Who agrees with me ( non british people)?

Question

Whenever I hear someone from britain, the accent I have a very hard time understand them, sometimes I literary cant. even though they still speak "english"....they talk its like a different language

Answer 1

You write like you are writing a different language. (literally).

Do you have another first language, which would account for your having trouble with accents you are not used to?

Answer 2

I hear you I've been to Great Britain myself and I sometimes have a hard time understanding them. I like the British accent but I must speak honestly, some British accents sound like utter garbage. When I was in Great Britain I was talking to some people who reside their and we talked in a casual conversation. While they were talking I could not understand a word they were saying after five minutes.

They understood me but I could not understand them. It seemed like they lost their concertation in their enunciation of words.

If their is anyone who speak in an standard American accent be happy of your accent. I have been to different countries and lot of people have said the American accent is more understandable to them when they are speaking English.

Keep in mind I am not bashing on the British accent I find it nice, pleasent and easy on the ear. Britain is a small country with a variety of accents but their are certain ones that keep you hanging.

The Brits we see on television do not count because they are trained but you have to go the very heart of Great Britain to hear it.

Answer 3

That's probably because they come from either Scotland or the North of England, or maybe even Wales or Ireland, and you immediately assume that they are English.

Those particular accents from the British Isles are a little bit more difficult to grasp & understand for a "rookie", especially at first and for somebody who's never set foot in the U.K. before!

Don't worry!

You'll get used to it after a while.

I know I did!






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Answer 4

Someone from Britain could have any of dozens of accents - it's just like here - we have the New England, the Southern, the Midwestern, the Bronx, etc, accents. But in Britain, they have even more than we do. Some accents in Britain are quite thick, so much so that films sometimes have subtitles for characters speaking in that regions accent.

But generally, the British speak quite clearly, and most people can quite readily understand them as easily as they understand their own brand of English. So the accents you have found hard to understand are probably those that are in fact quite hard for even the Brits to comprehend.

Answer 5

As Winston Churchill said" The British and Americans are two peoples separated by a common language."

Answer 6

When they're in the same place as American english-speakers, absolutely. I turned on Doctor Who for the first time yesterday and I couldn't understand what anyone was saying for a minute or so. If you talk one-on-one with a British person, though, you start picking up their speech pattern and it shouldn't be so tough.

Answer 7

They have different accents. The ones like " Oy ave an elicopuh" are hard for me to understand. But the proper English is easy to understand.

Answer 8

I understand British accents better than some Americans.

Answer 9

Sometimes the word pronunciation is different, or they stress different syllables, but in general, I think the British accent is...sexy. I can understand people from Britain pretty well...

Answer 10

I haven't any problem understanding any of the accents. From stiff upper lip to gutter. Some people just haven't a different language ear.