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> I have more trouble understanding Indian, Australian than Americans, but it may be due that I watch a lot of American made content and am more used to their a
by CTDOCodebases 3y ago
> I have more trouble understanding Indian, Australian than Americans, but it may be due that I watch a lot of American made content and am more used to their accent.
As an Australian who has lived in Europe you are not alone. I had to change the way I talked in order for non native english speakers to understand what I was saying. Australians tend to cut the end of the words off and mix vowel sounds e.g "dinner" gets pronouced as din-na.
- strken 3y agoI have a friend who grew up in Australia, who's from a state capital while I'm from the country, and he once said that I sounded "more Australian" on the phone to my family than I do while taking to cosmopolitan Australians. I think a lot of us subconsciously suppress our accents and vocabulary when we're not around the exact dialect we grew up with.
- CTDOCodebases 3y agoI do this too but I think it works a little differently. I would say that we unconsciously tailor the way we talk to align ourselves socially with others.
- mjan22640 3y agoThats a common misconception among non native speakers, that the letters in the written form have some relation to how the word is pronounced.