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"I live in Dublin and I can barely understand native Irish people either." People in Dublin itself are widely regarded to have a neutral-sounding, easily under
by Mediterraneo10 9y ago
"I live in Dublin and I can barely understand native Irish people either."
People in Dublin itself are widely regarded to have a neutral-sounding, easily understandable English. Indeed, Dubliners are conspicuously prominent in ESL teaching around the world for that reason. It is when one gets out of Dublin that accents begin to be more challenging for people accustomed only to mainstream US or UK pronunciations.
- s_kilk 9y agoVery much depends. Some of the middle-class neighbourhoods produce a fairly neutral accent, but most dubliners speak in a very heavy accent, arguably one of the heaviest in the country.
- linker3000 9y agoYou've clearly not been to Cork [edit..] or Kerry!
- ainiriand 9y agoMaybe in my particular case it is because my learning was from a USA source and I had little contact with UK/Irish/Scottish accents.