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> surprisingly many people will not make any adjustments at all when you say "Please, if you speak more slowly I can understand" I've seen this too, so many ti
by alister 4y ago
> surprisingly many people will not make any adjustments at all when you say "Please, if you speak more slowly I can understand"
I've seen this too, so many times. If I'm speaking to someone who has trouble with English, I can automatically speak slower, enunciate better, and use simpler words and shorter sentences. But some people cannot adapt the way they speak. I don't think it's because they are unaccommodating or impatient. For some puzzling reason, they just can't speaker slower and simpler. Ironically they might instead speak a bit faster as you observed, or louder.
- jltsiren 4y agoCommunicating with people who don't know the language well is a skill you have to learn and practice. It's not something people can do by default. Especially in their native language. When you speak in your native language, the words may just come out automatically, without any effort. If you need to speak slowly, you have to be more deliberate and maybe even consider each word separately. If you don't remember that and just start speaking, you may end up speaking normally without even realizing that until it's too late.
- Izkata 4y agoNot sure about faster, but louder is what a lot of people do when they're trying to enunciate better, they just don't know how to do it right / what exactly they need to do. Basically they think they were mumbling.
- knorker 4y agoLouder can certainly help too. Especially when people have masks on. But slower helps more than louder.
- watwut 4y agoNative speakers have usually zero idea about what is simple word for foreigner. They go by what feels simple for them. But simple for foreigner means "the variant I found in my textbook" and natives have no idea.