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If you hadnt posted this I was going to haha
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My ex learned English as a second language and was fluent but she had a very hard time with any heavy accent.
My wife too. She grew up in Taiwan and moved to America in middle school.
She can’t understand understand British or Australian accents, where I can hear the differences between the two.
She literally can’t understand Indian accents. It’s like they are not speaking English at all.
I’m a native speaker and have absolutely no issue whatsoever with Australian and British accents, but people with a heavy Indian accent still sound like they’re not speaking English to me.
It doesn’t help that Indian English often still uses a lot of colonial terms, like Capsicum instead of bell pepper. That being said most Indians in the US will adjust to the local vocabulary pretty quickly.
I think we were exposed to more Brit and Aus influences. Thinking Steve Erwin, Crocodile Dundee, and a bunch of British actors.
For Indian speaking influence, nope. Even today, the only exposure to Indian accents is at work and even then, its limited.
You can get better at understanding accents by listening to them more, so yeah, that’s probably why.
I absolutely LOVE Indian accents, especially with a very sing-song speech pattern.
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Sure you can!
If there were a phonetic phrase book like this, I might begin to learn their exotic language.
A southern accent? That doesn’t sound like a Kent accent to me?
Maybe he means southern Canada??
Many planets have a south pole
Some years ago when We were visiting my dad in Mississippi, my husband (Canadian) and I ,(American who moved to Canada) went to dinner and I had make the order because he just couldn’t get a handle on the deep southern accent hahaha
They got all those computers down south, doncha know?
Trying to watch Tiger King without subtitles
Matt Mitchell of SEC Roll Call fame!
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Reminds me of a time that I told my boss the “text dick taking” was not working so well. We had a good laugh about that one later.
