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I see this happening regurarily and i have to say that it heavily depends on the native speakers nationality. Americans (at least if they don't speak some thic
by domano 5y ago
I see this happening regurarily and i have to say that it heavily depends on the native speakers nationality.
Americans (at least if they don't speak some thick dialect) are easy to understand due to movies etc.
Brits are ok enough, but some dialects get tricky.
Irish and scottish usually are not understood by the absolute majority of participants. I pride myself in my ability to understand spoken english (relative to my peers here in germany at least) but even for me it is nearly impossible to understand an irishman talking over zoom etc. with some random headset.
- xxpor 5y agoThat's fascinating. I know there's a lot of variation in how "strong" Irish accents can be, but when listening to someone from Dublin, sometimes it takes me, as a native English speaker with a slight Philadelphia accent, multiple sentences to realize they're not American. The giveaway will usually be a word beginning with voiceless th, like "three", which most Irish people pronounce like "tree". For example, the housing expert here: https://youtu.be/UwmxehOidaY?t=73 https://youtu.be/UwmxehOidaY?t=73 Edit: Ha, turns out that guy lived in LA until he was 11: http://www.karldeeter.com/about/ http://www.karldeeter.com/about/