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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6911 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 28 04 February 2010 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Except very uncommon, local (rural?) accents/dialects (of any "inner circle" variety), I don't have any particular difficulties. Broken English is another beast.
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| Silvance5 Groupie United States Joined 5496 days ago 86 posts - 118 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 10 of 28 04 February 2010 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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So if I end up teaching English in a foreign country like Spain or Germany, my southern American dialect isn't going to be terribly difficult to understand?
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| victor-osorio Diglot Groupie Venezuela Joined 5434 days ago 73 posts - 129 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian | Message 11 of 28 04 February 2010 at 5:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, if you were going to give classes to Latin Americans you would find that they are more able to understand you that they are to understand a British teacher. Because of the heavy influence that United States cultural products (like, for instance, movies and music) have in Latin America, the British accent is rather a strange one, and you would have troubles finding students who understand efficiently what a British speaker is saying.
In my case, I love United States' southern accent. What some people calls the "american twang"... for me sounds so nice. The only problem I can immagine you would find in countries like Spain or Italy, where vowels are pronounced loud and out of the mouth, is that they may found your accent I little bit "too obscure", that's like if you were speaking to yourself and not to others. Not a problem since part of learning English is to understand a complete different vowels systems, at least for those two particular countries. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6530 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 12 of 28 04 February 2010 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6472 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 13 of 28 04 February 2010 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Germany's students have to learn British English, not sure about Spain. Mixing the languages could lead to worse marks. For example, in essays, the assumption is that students should either spell everything according to British English rules or everything according to American English rules. If you spell some words this way and some words that way, half will count as a mistake.
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| Muz9 Diglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 5526 days ago 84 posts - 112 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Somali | Message 14 of 28 05 February 2010 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Rural British dialects, sometimes it even sounds completely alien to me.
For some odd reason rural American accents seems to be much easier to understand even very difficult ones such as US southern drawl accents. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Astrophel Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5734 days ago 157 posts - 345 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Cantonese, Polish, Sanskrit, Cherokee | Message 15 of 28 05 February 2010 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | ||
I have the same issue with German! For some reason, the Swiss German accent is very easy to understand, one of the easiest in fact (as long as it's just an accent and not full of regionalisms). It seems like they enunciate the important words more. I think the same thing may be true of US Southern accents, because some forms of it strongly stress the first syllable of every word. Others just speak very slowly which probably helps too. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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