can american can understand british accent easily?

Answer 1

I can understand british accent just fine, there are a few words here and there i might not know, but i can figure out what they mean from the rest of the sentence. I find the accent rather amusing, much like I find a southern, or texan accent amusing.

Answer 2

Yes, Americans can generally understand British accents, some of the British slang may throw us off a bit though - LOL.

There is nothing sexier than a woman with a British accent! Makes me melt every time!

Answer 3

The (?) British accent? There are dozens of British accents, there are several associated with Greater London alone. Most Americans have no trouble with the BBC accent, RP is a bit dicier, and the dialect of Yorkshire might as well be an entirely different language.

Answer 4

Yes, most American's understand the accents. Sometimes it's just the different words that we both use that cause some confusion on meanings of some things.

Answer 5

Yes, the British accent is generally easy to understand. Some of the regional accents (especially rural areas) can be hard to understand, even for ppl in the UK.

Answer 6

I'm pretty good with all accents, although there was once a man I met from Northern England and I was unable to understand a thing he said...
And there was one Scottish woman who a few words I wasnt able to make out as well.
Those are the only two I have ever ran into with that problem...

Answer 7

It depends on the person. Some northern accents are hard to understand, they pronounce the words in an old fashioned way (more like middle english than modern english).

Answer 8

Yes. Otherwise british movies, like Harry Potter, wouldn't be popular in the USA.

=) Most of us love British Accents. Wish I had one myself, actually.

Answer 9

A Welsh accent is by far the toughest for me to understand.

Answer 10

For the most part, except for some country accents like Geordie.