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Just for context my SO is a nom-native English speaker. She speaks and understands English fine in person (her job involves dealing with demanding people from a
by lucaspiller 12y ago
Just for context my SO is a nom-native English speaker. She speaks and understands English fine in person (her job involves dealing with demanding people from all over the world, who often don't speak very good English), but whenever we watch something on Netflix or such she can't understand what's going on without subtitles. Films are a bit different from an online cause because of background noise, but don't forget how many technical talks you have probably watched that have terrible audio...
- acqq 12y agoShe would probably find the lectures much easier to understand than films. It's not only the background noise (the background music is worse) it's also that the voices in today films are often much quieter than the effects and that the acting and directing style for films favours "natural" sounding vocalizing vs. the one used on the theater stage (where ther's really care about pronouncing everything clear).