Having traveled for many years, I've developed the ability to understand 95% of what people say in English even if their pronunciation is off. A funny thing abo

Having traveled for many years, I've developed the ability to understand 95% of what people say in English even if their pronunciation is off. A funny thing about English is that actually the vowels aren't super important, except for in cases of ambiguity. Try it sometime. Yi cin riplic ill thi viwils in i sintinc with i singl viwil ind still indirstind. The problem is that most English speakers' ears aren't trained to expect unusual pronunciations, and it throws people off. This happens to me often when I speak Hungarian. Hungarians are not used to people learning Hungarian, so unnatural pronunciation can be really hard for them to follow.