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Posted February 6, 2023
6w7
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I want to ask a native English speaking person .. here? Are you even a native English if you speak with a British accent that you understand or miss sometimes
For me my problem: I try to speak and listen to British English accent, it's very difficult and I sometimes don't understand they speak very fast 😅 and always need them to repeat again until it's clear..
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1mo
8w7
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Don't learn from someone from Liverpool then 😂😂😂
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1mo
6w7
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😂😂 so that why I want to learn it.. to solve my problem cuz interesting for me haha, the way speak to u now🙈
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8w7
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@Rettaly ohhh don't learn from me, im from Yorkshire. We have our own words.
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1mo
6w7
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@Andy init! Reight good some of em lol
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We have different idioms, etc., but no issues understanding 🤓 Not for me, anyway!
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1mo
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Can you give examples what is the idoms u meant??
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1mo
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@Rettaly An idiom is basically a popular saying. Usually, they don't make much sense to people unfamiliar with the culture. For example, "Break a leg!" actually means "Good luck!" A non-native speaker might think whoever said that was being really mean.
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We have the same issue going the other way other languages are spoken really quickly you just don't realise because your always speaking it. And there's no real British Accent, just Dialects. Just where I am now if I were to go say 10 miles in Any direction the accent changes. 30 miles it's almost completely different again. By 100 miles your essentially in a different country 😂
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Don't worry, most of us native speakers start to lose the abikity to comprehend what people are saying once you go past Birmingham 😂😂😂 don't even get me started on Glasgow lads, they're a nightmare and a half, it sounds like a totally different language . There are almost a hundred different accents in UK so don't feel so bad 😂😂
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I'd say English is the weirdest language. With almost every other language, they have specific pronunciation rules. There may even be some tone marks to indicate what kind of emphasis to put on some sounds. But with English, people pronounce things however they want; usually influenced by where they learned it. Amazing - uh-may-zing Amazon - ah-muh-zon Animal - ah-nih-mul Apparel - uh-pehr-ul Why is the letter A so inconsistent and have so many different sounds? Non-native speakers usually play by the rules they were taught of their own language, and that's what causes accents. The happy hippo eats the hamburger. Filipino accent: Da hoppee heepoh eets da homboor ger (Rs roll through the tongue) Indian accent: similar to Filipino accent, but up and down tones French accent: Zee uppee eepoo eetz zee omberger Actually... lemme upload a voice message, sponsored by Google Translate. 1) American 2) Filipino 3) Punjabi 4) French 5) Vietnamese 6) Japanese 7) Russian
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I understand your problem! Don't worry about asking to repeat something, because we do it to each other too. 🤣🤣🤣 Learning English as a secondary language is harder than learning it as a first, and listening to it is even worse, because of the variety of dialects within the accent. Don't feel bad or embarrassed. We know it's difficult and any decent person will be patient with you about it. 😁
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1mo
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To be honest with you, it don't matter where you go. It depends what accents and it depends if your southern or northern or west of or east of the United States everybody has their own language. I call it broken English
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It's easy unless people use slang words. Which in different regions are different. And then there are accents which could make it worse. I have a habit of talking a bit slower for foreigners as I'm used to just slowing down when talking to them. My dad is Cockney so I have to translate for people 😆
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Can guarantee that there are soo many accents, worst one is the Scottish one.... You'll be like... Mate what did you just say??
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