AM
I'm Australian, I don't have much trouble.
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10-12-2009, 09:47 AM
I'm Swedish. I can't understand anything you Americans are saying...
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