Scottish?

Irish?

Aussie?

American Bostonian?

I find it funny when movies spoken in English are subtitled in English--which happens occasionally in the states. I admit though that I would have found subtitles useful when watching The Town.

Ill go with a welsh accent. I really need to listen well to follow.

Who was the chick that Simon Cowell fired from the X Factor before it even airs here in the states? They showed a clip of her talkiing, and I couldn't understand a word she said, and she was speaking English! I find that Asians can be quite difficult to understand if they have thick accents, but of course, I digress. That wasn't your question, huh? I think Aussie's can be tricky.

Shyra said:

I think Aussie's can be tricky.

You aren't alone apparently considering the first Mad Max film was dubbed with American accents when it was released in the cinema in the U.S.

West Indian ! If you can call that English !

Serious said:

Hershe said:

Serious said:

West Indian ! If you can call that English !

I would freeze whenever my ex-husband would talk about people in public while standing near them. He would say, they don't understand me, and I guess that's true because he never got his face punched in.

Where is he from?

It is so hard for me to understand it, especially as English is not my first language.

Serious said:

Hershe said:

Serious said:

Where is he from?

It is so hard for me to understand it, especially as English is not my first language.

Sangre Grande. (sp) Yeah, he would remind me that I could understand and that's why I thought others could too.

Are you talking about SG, T&T? That is the nearest big city to where my bf lives .

Serious said:

Hershe said:

Serious said:

Are you talking about SG, T&T? That is the nearest big city to where my bf lives .

Yes.

Hey that's crazy, I go there all the time when I am overthere and I have wonderful friends who live there . And they are hard to understand because of their accents .

Because I work in a very international environment, I have become exceptionally good at understanding most everyone.

I recently had some issue understanding a Nigerian student and a Korean. The problem with the Nigerian student was, aside from his accent, his grammar was perfect and he spoke in long, fluid sentences with quite complex vocabulary at blazingly fast speeds. It took me about 2 weeks, and I now I understand him and that accent quite well.

As for Koreans, they hate to speak English here, so it's not so much there accent as it is their pronunciation---the simply don't pronounce words correctly.

Thais....oh lawd, they are deficient in just about every aspect of English you can think of, but I'm half Thai so I have never had a problem understanding them.

Oh, and I can't understand shit Souljia Boi(spelling?) says when he's talking. And he's American!

Mumblers or those who don't enunciate are hard regardless of accent; and thick Scottish brogues.

I have a friend from Pakistan who speaks in a mixture of English and German. He mixes the languages within one sentence. One word in English, the next 2 in German, the next in English and so on. And he speaks very fast and mumbles with a pretty low voice with a Pakistani accent in both German and English, so hard to understand.

Serious said:

Hershe said:

Serious said:

Hey that's crazy, I go there all the time when I am overthere and I have wonderful friends who live there . And they are hard to understand because of their accents .

You'll get it someday. And listen for it to spring up from your own voice someday too.

I already start to make some "mistakes" they make : !

the weegies

sextonseven said:

ZombieKitten said:

sextonseven said:

You aren't alone apparently considering the first Mad Max film was dubbed with American accents when it was released in the cinema in the U.S.

You don't seem to have any trouble with it!

Most of the time, no. In the Bride Flight movie though, when the Dutchie started speaking Kiwi, I was all "What???"

I actually started this thread with you in mind and your problem with Brendan Gleeson. How much of this trailer do you understand?

Comming from the u.k its easy 2 do all of them xcept No4 what the hell lingo is that???

Serious said:

West Indian ! If you can call that English !

My ex sister-in-law is West Indian (from Grenada). When she would get angry it was virtually impossible for anyone to understand her...except my brother I guess .

But she spoke perfect English and was very understandable when she was calm.

sextonseven said:

ZombieKitten said:

You don't seem to have any trouble with it!

Most of the time, no. In the Bride Flight movie though, when the Dutchie started speaking Kiwi, I was all "What???"

I actually started this thread with you in mind and your problem with Brendan Gleeson. How much of this trailer do you understand?

that looks quite funny! But I'd need it subtitled for sure, as soon as there is noise and music over the talking I can't make out all the words, especially if I can't see the lips moving

I can probably cope with the Bostonian accent though I'll get the town and let you know how I go!

Honestly, none of them. And I'm solid with Indian (love that one, actually), Spanish, French, Italian - all of Europe, really. But for some reason there is a certain type Asian accent that just leaves me looking at the person speaking like they didn't even use English. Its something I've tried to work on, too, since I often work with people who speak that way. For whatever reason I just can't get my brain to process it on the first pass. I have to ask them to repeat themselves a lot. But its only a certain type of Asian accent, not all of them.

You don't have to listen to overseas accents to find some hard to understand ones. There are some hard to understand accents right here in the States. We get phone calls from Northerners all the time at work and they talk so fast. They talk ninety miles a minute. Sometimes, I just have to stop and tell them...."Hey, slow down. You're talking too fast. We talk much slower down here".

The bayou swampland region of the United States.

New Orleans and its' surrounding region...one of the reality shows they're doing there right now actually uses sub-titles

Shaolin325 said:

Serious said:

West Indian ! If you can call that English !

My ex sister-in-law is West Indian (from Grenada). When she would get angry it was virtually impossible for anyone to understand her...except my brother I guess .

But she spoke perfect English and was very understandable when she was calm.

I can understand my bf okay most of the times now, but when he talks to other locals and not me it is still hard.

Ottensen said:

The bayou swampland region of the United States.

New Orleans and its' surrounding region...one of the reality shows they're doing there right now actually uses sub-titles

where are you from originally aunt Ottie?

Ottensen said:

The bayou swampland region of the United States.

New Orleans and its' surrounding region...one of the reality shows they're doing there right now actually uses sub-titles

ON German TV they sometimes (not often though) use subtitles when Austrians speak German .

Serious said:

Ottensen said:

The bayou swampland region of the United States.

New Orleans and its' surrounding region...one of the reality shows they're doing there right now actually uses sub-titles

ON German TV they sometimes (not often though) use subtitles when Austrians speak German .

what about the swiss german speakers?

ZombieKitten said:

Serious said:

ON German TV they sometimes (not often though) use subtitles when Austrians speak German .

what about the swiss german speakers?

I can hardly understand one word when they talk. When I was in Switzerland I understood their French better at times than their "German" and my French isn't good at all . Germans hardly understand them either, Austrians are a lot easier for them to understand.