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Do we? I remember watching movies like Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels when I was younger and never having a clue what they were talking about.
Well, part of that is owed to the fact they were basically using a speaking code, Cockney.
Really never had an issue.
They even have a part with translated subtitles... You could've at least chosen Snatch for your reference for Brad Pitt's Pikey impersonation.
Speak for yourself! I'm horrible at overcoming accents that aren't from my zone.
As an Australian, it's Irish accents that I struggle with the most.
Scottish I can deal with, probably from watching shows like Still Game and Burnistoun.
Most other UK accents are not to difficult to understand.
One odd thing, I was watching an USA wildlife documentary that was set in South Africa. I noticed they put forced subtitles on when ever the South African's spoke in English. I found that bizarre as I've never had any trouble understanding when South Africans speak English.
I’ve seen subtitles on both Aussie and nz English in US shows
Moved from south Florida to North Carolina and I could barely understand anyone that didnt live in a city. Took years to pick up, with weekly tests of my skills during Sunday schools :')
That's... simply not true at all, not only is a common joke how native speakers from a typical remote area are easily unintelligible to geographically close cosmopolitan native speakers, but me, as a non native, have problems to understand most of the accents in English if I have not been exposed enough to them (skill issue probably, but I found it quite common in European English speaking environments)
A definite exception would be the Newfie accent from eastern Canada. People in the same country cannot understand them.
Same with Quebecois!
We were taught Parisienne French in school in Canada even in my French Immersion school.
What is spoken in Quebec is so different they're effectively different languages, outside of academic or linguistic analysis.
I excelled in French as a kid and that's why I went to immersion school. Imagine my shock when I moved to QC for 4 years in my early 20's... I could have a great conversation with the dude that literally came from France but neither of us could communicate in either direction with our French co-workers lol
How are you with New Brunswick French? I find it significantly easier to understand than Quebec French. Partially I think it's because they speak slower in New Brunswick.
I can't comment on that because I've never been out that far but I do live in Winnipeg and we have a large french community ... and I can say that I can understand and communicate in French with everybody here.
I have distant cousins out that way due to one of my ancestors having 2 families at the same time.
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